Kinder House (Auckland, N.Z.)

Stone house at 2 Ayr Street, Parnell, Auckland. Built for the Reverend John Kinder (1819-1903), designed by Frederick Thatcher (1814-1890) and built by the stonemason Benjamin Strange between 1856-1857.

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Thomas, Joan Elva 1922- :[Kinder House, Ayr St, Parnell]. [Auckland, J.E. Thomas, 1977?]

Date: 1977

By: Thomas, Joan Elva, 1922-

Reference: B-051-064-a

Description: Shows old two-storeyed stone house with lattice windows. No. 26 of a print run of 200. Title from notes supplied by artist. Reproduction of ink and wash drawing. Published at the same time as B-051-061/063. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Joan E. Thomas. 77.; Recto - bottom right - (In pencil): Joan E. Thomas 26/200 Kinder came to New Zealand in 1855. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 320 x 450 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright by the artist in 1986.

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Thomas, Joan Elva 1922- :[Kinder House, Ayr St, Parnell]. [Auckland, J.E. Thomas, 1977?]

Date: 1977

By: Thomas, Joan Elva, 1922-

Reference: B-051-064

Description: Shows old two-storeyed stone house with lattice windows. No. 25 of a print run of 200. Title from notes supplied by artist. Reproduction of ink and wash drawing. Published at the same time as B-051-061/063. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Joan E. Thomas. 77.; Recto - bottom right - (In pencil): Joan E. Thomas 25/200 Kinder came to New Zealand in 1855. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 320 x 450 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright by the artist in 1986.

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Buildings by architect Frederick Thatcher

Date: 1969-2002

From: Alington family :Photographs of Alington and Broadhead families

Reference: PA12-8655

Description: Slides of Frederick Thatcher's buildings include - Views of chapel, College of St John the Evangelist, Remuera, Auckland. St Mary's Church Parnell, Auckland. Kinder House, Parnell, Auckland. St Mary's Church, Karori, Wellington. All Saints' Church, Howick, Auckland. Title page of `A Few Words to Church Builders,' Cambridge Camden Society, 1841. Portrait of John Ruskin. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

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McWhannell album 25

Date: [Between 1980 and 1983]

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-q-278

Description: Album of photographs chiefly taken by Rhoda McWhannell. The first part of the album covers a trip Mrs McWhannell took overseas in 1980, travelling to Russia, England, China, India, Kashmir and South Africa. The travel images include scenes in St. Petersburg and Petrodvorets (Russia); with friends in Bramshott (England); in Peking, with Xie Feng, Professor of ornamental plants at Peking, Joy Lee, and Hazel Le Rougetel (writer of books on roses and gardens); scenes at a famous garden which includes bonsai trees, "Zhuo-Zheng Yuan" or "The Humble Administrator's Garden", Suchow (i.e. Suzhou) China; the Taj Mahal, Rajasthan, amd Fatehpur Sikri in India; scenes in Srinigar, including Lake Dal (Kashmir); and photographs of her brother (Bill McCurdie and sister-in-law Inga McCurdie and their daughter Kirsten taken in New Zealand in 1974), and Kirsten and her family in Kloof, South Africa. The following images are all in New Zealand, and are chiefly snapshots of friends and family, some identified, many who are not. They include groups visiting two houses, The Kinder House in Auckland, and The Elms in Tauranga. One sequence shows the 80th birthday celebrations for Dinah Strang held in a garden near Putararu. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey vinyl cover, embossed pattern of kowhai flowers, entitled `Photographs'; 30.5 x 36.5 cm