Places

Date: 1955 - 1965

From: [Ephemera of quarto size concerning housing, rental accommodation, housing standards and solutions]

By: P.T.Y. Homes Ltd; R G Mexted & Son (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-HOUSING-1960-01

Description: Booklet of floor plans and perspective drawings of 19 single-storey two- and three-bedroom houses. Models include: Cambridge, Conway, Cresta, Clyde, Cumberland, Caprice, Avalon, Amazon, Campbell, Apex, Avon, Astor, Albany, Argosy, Ascot, President, Prefect, Panorama, Prairie 'A'. Front cover stamped by the firm of R G Mexted & Son, 153 Lambton Quay, Wellington, licensed land agents & auctioneers Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Offset prints in booklet of 20 leaves, each 220 x 260 mm, stapled inside cover 250 x 283 mm. Provenance: Donated by Stan and Margaret Smith, Lower Hutt, in 2006.

Date: ca 1890s

Reference: PAColl-7486

Description: Three views of Sir William Fitzherbert's house in Lower Hutt. Photographer unidentified. Described on the reverse of the file prints as copy negatives from prints in the "small red album". Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-005053 to 005055 Quantity: 3 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1984 - 1986

From: James Beard & Company :[Architectural plans and drawings. 1960-1990s?]

Reference: Plans-2009-082-2240-001/040

Description: Includes multiple preliminary ideas for a floor plan, site plan, floor plans, cross-sections, elevations, site and services plan, foundation plan, details and electrical plans. Quantity: 40 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil on tissue paper and draughting paper, sizes varying from 297 x 420 mm to 420 x 595 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Group-1803 - Other material of the same provenance is housed at Ms-Group-1803, and in the Photographic Archive.

Date: [1880s-1900s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: PA1-o-167

Description: Family photographs, chiefly taken by William Hughes Field. Many of the views are unidentified, as are many of the portraits and group portraits. Some family members are identified, and a few taken in Botany Bay, Sydney, show Richard John Seddon and James Carroll speaking at a function. One image is a reproduction of a cartoon by William Hodgkins entitled `Mark Twain at the City hall Dunedin, on original sin (The watermelon story) ... A sketch from the stalls by W M Hodgkins' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green covers, 24 x 31 cm

Date: 1957 - 1958

From: Toomath Wilson Irvine Anderson, architects :[Architectural plans. 1955-1988].

By: Wilson, Derek John, 1922-2016

Reference: Plans-2005-057-1958

Description: Includes plans for a house at Section 31, designed by architect Derek Wilson. Also includes plans for a house for Mr & Mrs H A L Laing, designed by an architects' co-operative (T H Daniell, E N Inkster, T D McArthur, M H Wevers, and D J Wilson). Includes floor plans and elevations and construction details. Includes plans for a single storey wooden house with louvres in a dormer in the roof. No job number for these plans. Reference number reflects date of completion rather than job number. Quantity: 9 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo print, and pencil drawings on tracing paper, 560 x 760 mm.

Date: ca 1985

Reference: PAColl-4600

Description: Ten photographs of houses in Petone, five of bungalows and five of two-storey houses, most with cars parked outside. The houses were built around 1906. Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1955 - 1965

From: [Ephemera of quarto size concerning housing, rental accommodation, housing standards and solutions]

By: P.T.Y. Homes Ltd; Sutton & Stevens Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-HOUSING-1960-02

Description: Booklet of floor plans and perspective drawings of 14 single-storey two- and three-bedroom houses. Models include: Caprice, Avalon, Amazon, Campbell, Apex, Avon, Astor, Albany, Argosy, Ascot, President, Prefect, Panorama, Prairie 'A'. Front cover stamped by Sutton & Stevens Limited, licensed land agents, cnr Farish & Wakefield Streets, Wellington. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Offset prints in booklet of 20 leaves, each 220 x 260 mm, stapled inside cover 250 x 283 mm. Provenance: Donated by Helen Smith, Lower Hutt, in 2009.

Date: [Circa 1920s]

Reference: PA1-o-441

Description: Album of photographs taken circa 1920, by an unidentified photographer. None of the images have inscriptions; only a few places have been identified. Identifiable buildings and locations have been listed above. Many of the scenes are of a two-storey English cottage in the Arts & Crafts style, showing exterior and interior views. There is one of a viewing tower with windows and gables, possibly in the garden of the same house. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover, entited "Photo-graphs"; 22.0 x 17.5 cm

Date: 1980

From: Hill, Perry Martin, 1926-2005 :[Architectural plans. 1960-1990s]

By: Boag, Wallace, active 1980

Reference: A-408-179/187

Description: Includes floor plans, sections, and elevations of a two-storey cottage. Quantity: 9 plan(s). Physical Description: Photocopies, 210 x 297 mm.

Date: ca 1910s

Reference: PAColl-0751

Description: Photograph of a pitsawn cottage built after the "first burn" (as it is captioned on the reverse). A picket fence runs next to the house against which the photographer's young son is leaning. In the background are stumps of trees. Another photograph shows the same house with later additions such as a verandah. Photographer probably F C Bettjeman. F C Bettjeman's son became a bomber captain during World War Two. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1909

From: McNamara, G :Portraits of Sir Harold and Lady Beauchamp and James and Vera Bell's house

By: Sarony Studio (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-0674-3

Description: Exterior view of house designed and built in 1909 by Wellington arts and crafts architect, Walter Chapman-Taylor for James and Vera Bell. The house is constructed of wood, has many-paned casement windows, rough cast capped chimneys, and a marsailles tiled roof. Corrugated iron water tanks can be seen ranged against a tiled shed. The house is newly completed, and the garden is in the first stages of being developed. Photographed by Sarony Studio, Wellington in 1909. The interior doors of this house are braced by planks which have adzed-shaped sections cut into them. This was a trade mark of Walter Chapmen-Taylor. This photograph originally belonged to Andrew Bell, the son of Katherine Mansfield's sister Vera Bell (nee Beauchamp). This house burnt down in 1911 (info - Judy Siers). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20.5 x 15.4 cm, on cardboard mount

