39. Australia: Twentieth Century Architecture, &C
Robert Haddon. Australian Architecture. Melbourne, no date [1908]. Bookplate of the late J L O'Brien. [Link]
(f) The Salon: Review of Architecture and the Applied Arts, I, 1 (1912) I, 2 (September-October 1912) XXXIV, 4 (September 1936)
Architectural Students Annual ['Being the Journal of the V.A.S.S. of the R.V.I.A.']. Melbourne 1908.
Architectural Students Annual ['Being the Journal of the V.A.S.S. of the R.V.I.A.']. Melbourne 1909.
Architectural Students Annual ['Being the Journal of the V.A.S.S. of the R.V.I.A.']. Melbourne 1913.
Bebarfalds Ltd. Safe Home Planning. Sydney, no date [1927]. Dated 1927 by Louella Kerr Lorraine Reed, catalogue 64 no 13 [1994].
(p) Best Overend. Shelter. Melbourne 1941].
Royal Victorian Institute of Architects. Journal. XXXI, 3 (July 1933); XXXIV, 4 (September 1936). The former issue is notable for Sir James Barrett's 'Housing and the Abolition of Slums'; L M Perrott's 'The Development of the Concrete House in England and America', and a photographic coverage of A & K Henderson's Shell Building, which is continued in a number of the advertisements.
Victoria. State Emergency Council for Civil Defence. Air Raid Precautions. Melbourne 1941.
Australia. Ministry of Post-War Reconstruction. Postwar Australia 3. You and Your Home. Melbourne 1944.
(f) Art and Design,1 [1949]. First and only number of an intended biannual publication edited by Sydney Ure Smith and Professor Joseph Burke. Includes articles on the Royal Melbourne Hospital; the Wormwalds factory at Waterloo, New South Wales; the TAA terminal at Essendon, by Arthur Baldwinson; a house at Killara by Sydney Ancher; John D Moore's house for Sir Frederick Jordan, Vaucluse; and the interior of the Sydney flat of 'the young Canadian architect Harry Seidler'.
Building, Lighting, Engineering, 25 October 1952, 24 November 1952, 25 February 1957. The last is the iissue which announces the Sydney Opera House competition result.
E J A Weller. Official Queensland Architecture and Building Year Book. Brisbane 1953.
(ppp) Cross-Section [publication of the Melbourne University Department of Architecture].2-26 (1 December 1952 - 1 December 1954). 28-31 (1 February 1925 - 1 May 1955). 32, 34 (1 July 1955; 1 August 1955). 36, 37 (1 October 1955; 1 November 1955). 39 (1 January 1936). 41-59 (1 March 1956 - September 1957). 62 (December 1957). 81-95 (1 July 1959 - 1 September 1960). 102-114 (1 April 1961 - 1 April 1962). 124-154 (1 February 1963 - 1 September 1966). Two copies of 128. 160-167 (1 February 1966 - 1 September 1966). Two copies each of 163, 164, 166. 170-190 (1 December 1966 - 1 August 1968) 192-200 (1 October 1968 - 1 June 1969). Due to misnumbering, both the January and February issues, 195 and 196, are labelled 196. 202-211 (1 August 1969 - 1 July 1970). Due to misnumbering, both the September and October issues are 203, and as this error is not subsequently corrected, the series continues one digit behind. 213-217 (1 August 1970 - February/March 1971). No 215 is October/November, and no 216 is December 1970/January 1971.
D C Ward et al. Guide to Victorian Architecture 1956. Melbourne 1956.
Donald Gazzard [ed]. Australian Outrage. Sydney 1966.
Harry Sowden [ed]. Towards an Australian Architecture. Sydney 1968
Architecture Australia, January / February 2001. Feature on the Melbourne Museum.
Architects
Royal Victorian Institute of Architects. Memorandum and Articles of Association. (Amended April 24th, 1922). Melbourne 1922 (1890). cf 1900 edition listed above.
[Ballantyne, J F W] account book 1922-5. This is an acount book printed for G F Ballantyne 'designer and builder', but used by his son J F W Ballantyne, who apparently took over the business because his father was dying of cancer. The accounts (normally only in carbon copy) run from August to December 1922, including the house 'Stokesay', cease for eleven months while Ballantyne junior was travelling oiverseas, and resume in December 1923.
Prospectus of the University of Melbourne Architectural Atelier, 1922, 1925.
Bulletin of the University of Melbourne Architectural Atelier, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938-9, 1939-40, 1940-1941, 1941-1942. Two copies of 1932.
(p) Kenneth R Green, '2nd Yr Notebook M.U.A. 1947' [student notebook, Melbourne University Architectural Atelier].
Adrian Ashton. An Architect Abroad. Sydney 1950.
Stephenson & Turner. Stephenson & Turner Architects [promotional brochure] Melbourne, no date [c1976]. Two copies.
Stephenson & Turner. An Appraisal of the Problems Related to Health Care Facilities and Notes on the Superadd Solution for Growth Oriented Community Hospitals. Melbourne, no date [c1976]
.A R Brooks & P A Latham [eds]. Architects of Australia 1985-1986. Images Australia, Glen Iris [Victoria] [1985].
