Boardinghouses - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: 1906

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton & McKay (Firm)

Reference: Plans-93-0271

Description: Shows ground floor and basement plans, sections and elevations of a two-storeyed building to be joined to an existing housee. The two new floors consist entirely of bedrooms and bathrooms. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 495 x 655 mm.

Date: circa 1890-1910

From: Shaw, G W :Photographs of and relating to the Wilson family ex Eketahuna

By: Wilson, Alex R, active 1900s; Shaw, Helen M G, active 1976

Reference: PA1-q-269

Description: Photographs of and relating to the Wilson family ex Eketahuna. William M Wilson was born in Glasgow in 1868, coming to New Zealand when 8 years of age. He was apprenticed to John Fitchett, coach builder in Wellington, then with other firms including Rouse & Hurrell. He was employed by Wilfred Woolf in Eketahuna in 1894, and subsequently bought his business, and entered the firm of Kibblewhite and Wilson. See Cyclopedia of New Zealand, Wellington Provincial District, Eketahuna. Includes dwellings; carriages; group outings and portraits; 1 of the Club Hotel of F D Pelling; 3 of the Ryan family at Tawa Flat; 1 of a house at Island Bay, 1 of a thatched whare at Plimmerton, a Ghuznee St boarding house; 2 relating to the Burnett family; 2 scenes in Manakau; 1 of D A Greenlees store; 2 of Rarotanga; 2 relating to the business of Lyon & Blair, steam printers and lithographers; 1 of a group outside a house in Eastbourne; 3 relating to the Manson family; 1 of a military camp in New Zealand in preparation for the South African War. Also includes a pocket on the inside back cover containing newspaper clippings, and a photocopy of a letter written by the donor Mrs Helen M G Shaw, which gives some information about the album. Inscriptions: Album page - Alex R Wilson, Central Terrace, Kelburne, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover; 28.5 x 20.5 cm

Date: [1942-1943]

By: Balsom, Muriel Doris Gwendoline, 1906-1984

Reference: MS-Papers-7884

Description: Notebooks kept by Muriel Doris Balsom while matron of the YWCA in Boulcott Street, Wellington, during WWII, listing catering and prices for entertainment done for WAAFs, soldiers' dances etc and staff duty lists Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - Notes on the Gaiety Club supplied by Ms Lindsay Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss and typescripts

Date: [1988-2000]

By: Wellington Women's Boarding House Inc

Reference: 2003-070

Description: Records of the Wellington Women's Boarding House Incorporated Society include minutes, miscellaneous papers, annual general meetings agendas and minutes, reports, building co-ordinator's reports, leases and other papers. Some of the women associated with the administration of the boarding house are entered under Name below; other women include Victoria Craig, Franyja Johnson, Ann Frood, Slava Johnstone, Mary Lithgow, Pauline Neale, Margaret Rowe, Jane Symmes, Helen Dawick, Carol Scott, Lorraine Ward, Peta Walker, Jane Fulcher, Rada Balakrishnan, Emma Alcock and Janet Weir Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 16 folder(s). 0.31 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1907 - 1940 - 1986

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

By: Thomas Turnbull & Son (Firm); Swan, Francis Herbert, 1885-1958

Reference: Plans-2007-030-1166/1189

Description: Shows floor plans and elevations of a two-storey wooden house. Includes photocopies of the original plans by Thomas Turnbull for a house for Mr William Watson (originals at Plans-80-619/621); photocopies of plans by Francis H Swan for conversion into flats for a later owner E Ward Esq; and measured drawings and sketch plans, mid 1980s. The house remains in existence, (by 2015), possibly as a student hostel, on the upper side of The Terrace, shortly before Salamanca Road Quantity: 24 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings and photocopies, sizes varying

Date: 1880 - 1920

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

Reference: Plans-2007-030-0491/0495

Description: Includes plans for a two-storey boarding house: ground floor plan and first floor plan, front and back elevations, roof plan, west elevation, and various sections. Also includes a roof plan of the hospital. Includes sections of the excavation plans for the boarding house, and floor plans, sections and elevation for a single-storey school. Quantity: 5 plan(s). Physical Description: Photocopies, 595 x 770 mm.

Date: [ca 1926-1931]

From: Kennedy, Wilfred Robert, 1896-1951 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-10273-2

Description: Includes quarantine order and release issued by Commonwealth of Australia, Quarantine Service; list of lodgings available to men in Wellington city; notes on taxation of bachelors; receipts from Wellington businesses; Johnsonville Town Board rate demand; insurance policies, etc Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1963-1979

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: 84-223-016/15/Pt1

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1884]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/1-025941-G

Description: From left to right: F W Devereux, T H Wyatt, Okiwi Brown and Nan Brown, outside the Browns' residence and boarding house in Rona Bay, Eastbourne. Photograph taken by William Williams, circa 1884. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1886-ca 1892]

From: Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-020674-G

Description: 'Limpsfield Lodge', a boarding house on Kent Terrace, Wellington. Photograph taken by Henry Wright circa 1886-1892. View includes the gate and driveway of the property. Source of descriptive information - From Library client. Formerly described as 18 Edge Hill, Mount Victoria. The name 'Limpsfield Lodge' was changed in the late 1890s to 'Marlborough House'. It remained a boarding house. When street numbers were introduced for this area, around 1900, the house was number 12 Kent Terrace. A numbering change in about 1910/11 resulted in Marlborough House becoming 20-21 Kent Terrace. Later the site of Halswell Lodge Hotel/Motel at 21 Kent Terrace. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1970

From: Packwood, George Earl Syvia W, 1916-1991: [Portfolio of nine ink studies of Petone buildings. ca 1970]

Reference: B-163-029

Description: Shows a two-storeyed wooden building with bay windows on the lower floor, finials on the roof ridges, and gothic pointed windows on the upper floor. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - G. Packwood Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on sheet, 297 x 420 mm.