Date: ca 1970s

By: Fearnley, Charles James, 1915-1988

Reference: PAColl-4357

Description: Photographs of two two-storey houses (in use as offices) with elaborate fretwork on balconies and verandahs (exact location unknown). Close-up photograph of the fretwork detail on another verandah. A view down a row of houses with wooden balconies and verandahs and corrugated iron on the side of the nearest house. A sign for a bottle and flagon store is visible. Photographs of Newtown Community Centre on the corner of Colombo Street and Rintoul Street with signs for a legal advice centre and citizens advice bureau and Johsonville Community Centre with signs for Civil Defence Sector Headquarters, Johnsonville Pentecostal Fellowship and Johnsonville Advice Bureau. Photographer was Charles Fearnley. Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1992

From: Hill, Perry Martin, 1926-2005 :[Architectural plans. 1960-1990s]

By: Vorstermans Whitewell (Firm)

Reference: A-408-140/176

Description: Includes block plan, Name of architect noted on sheet at A-408-141 Quantity: 37 plan(s). Physical Description: Photocopies, sizes varying

Date: 1987

By: Randerson, Glenda Dorothy, 1949-; Tolan Print; Art Vision Ltd.

Reference: C-117-084-a

Description: A view from a domestic interior through a partly-open door to a verandah where a woman is sitting reading. She is also reflected in the door. A cat sits on the doorstep and can be seen from the back. The background shows a lightly forested area. Original oil measures 1200 x 1500 mm. Dated by promotional leaflet shelved with C-117-085 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 410 x 465 mm on sheet, 435 x 564 mm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Boyle, Fanny, 1861-1930

Reference: Pan-1464-F

Description: Panoramic view of a large two-storeyed house in the centre of the image, surrounded by a garden with flower beds and established trees set into sloping lawns. House partially hidden by trees. Steps up to a deep entrance porch on the right. Verandahs upstairs (with wrought-iron balustrade) and downstairs on the left. Decorative trim around gable in the centre. Trees include silver birch, conifers, cabbage trees, [and possibly a rimu? behind the house on the right]. Standard roses along a path slightly below the house in the right middle distance, and shaped rose beds amongst trees on the far left. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - R.P. Moore, 80 Manners St. Wgtn. (All rights reserved); Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Mrs A. Boyle. ChCh. 3-40x10; Marginal notes on negative - 2 2 2 2 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 129.1 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Kitto, Frederick William Middleton, 1861-1932

Reference: Pan-1451-F

Description: Panoramic view of a large two-and-a-half storeyed wooden house on a rise on the far right, above a water lily lake in the foreground. Established trees all around house and by the lake including cabbage trees, flaxes, weeping elm, conifers. Drive up to the house, decorative portico with deep arched balcony. House partially hidden by trees. Finials on gables. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-1448 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - A private garden. Christchurch N.Z. No. 532; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - R.P. Moore. 80 Manners St., Wgtn (All rights reserved); Marginal notes on negative - Mr Kitto. Ch.Ch. 3x40x10 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 120.8 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Potts, Geoffrey, 1852-1929

Reference: Pan-1561-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across sweeping lawns to a large two-storeyed wooden house. Deep portico at entrance on the left with balcony above. Arched porch with a row of large flower pots outside, beneath sleeping verandahs on the right. Circular driveway on the left, road visible at a lower level on the far right. Hedge along the back of the lawn on the right. Established trees in the background behind the house on left and right. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "Atawhai"; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Potts. Plston Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 117.2 cm

Date: 1925

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Baxter, Alexander, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-2304-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across a sweeping lawn with a circular drive around to a single-storeyed farmhouse in the centre. Highly decorative rounded arch over the entrance porch, bull-nosed verandah on three sides, decorative trim along the top of the verandah. Separate conservatory on the right with flowers visible through the panes. Several beds of roses, specimen trees in the lawn, climbers by the porch. Long line of macrocarpas across the background, paddocks on the far left. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "Currilea" 1925; Marginal notes on negative - A. Baxter. Oxford. Title "Currilea" 1925. 6 B&W. Print from cabbage trees to cabbage trees if possible Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 127.3 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Dewar, (Mr), active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1518-F

Description: Panoramic view looking up at a single-storeyed wooden house at the end of a drive on the left. Tiled roof, decorative trim along the verandah and in the gables. Steps up to a corner porch; lawns with flower beds and shrubs, and with established trees on the far left. Trees also on the far right beside a gate by the road. Climbing roses over an arch leading onto the lawn on the right. Three women wearing hats, with a picnic table for tea on the lawn near the house. Car parked by the house on the right (Number plate WN-3321). Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Dewar [?] Lr Hutt 3 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 116.8 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Mitchell, (Mr), active 1923-1928

Reference: Pan-1516-F

Description: Panoramic view looking up at an angled view of a large two-storeyed wooden house in the centre of the image. Concrete pillars along the verandahs on two sides. Three-sided bay set in a gable above the verandah, balconies on either side of the bay. Entrance from the left, deep sash windows around the verandahs downstairs. An unidentified man and woman are standing on the verandah. Manicured lawns, dog near the steps up to the house, drive up from the left, and gravel paths Dry-stone walls and steps up into an area of bush behind with a sloping paddock on the hill above on the far right. Lower Hutt township just visible between trees below on the far left. Plants in the garden include tree ferns. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Mitchell. Lower Hutt Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 123.7 cm