Conrad Sayce
Conrad Sayce. Golden Buckles. Melbourne 1920. These Australian novels are of interest because the author was the joint winner with Rodney Alsop of the competition for Winthrop Hall, University of Western Australia, a matter surrounded by notoriety and litigation.
'Jim Bushman' [Conrad Sayce]. In the Musgrave Ranges. London, no date [1922].
'Jim Bushman' [Conrad Sayce]. The Valley of a Thousand Deaths. London, no date.
Conrad Sayce. The Splendid Savage. London, no date.
The University of Western Australia: the Hackett Memorial Buildings. Perth 1939.
Robin Boyd
Robin Boyd. Victorian Modern. Melbourne 1947. Two copies.
Robin Boyd. Australia's Home. Its Origins, Builders and Occupiers. Melbourne 1952. Four copies. One inscribed 'First copy - December '51. Robin Boyd' [presented to Brian Lewis prior to the ostensible publication date].
Robin Boyd. The Australian Ugliness. Melbourne 1961 [1960].
Robin Boyd. The Walls Around Us. Cheshire, Melbourne 1962.
Robin Boyd. The Puzzle of Architecture. Melbourne UP, Melbourne 1965.
Robin Boyd. Artificial Australia (the Boyer Lectures 1967). No place or date [c1967]
Robin Boyd. New Directions in Japanese Architecture. London 1968.
Robin Boyd. Living in Australia. Rushcutters Bay [NSW] 1970.
Ian Mackay, Robin Boyd, Hugh Stretton & John Mant. Living and Partly Living. Melbourne 1971 [1960].
Robin Boyd. The Great Great Australian Dream. Pergamon Press, Rushcutters Bay [NSW] 1972. Copy inscribed by Neil Clerehan, 1978.
Robin Boyd. Kenzo Tange. New York 1972.
(f) Architect [newsletter of the RAIA Victorian Chapter], 3, 17 (November-Decmber 1971). Robin Boyd obituary issue.
Harry Seidler
See Art and Design,1 [1949], above.
[Harry Seidler]. Harry Seidler. Sydney 1963.
Peter Blake. Architecture for the New World: the Works of Harry Seidler. Sydney 1973.
Harry Seidler. Planning and Building Down Under[Human Settlement Issues 2]. Vancouver 1978.
Philip Drew. Two Towers: Harry Seidler: Australia Square, MLC Centre. Cammeray [New South Wales] 1980.
Exhibitions
(p) Queensland Institute of Architects. Catalogue of Drawings. First Annual Exhibition. No place or date [?Brisbane c 1922-3]. Two copies. Dated on the basis of reference to the late G H M Addison [d 1922] and to H S MacDonald and CA Da Costa, who are not yet AQIA, which they both became in 1923.
V C Marshall. The 'Herald' Ideal Homes Exhiubition, Wirth's Park, Melbourne [catalogue] Herald, Melbourme 1934.
Ackmans Ltd. Decoration as Expressed by Ackmans Ltd. Ackmans, Melbourne 1923. Issued in connection with the Ackmans exhibits at the Ideal Homes Exhibition
Royal Victorian Institute of Architects. International Architectural Exhibition. [Melbourne] 1927.
Royal Victorian Institute of Architects. An Exhibition of Domestic Architecture. Melbourne 1928.
Institute of Architects of NSW. Historical, Educational & Annual Exhibition, Annual Brochure and Catalogue. Sydney 1930.
(p) Geelong Centenary Home Exhibition. Geelong 1938.
Royal Australian Institute of Architects, WA Chapter. Exhibition 1949 Catalogue. Perth 1944.
Royal Australian Institute of Architects. Architecture in Australia[exhibition at the RIBA, London]. London 1956.
Interior design and Decoration
R T Baker. The Australian Flora in Applied Art. Part I. The Waratah. Sydney 1915.
Adrian Feint, Mary Grey & Hera Roberts. The Charm of Colour in the Home, with Hints on Interior Decoration. Parramatta [New South Wales] no date [?c1935].
N S McDougall. Interior Decoration for Australians. Melbourne 1944.
Margaret Lord. Interior Decoration. 3rd ed, Sydney 1946.
Painting and Decorating for the Handyman. Melbourne, no date [?c 1947].
Dorothy Senior. Sixty Home Interiors. Sydney 1948.
French polishing, &c[a 'Domus' book]. Melbourne, no date [? 1950s].
B H Brindley. Australian Home Decorator and Painter. Sydney, no date [1950s].
Alex Smith. The Alex Smith Complete Home Furniture Maker Illustrated. Melbourne, no date [c 1955].
Donald Shaw. At Home with Colour [produced by Taubmans Paints] Sydney, no date [?c 1960].
TAA Office, Melbourne. Interior Sketches of TAA City Office Building - Melbourne. No place or date. Thirty-two page simulated sketchbook of interior perspectives plus two elevations and three exterior views.
Buildings and Building Types
(p) The National Bank of Australia Limited. Official Opening of the New Head Office Building 271-279 Collins Street, Melbourne. 27th October 1927. Sir John Grice in the Chair. Melbourne 1927. Includes an address by the architect, Anketell Henderson, with an architectural poem composed by a friend, and an address by Sir John Grice, a great supporter of architecture.
Souvenir ... Royal Exchange Assurance ... Sydney. Sydney 1937.
