An agent of Karori, Wellington, of the firm of Dickerson & Company, according to Wises Post Office Directory for 1908. He is referred to as C E Dickerson on the title of the Library's plans for alterations and additions to his house, dated 1909, but has signed as C H Dickerson. His house, "Brentwood," was on the corner of Flers Street and Karori Road. Died 15 December 1916, at a private hospital in Wellington, late of Messrs. Edmondson, Dickerson, Dickerson & Co., tweed merchants, aged 49 years.
Dickerson, Clifton Hendry, -1916
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Crichton & McKay :Alterations and additions, residence, Karori, for C E Dickerson Esq. ...
Date: 1906 - 1909
From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]
By: Crichton & McKay (Firm)
Reference: Plans-93-0272/0274
Description: Includes ground plan, upstairs plan, elevations and sections, details of beaten copper panels, decoration on architrave, leaded glass panels, fireplace decoration. The style of decoration is Arts and Crafts. The architects appear to have mistakenly changed the client's middle initial. Other sources (including his own signature) give his middle initial as H, not E Other Titles - C. H. Dickerson The decorative copper panels shown here were not reproduced exactly in the final execution - see three images in album at PA1-f-29, and other photographs at PAColl-2424, where the panels in the hall feature owls, a Scottish motif in the Arts & Crafts movement. The house "Brentwood" was demolished in about 1979 and the panels sold at Dunbar Sloane's to Malcolm Sheffield who installed them in his Oriental Bay property in the 1990s. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, sizes varying
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McKay, James Hector :Warehouse, Victoria Street, Wellington. J. Edmondson & Co. 8 May 1897
Date: 1897
From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]
By: McKay, James Hector, -1944
Reference: Plans-90-1138
Description: Foundation, ground floor and upstairs plans. A ground floor street-level office is shown; otherwise no other features, suggesting mostly storage space Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Approving signatures: John Edmondson, R. Spurway and C. H. Dickerson, dated 21 May 1897; top left, title. Bottom right, James Hector McKay, Architect, A. R. V. I. A., National Chambers, Grey St, Wellington, 8/5/97 Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and watercolour on wove paper, 497 x 669 mm
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Hall interior, Mr Dickerson's house Brentwood, Karori, Wellington
Date: Jan 1910
From: Hislop, Harold Stevens, d 1933 :Photograph albums
Reference: PA1-f-029-25-1
Description: Hall interior of Mr Dickerson's house 'Brentwood', Karori, Wellington, photographed January 1910 by Harold Stevens Hislop. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
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The Dickerson family, Brentwood, Karori, Wellington - Photograph taken by Harold Steven...
Date: October 1909
From: Hislop, Harold Stevens, d 1933 :Photograph albums
Reference: PA1-f-029-11-3
Description: The Dickerson family on the front steps of their home "Brentwood," Karori, Wellington. Charles H Dickerson is the man in the group, and Dorice is the girl leaning on his shoulder. Photographed by Harold Stevens Hislop in October 1909. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
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Brooke-White, Julia Stace, 1942-: Photographs
Date: Apr 1953-Dec 1954, 1962, 1964-1965, 1977-2010
By: Brooke-White, Julia Stace, 1942-
Reference: PA-Group-00421
Description: Collection comprises: Photographs of art nouveau joinery designed by Wellington architects, Crichton and McKay, in 1909 for C H Dickerson of `Brentwood,' Karori Wellington. Photographed by Julia Brooke-White for the Alexander Turnbull Library in November 1990. Photographs of Festivals of Pacific Arts 1992, 1996, 2000, 2008, taken by Julia Brooke-White. Prints and negatives for a book, `Every Kitchen tells a Story' written by Clare de Lore, and published by Harper Collins, Auckland, New Zealand, in 2000. Photographs (album, negatives and prints) relating to Raoul Island in the Kermadec Islands and of Department of Conservation volunteers and paid workers, mainly carrying out meteorological observations there, from 1953 to 2003. Includes negatives which show art works which were the basis of a series of wall plaques around the living room walls of the workers' hostel on Raoul Island. Photographs taken 1977-1987 in Fiji including events, boats, buildings, industries, people, and activities. Also includes photographs taken in New Zealand of personalities, Crescent Engineering business, 2003, and Nambassa Festival 1979. Three photographs of of the hall at `Brentwood' taken by Harold Hislop in 1910, and showing this joinery in it original position, can be found in album PA1-f-29, pages 24 and 25. In ca 1979 `Brentwood' was demolished. Joinery installed in 1909 was sold at Dunbar Sloans Auction House soon after. Malcolm Sheffield bought it and installed some of it in his Oriental Bay house in 1990 which is where these photographs were taken. Photographs of Raoul Island were taken while Julia Brooke White was there as a volunteer in 2001, and as a paid worker from 2002 to 2003. Accompanying material - See back file under 'Brooke-White, Julia Stace', in Photographic Archive for further details about this collection. Includes photocopies of articles about the Festivals, many of which feature Julia Brooke-White's photographs. Also includes notes on the Raoul Island wall plaques (including individual titles) which are the subject of the negatives. Title supplied by Library. Drawings and prints holds plans made by Wellington architects Crichton and McKay, for the joinery for the new `Brentwood' interiors. These plans include plans and elevations of the whole house as well. Drawings and Prints reference is Plans-93-0274. Quantity: 3866 colour original transparency/ies. 1228 photograph(s). 750 b&w original photographic print(s). 607 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strips comprising 2338 images. 42 colour original negative(s) 35mm strips comprising 62 images. 8 colour copy transparency/ies 4" x 5". 5 box(es) transparencies, negatives, prints, ephemera and papers. 4 b&w copy negative(s) 4"x 5". 4 digital print(s) 2 black and white, 2 coloured. 1 colour original photographic print(s). 1 album(s). Physical Description: Film negatives, transparencies, photographic prints Processing information: The 2020 and 2023 accessions are awaiting processing.