W A Ebsworth. St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne 1839-1939. Melbourne 1939.
(f) J D Morris. Report of the Royal Commission on the Hobart Gaol. Hobart 1943.
J H Cumpston & C M Heinig. Pre-School Centres in Australia. Canberra 1944.
The Art Gallery Story: the Benalla Regional Art Gallery. No place or date [Benalla 1975].
Parliament House Canberra [conditions of competition &c]. Canberra 1973. This consists of a blue box containing the conditions themselves in two volumes, the red-covered report of 1974 on siting &c, three folded drawings, an ærial photo, a map, 23 slides, undertaking and declaration, and a receipt for the $50 entry fee.
Edmond & Corrigan et al. State Library and Museum of Victoria: a Report on the Commissioned Proposal. [Melbourne] 1976.
Ancher Mortlock Murray & Woolley Pty Ltd. University of Melbourne Master Plan Report 1970. University of Melbourne, Melbourne 1971.
University of Melbourne Draft Master Plan Report 1981. University of Melbourne, Melbourne 1981.
Museum of Victoria at Carlton: Architectural Preliminary Brief. Melbourne 1994.
Houses and Housing
S U Smith et al [eds]. Domestic Architecture in Australia [special number of Art in Australia]. Sydney 1919.
Real Property Annual, 22 (December 1925).
Australian Home Beautiful 22 (December 1925); IV, 1 (12 January 1926); VI, 1 (2 January 1928) VI, 12 (1 December 1928); VII, 1 (January 1929); VIII, 5 (1 May 1930;) VIII, 7 (1 July 1930); VIII, 10 (1 October 1930); IX, 1-6 (1 January - 1 June 1931); IX, 8 (1 August 1931); IX, 9 (1 September 1931); IX, 12 (2 December 1935;) XIII, 11 (2 November 1931); XVIII, 9 (1 September 1939); 'XVIII' [XIX], 9 (2 September 1940); XX, 1 (January 1941); XXI, 1 (January 1942); XXI, 2 (February 1942); XXI, 3 (March 1942); XXI, 6 (June 1942); XXII, 4 (April 1943); XXIII, 1 (January 1944); [XXIII, 11] (November 1944); XXIII, 12 (December 1944); XXIV, 3 (March 1945); XXIV, 8 (August 1945); XXIV, '9' [10] (October 1945); XXIV, '10' [11] (November 1945); XXIV, 12 (December 1945) [two copies]; XXV, 1-11 (January - November 1946;) XXVI, 2-12 (February - December 1947); XXVII, 1 (January 1948); XXVII, 2 (February 1948); XXVII, 4-11 (April - November 1948); XXVII, 11 (November 1948) plus extra copy; XXVIII, 1-5 (January - May 1949); XXVIII, 7-8 (July- August 1949); XXIX, 1-[10] (January - October 1950); XXIX, 12 (December 1950); XXX, 1- 5 (January - May 1951); XXX, 7 (July 1951); XXX, 9-12 (September-December 1951); XXXI, 4-8 (April - August 1952); XXXII, 7 (July 1953) XXXII, 9 (September 1953); XXXII, 11 (November 1953); XXXIII, 1-4 (January - April 1954); XXXIII, 7-8 (July - August 1954); XXXIII, 11-12 (November - December 1954); XXXIV, 2 (February 1955); XXXIV, 5-7 (May - July 1955); XXXIV, 9-10 (September - October 1955); XXXV, 2-4 (February-April 1956); XXXV, 6-8 (June - August 1956); XXXV, [10]-11 (October-November) 1956); XXXVI, 1-2 (January-February 1957); XXXVI, 5-7 (May-July 1957); XXXVI, 12 (December) 1957); XXXVII, 5 (May 1958); XXXVII,10 (October 1958); XXXVII, 11 (November 1958); XXXVII, 12 (December 1958); XXXVIII, 5 (May 1959); XXXVIII, 6 ( June 1959); XXXVIII, 7 (July 1959); XL, 9 (September 1961.)
Fourth Victoria Permanent Building Society. Own Your Own Home. Melbourne, no date [c 1935].
R A Gardner [ed]. Housing for Health [Vital Post-War Jobs No.2]. Melbourne 1943 [1942].
A A S Chapman. Building or Buying your Post-War Home. Sydney, no date [c 1945].
Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Housing Loans, Minimum Construction Standards, Timber. Melburne 1947.
Kenneth McConnel. Planning the Australian Homestead. Sydney 1947.
Walter Bunning, W H Ifould, G R McKerihan & Sidney J Luker. The Housing Problem in Australia [papers read at the Winter Forum of the Australian Institute of Political Science, Wollongong 1947]. Sydney 1947.
J W Drysdale. Climate and House Design. Sydney 1948.
J W Drysdale. Designing Houses for Australian Climates. Sydney 1952.
[p] Tribilt Pty Ltd, Catalogue of Triton Houses, &c. Tribilt, Melbourne 1956.
[p] Tribilt Pty Ltd, Catalogue of Houses by Tribilt, &c. Tribilt, Port Melbourne 1958.
[p] Tribilt Pty Ltd, Anywhere in Victoria New South Wales and South Australia,&c. Tribilt, Port Melbourne 1973. [Link]
Steven Kalmar. You and your Home. Sydney, no date [1950s].
W Phelan & Sons Pty Ltd. You too ... will be proud of your Phelan 'Ready-Built' Home. Maryborough [Victoria], no date [?c1958].
H E Bolte et al. Heart's Desire. Melbourne, no date [c 1960]. This relates to the bizarre project of building a dream home temporarily on the roof of a carpark in Exhibition Street, Melbourne, to raise money for the National Heart Campaign. Building materials and services were donated to create a house designed by Bernard Evans, with a featuristic roof line, and with an incongruous collection of antique furniture displayed inside.
Australian House and Garden, December 1965.
Bruce Judd & John Dean [eds]. Medium Density Housing in Australia. Canberra 1983.
Commonwealth War and Post-War Housing
(p) Commonwealth War Workers Housing Trust. Munition Workers may rent a Wartime Cottage. Melbourne, no date [early 1940s].
Commonwealth Housing Commission. Final Report. Canberra 1944.
Housing. Four pamphlets bound together, severally subtitled: 1. The Problem; 2. Technical Answers; 3. Administration; and 4. The Social Answer Department of Post-War Reconstruction]. No place or date [1944].
Australia, Department of Labour and National Service, War Housing Division. Wartime Housing: Bulletin No. 1, October 1944 Bulletin No. 2, December 1944 Bulletin No. 3, January 1945 Bulletin No. 4, March 1945 Bulletin No. 5,May 1945 Bulletin No. 6, July 1945; continued as:
Australia, Department of Works and Housing, Directorate of Housing. Australian Housing: Bulletin No. 7, December 1945 Bulletin No. 10, September 1946 Bulletin No. 11, March 1947 Also another set of bulletins 1-7, bound together, and an additional single copy of no 4.
(p) Beaufort Division, Dept. of Aircraft Production. Beaufort Homes. Melbourne 1946.
Australia, Department of Works and Housing. Australian Housing [reprint of Bulletin no.7]. Melbourne 1947.
Nelson Lemmon [Minister for Works and Housing, Australia]. About Housing. Canberra 1947.
(p) Beaufort Division, Division of Aircraft Production. Beaufort Homes. No place or date [Melbourne 1947].
RVIA Age Small Homes Service
[Letters B to J have been assigned to the leaflets to assist in indexing them. Not all the dates given for the designs appear to be accurate].
(p) [B] Royal Victorian Institute of Architects, Small Homes Service. How to build a Home this Year - Small Homes Melbourne [c 1949: dated designs are from 30 July 1948 to 23 July 1949, though a reference to Perrott, Concrete Houses, as being published 25 years earlier would suggest 1950]. Plans labelled B25, B28, T11, T14, T22, T23, T24, T25, T27, T34, T36, T37, T211, T212, T213, T214, T215, V11, V22, V23, V27, V31, V32, V33, V34, V38, V39, V42, V210, V211, V212, V215, V217, V311, V312.
(p) [C] Royal Victorian Institute of Architects, Small Homes Service. Architects' Plans. Melbourne, no date [c 1959: dated designs are 29 November 1948 to 20 April 1949, but for an outlier of 1957]. A fold-out sheet with sixteen page sides. Plans labelled B32, T110, T117, T217, T240, T258, T262, T268, T281, T288, T292, T294, T295, T317, T318, T325, T329, T2100, T2101, T2105, T2106, T2107, T2108, T2109, V27, V233, V253, V254.
(p) [D] Royal Victorian Institute of Architects, Small Homes Service. 24 Plans. Melbourne, no date [Goad dates it to October1949: designs are dated 31 November 1948 to 7 September 1949, though a 1953 press cutting is enclosed]. A fold-out sheet with sixteen page sides. Plans labelled T13, T19, T17, T225, T234, T236, T238, T244, T248, T249, T250, T251, T255, T256, T310, T312, T314, T315, V27, V234, V239, V240. Two copies.
(p) [E] Royal Victorian Institute of Architects, Small Homes Service. 24 Plans 1/6. Melbourne 1954. A fold-out brochure of sixteen page sides. Plans labelled T19, T120, T336, T345, T347, T348, T349, T2122, T2123, T2124, T2125, T2129, T2131, T2133, T2134, T2137,T2141, T2152, V210, V242, V257, V258, V327, V328, V346.
(p) [F] Royal Victorian Institute of Architects, Small Homes Service. 22 House Plans. Melbourne, no date [c 1958: the builk of the dated designs are between February 1956 and June 1958, though three are of 1948 and one of 1950]. A fold-out brochure, sponsored by Hardie's Fibrolite. Plans labelled T18, T113, T122, T370, T373, T374, T375, T376, T377, T378, T379, T731, T2148, T2155, T2156, T2158, T2159, T2161, T2162, T2163, T2164, T2165.
(p) [G] Royal Victorian Institute of Architects, Small Homes Service. 24 Plans for Modern Houses.['Folder Number 6: January 1956'] Melbourne 1956. A fold-out sheet with sixteen page sides, some full-page and some in columns. Plans labelled T18, T121, T270, T279, T316, T338, T347, T357, T358, T360, T361, T2143, T2150, T2151 T2152, T2153, T2154, T3110, V215, V229, V241, V247, V250, V251, V265, V314.
(p) [H] Royal Victorian Institute of Architects, Small Homes Service. Holiday Designs. Plan Folder No 44. Melbourne, no date [c1975: though there are three designs of 1960 all the others are undated and probably later, as the date attributions cease in 19609. The folder number puts it closer to I than to G], T124, T126, T274, T2167, T2168, T3100, T3102, T3109, T3110, T3117, T3140, T3141, T3149, T3170, T3174, V46, V280.
(p) [I] Royal Victorian Institute of Architects, Small Homes Service. Three Bedroom Designs. Plan Folder No 46. Melbourne 1977. A fold-out sheet with sixteen page sides. Plans labelled V379, V386, V3111, V3116, V318, V3140, V3142, V3145, V3147, V3149, V3161, V3163, V3177, V3181, V3189, V3193, V3194, V3195, V3199.
(p) [J] Royal Victorian Institute of Architects, Small Homes Service. Four Bedroom Designs. Plan Folder No 48. Melbourne 1977. A fold-out sheet with sixteen page sides. Plans labelled V410, V415, V427, V429, V430, V433, V435, V437, V438, V440, V441, V443, V444, V445, V447, V451, V452, V472, V474.
Royal Victorian Institute of Architects, Small Homes Service. Home Builders Handbook '57. Melbourne 1957.
AGE SMALL HOMES DESIGNS: INDEX
The design number is followed in square brackets by the leaflet, if any, in which it appears, designated by letter B to J, then a Gdf number, which is the figure number as illustrated in Philip Goad, 'The Small Homes Service of the R.V.I.A.' (BArch research report, Melbourne University 1984) the name of the architect, date as recorded by Goad, and then any special note on the design. The dates recorded by Goad are not always the original ones, as they sometimes post-date the leaflet in which the design appears. The letter K refers to as leaflet which is not in my collection but at the Museum of Victoria: Royal Victorian Institute of Architects, Small Homes Service. Holiday Homes. Plan Folder 30. Melbourne, no date [1960s]. https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/2095627
SOLID BRICK B25 [B: Gdf 9: Best Overend 3.12.47]; B28 [B: J F D Scarborough 4.8.48]; B32 [Gdf 21: Robin Boyd 11.3.52].
TIMBER T11 [B: S P Calder 3.9.47]; T13 [D: R W Hodgson 6.7.49]; T14 [B: Gdf 38: Robin Boyd 24.12.47]; T17 [D: R W Hodgson 20.7.49]; T18 [F,G,K: Gdf 18, 39: Robin Boyd 11.12.48]; T19 [D,E: F T N Jessup 17.5.50]; T22 [B: Gdf 12: R W Hodgson 10.10.47]; T23 [B: George Mitchell 20.8.47]; T24 [B: R W Hodgson 23.7.47]; T25 [B: K Pethebridge 20.8.47]; T27 [B: A Hunt 6.8.47]; T34 [B: Frank Bell 30.7.47]; T36 [B: R A Spence]; T37 [B: J W Rivett 17.3.48]; T40 [K: Gdf 26 Peter McIntyre 28.3.55 curved timber trusses]; T43 [K] T110 [C,K]; T113 [F,K: J R Tovey 18.7.50]; T114 [K: Gdf 41: Neil Clerehan 26.12.50]; T115 [K]; T117 [C,K: Gdf 43: Horace Tribe 26.12.51]; T120 [E: Gdf 44: S C G McConnel 1953]; T121 [G,K: Gdf 47: Neil Clerehan 1955]; T121 [G: Neil Clerehan 26.9.55] T122 [F: Gdf 42: Neil Clerehan 24.2.56] T124 [H] T126 [H] T210 [B] T211 [B: R W Hodgson 8.10.47] T212 [B: Gdf 17: R W Hodgson 29.10.47] T213 [B: Gdf 17: S P Calder 7.1.48] T214 [B: Robin Boyd 18.2.48] T215 [B]; T216 [Gdf 36: J W Rivett 17.8.47]; T217 [C: S P Calder 29.11.48]; T225 [D: Mockridge, Stahle & Mitchell 31.11.48]; T226 [Gdf 29: Neil Clerehan 24.11.48]; T230 [Gdf 11: S C G McConnel 9.2.49]; T234 [D: Robin Boyd 11.5.49] T236 [D: R W Hodgson 22.6.49] T238 [D: Neil Clerehan 27.4.49] T240 [C: Kevin Pethebridge 20.4.49]; T242 [D: Peter Newell 18.5.49]; T244 [D: Robin Boyd 15.6.49]; T248 [D: Gdf 18: Neil Clerehan 13.7.49]; T249 [D: Robin Boyd 17.8.48] T250 [D: H Lowenstein 10.8.49] T251 [D: M Stott 27.7.49] T255 [D: R D Jones 31.8.49]; T256 [D: Robin Boyd 7.9.49]; T258 [C]; T259 [Gdf 17: S P Calder 19.10.49]; T262 [C: Gdf 40: Robin Boyd 21.12.49]; T264 [Gdf 29: R F McDonald 15.3.50]; T268 [C: Robin Boyd 31.5.50]; T274 [H] T278 [G: ? 7.11.50] T279 [G: Neil Clerehan 31.10.50] T280 [Gdf 12: Neil Clerehan 14.11.50] T281 [C]; T288 [C]; T292 [C: Gdf 15 Neil Clerehan: 18.3.51]; T294 [C: Gdf 15: ? 11.12.51]; T295 [C: ? 12.6.51;] T310 [D: Gdf 10: Robin Boyd 15.12.48] T312 [D: C S Dainton 7.6.49] T314 [D: C S Dainton 3.8.49] T315 [D: R A Spence 7.9.49]; T316 [G: R W Hodgson]; T317 [C]; T318 [C]; T325 [C]; T329 [C]; T329 [C]; T336 [E: ? 2.3.53]; T338 [G: Neil Clerehan 27.4.53]; T343 [Gdf 56 Peter McIntyre]; T345 [E: Gdf 14 L Bawden]; T346 [E: 26.4.54 1953 compt entry] T347 [E, G: Gdf 15: 1.3.54 1953 compt entry] T348 [E: Parry & Paxton 2.11.53] T349 [E: 15.3.54 1953 compt entry]; T357 [G: Gdf 13 Montgomery, King & Trengrove 6.6.55]; T358 [G: Neil Clerehan 18.7.55]; T360 [G: Neil Clerehan 29.8.65 T361 [G: Neil Clerehan 17.10.55] T367 [Gdf 22] T370 [F: Gdf 22 Bernard Joyce 15.7.57] T372 [Gdf 18, 29: Neil Clerehan 5.8.57] T373 [F: Gdf 14: R J Bonaldi 23.12.57] T374 [F: Neil Clerehan 27.1.58] T375 [F: Neil Clerehan 27.1.58]; T376 [F: Neil Clerehan 31.4.58]; T377 [F: Neil Clerehan 26.5.58]; T378 [F: Neil Clerehan 21.7.58] T379 [F: Richards & Brayne 23.6.58] T380 [Gdf 11: ? 18.8.58] T381 [Gdf 11: ? 1.9.58] T382 [K] T383 [Gdf 16: 8.9.58] T384 [Gdf 50: Neil Clerehan 13.10.58]; T389 [K: Gdf 16: Neil Clerehan 1.6.59] T391 [K] T393 [Gdf 31 Neil Clerehan 13.7.59] T394 [Gdf 31: ? 27.7.59] T731 [F] T2100 [C: Gdf 29 Robin Boyd 18.9.51] T2101 [C: Gdf 24, 29: Kevin Borland 5.2.52 'Fly-Away Roof']; T2103 [Gdf 51: Robin Boyd 25.10.51 Sunshine House]; T2105 [C]; T2106 [C]; T2107 [C]; T2108 [C: Gdf 22: Robin Boyd 19.2.52]; T2109 [C: Gdf 33: Robin Boyd 26.2.52]; T2122 [E: ? 22.2.54 competition entry 1953] T2123 [E: competition entry 1953] T2124 [E: Gdf 50: Neil Clerehan 5.4.54] T2125 [E: Gdf 12, 54: R D Jones 8.3.54] T2126 [Gdf 16, 53: Montgomery, King & Trengrove 28.9.53]; T2128 [Gdf 25, 57: Kevin Borland 19.10.53, 1953 compt entry]; T2129 [E: ? 16.9.56, 1953 compt entry] T2130 [Gdf 52: K G Hardcastle: 5.10.53] T2131 [E: 18.1.54 ?, 1953 compt entry T2133 [E: L G Bawden 16.11.53]; T134 [E]; T2137 [E: Robin Boyd 14.12.53]; T2138 [Gdf 45 John & Phyllis Murphy 4.1.54]; T2141 [E: ? 22.3.54, 1953 compt entry]; T2143 [G: Gdf 30 Neil Clerehan 21.11.55 Fibrolite House]; T2147 [Gdf 46: Neil Clerehan 27.12.54]; T2148 [F: Neil Clerehan 14.3.55]; T2150 [G: ? 4.7.55]; T2151 [G: Neil Clerehan 25.7.55]; T2152 [E, G: ? 18.8.54]; T2153 [G: Neil Clerehan 19.5.55]; T2154 [G: ? 14.11.55]; T2155 [F: Neil Clerehan 5.3.56]; T2156 [F: Neil Clerehan 26.3.56]; T2157 [Gdf 14: Neil Clerehan 14.5.56]; T2158 [F: Neil Clerehan 6.8.56]; T2159 [F: Gdf 10 Mockridge, Stahle & Mitchell 27.8.56]; T2161 [F: Neil Clerehan 17.12.56];T2162 [F: Neil Clerehan 14.1.57]; T2163 [F:? 2.12.57]; T2164 [F,K: Neil Clerehan 21.4.48]; T2165 [F: Neil Clerehan 28.4.58]; T2167 [H,K: G Campbell 24.10.60]; T2168 [H];T2186 [H]; T3100 [H,K: Neil Clerehan 23.5.60]; T3102 [H,K: G Campbell 10.10.60]; T3108 [K]; T3109 [H,K]; T3110 [H,K]; T3117 [H]; T3138 [H]; T3140 [H]; T3141 [H]; T3145 [H]; T3149 [H]; T3170 [H]; T3174 [H]; TV46 [H].
BRICK VENEER V1 [B]; V22 [B]; V23 [B]; V27 [B]; V31 [B]; V32 [B]; V33 [B]; V34 [B]; V38 [B]; V39 [B: J W Rivett 7.7.48]; V42 [B]; V46 [H]; V210 [B, E: Gdf 21: Robin Boyd 22.11.47 'Solar House']; V211 [B, E: R W Hogson 31.12.47]; V212 [B: R Bath 10.9.47]; V215 [B,G: J W Rivett.17.8.47]; V217 [B: J W Rivett 25.2.48]; V220 [Gdf 9: R S Demaine 10.3.48]; V229 [G: R W Hodgson 2.2.49]; V231 [B: R W Hodgson 19.1.49]; V232 [Gdf 10: Neil Clerehan 30.3.49]; V233 [C: Neil Clerehan 16.2.49]; V234 [D: Mockridge Stahle & Mitchell 2.3.49]; 239 [D: R W Hodgson 29.6.49]; V240 [D: R W Hodgson 24.8.49]; V241 [C,D,G: Robin Boyd 6.4.49]; V242[E]; V247 [G: C S Dainton 7.1.50]; V250 [G: ? 10.10.50]; V251 [G: ? 4.12.51]; V253 [C: ? 24.5.51]; V254 [C: ? 9.10.57]; V256 [Gdf 55: Slawik & Joyce / Bernard Joyce 26.10.53]; V257 [E]; V258 [E: ? 7.12.53 competition entry 1953]; V265 [G: ? 11.7.55]; V271 [Gdf 31: Neil Clerehan 16.12.57: Victor Plasterboard Insulwool House]; V280 [H]; V311 [B: George Mitchell 21.1.48]; V312 [B: George Mitchell 21.1.48]; V314 [G: R A Spence]; V327 [E: R Hocking 26.6.61]; V328 [E: ? : competition entry 1953]; V335 [Gdf 13: ? 15.4.47]; V346 [E]; V359 [Gdf 9: Neil Clerehan 5.12.60]; V372 [K]; V379 [I]; V386 [I]; V410 [J]; V415 [J]; V427 [J]; V430 [J]; V433 [J]; V435 [J]; V437 [J]; V438 [J]; V440 [J]; V441 [J]; V443 [J]; V444 [J]; V445 [J]; V447 [J]; V451 [J]; V452 [J]; V472 [J]; V474 [J]; V3111 [I]; V3116 [I]; V3138 [I]; V3140 [I]; V3142 [I]; V3145 [I]; V3147 [I]; V3149 [I]; V3161 [I]; V3163 [I]; V3177 [I]; V3181 [I]; V3189 [I]; V3193 [I]; V3194 [I]; V3195 [I]; V3199 [I],
House designs and Examples
Reginald A Prevost. Australian Bungalow and Cottage Home Designs. Sydney 1912.
Book of Australian Bungalows. Sydney, no date [c 1920]. This is an expanded version of Prevost by the same publisher, the NSW Bookstall Co, but it acknowledges neither this fact nor the authorship of Prevost. Whilst the first 51 designs are presented in a more up-to-date drawn technique, the remaining 39 are in the wash technique of the earlier book, and at least 29 are identical or modified only in minor details of presentation, such as the sky. For the assistance of future scholars, the following is the correlation of illustrations between the later and the earlier book, not necessarily complete: 53:21, 54:14, 55:9, 56:2, 57:7, 58:10, 60:3, 61:4, 62:20, 63:16; 64:22, 65:29, 66:45, 67:13, 68:43, 69:50, 70:32, 71:49, 72:33, 78:52, 79:54, 80:67, 81:70, 82:61, 83:62, 86:65, 88:66, 89:72, 90:75.
Leslie M Perrott. Concrete Homes. Melbourne no date [1925].
Australian Homes. Melbourne 1927. This is designated 'Volume Number 1', but does not appear to have been followed by any further issues. It is a promotional exercise by Barlow & Hawkins, whose buildings are exclusively illustrated.
(p) Queensland, State Advances Corporation, Designs for Dwellings. Brisbane 1935.
(p) Queensland, State Advances Corporation. Designs for Dwellings. Brisbane 1938.
James Hardie & Coy. Ltd. Fibrolite Homes. Sydney 1936.
James Hardie & Coy. Pty. Ltd. Fibrolite Homes. Sydney 1937.
(p) Wunderlich Durabestos Homes. Sydney, no date [1937].
L A Redgrave. Little Australian Bungalows. Sydney 1937.
F G Goss. Modern Australian Home Designs. Sydney, no date [c 1930s].
F G Goss. Modern Australian Home Designs. Sydney, no date [c 1940].
[G B Leith] Designs for Homes under Credit Foncier Conditions [the State Savings Bank of Victoria]. No place [Melbourne] 1940.
[G B Leith] Design Book: Housing Loan Conditions. Melbourne 1941.
J D Moore. Home Again! Sydney 1944.
(p) New South Wales, Forestry Commission. Beautiful Homes of Wood. Sydney 1944.
G R Hann [ed Florence Taylor]. The Book of 150 Low Cost Homes. 3rd ed, Sydney 1945 [1944]
(p) The Sun Post-War Homes. Melbourne, no date [c 1945].
(p) Co-operative Building Societies Gazette (Sydney)
Walter Bunning. Homes in the Sun. Sydney 1945.
W W Sharp. Your Post-War Home. Sydney 1945.
N J Jenkins. The Australian House. Sydney, no date [?c 1945].
Eve Guy [ed]. Home Plans. No place or date [c 1946]. Published by the Australian Women's Weekly, and including American plans and others by the local architects Sidney E Ancher, Trevor Bain, Ronald Bath, Robert C Coxhead, Edgar Gurney, Albert Hanson, Samuel Lipson, John E W Mason, John P Mockridge, Edwin R Orchard, and L E Rowell. One of Mockridge's designs bears the date '9/45'.
W Watson Sharp. Calvalcade Houses. Sydney 1946.
The Homemaker's Book of Plans. Melbourne 1946.
R L Spooner & C T Eeles. Practical Homes. Sydney 1947.
Associated General Publications Pty Ltd. Sixty Home Plans. 3rd ed, Sydney 1948 [1946].
(p) James Hardie & Coy Pty Ltd and Wunderlich Ltd, Prize-Winning Designs for your Post-War Asbestos-Cement Home. Hardie & Wunderlich, South Melbourne, no date [c 1948]. Includes an entry by Joy, Pethebridge, Boyd and Jessup.
(p) Modern Home Building Advisory Service. The 50 Best Practical Homes of 1948. Melbourne, no date [c 1948]. Two copies [Link]
George Beiers. Houses of Australia. Sydney 1948.
John P Brogan. 101 Australian Homes. Sydney, no date [c 1950].
(p) Our Home (Sydney) 18 April 1950
(p) Wunderlich Limited. Designs of Small Homes. Sydney 1950. [Link]
(p) Wunderlich Limited. Designs of Small Homes. South Melbourne 1956. [Link]
H L Divola. Truth Home Plan Book. Sydney, no date [c1951]. 48 house designs which had appeared in Sydney Truth in 1950.
(p) Small Homes Service (N.S.W.), Homes for Every Taste (Royal Australian Institute of Architects (N.S.W. Chapter) & Australian Home Beautiful, Sydney, no date [1954])
(p) Beryl Guertner [ed]. Book of 100 House Plans [No 3 of the 'Practical Planning' series]. No place or date [Sydney c 1955]. Published by Australian House and Garden, and including 55 designs by W Watson Sharp, and others by Lionel Barton, A N Bolot, Eva Buhrich, H Dalton Clifford, H Divola, E Dykes, Don Johnston, Alex Kann, Warwick Keels or Kells, John Ley, N Lorimer, R S Maclurean, M J Morrison, Bruce Robertson, Kenneth G Rosenthal, Harold H Smith, I Soos, and Bruce D Wholohan. [Link]
(p) Beryl Guertner [ed]. Plans for your Dream Home [No 5 of the 'Practical Planning' series]. Sydney, no date [c 1955]. Published by Australian House and Garden, and including ten designs by John P Ley, seven by W Watson Sharp, and others by N Edwards, John Parker and Viera Turner. [Link]
Neil Clerehan [ed]. Best Australian Houses. Melbourne 1961.
(p) Wunderlich Limited. A Wallet of Home Plans [folder containing ten loose plans]. Wunderlich. South Melbourne 1966.
Builders
(p) James Moore & Sons Ppty Ltd. Four 'standard' designs for houses, printed on separate sheets. Nos 1, 2 and 4 are for four-roomed houses and no 2 for a five room house. No date [c1910].
(p) Dunlop Home Builders Limited. Designs and Plans. Melbourne, no date [c 1925]. [Link]
(p) G C Dickson & Yorston (Builders) Pty Ltd. The Exhibition House, Redcourt Avenue, Armadale. Melbourne, no date [?c1930].
Thomson & Gould. The Australian House. Sydney, no date [?c1935]. Builder's catalogue of twenty house designs
(p) Geo. Hudson Pty Limited, Some Designs of Hudson’s “Ready Cut” Homes (Hudson, Sydney no date [c 1957]). [with 4 pp insert in matching format, Royal Easter Show exhibit; 2 page cyclostyled typescript price list, of 12 August 1957].
(p) Olympia Home Constructions Pty Ltd. Olympia's "Kent"; Olympia's "Warwick; Olympia "Surrey"; Olympia"Lincoln" [four fliers for standard houses]. Black Rock [Victoria] no date [c 1959]. [Link]
(p) Guide Book to Parade of Homes. Sydney, no date [c1959]. Illustrates 35 houses built by members of the Master Builders Association of New South Wales on the Cherrybrook Gardens Estate, West Pennant Hills, Sydney.
(p) Beaumaris Constructions Pty. Ltd. 'The Junior "Wentworth" Home' [single sheet flier, c 1962].
(p) Howard Homes . 'The Junior "Wentworth" Home' [single sheet flier, c 1962]. See aso 'Project Homes', a special section of the Australian Home Beautiful, March 1972.
(f) Craig Davis Homes Pty. Ltd. [catalogue]. Melbourne, no date [c 1964].
Merchant Builders
(p) 32 items of ephemera, mostly undated, including:
Should we Build Now?
The Thinking Man's House.
Site Inspection Service (2 editions) and Merchant Builders Free Site Inspection Service (2 copies).
Kit Homes by Merchant Builders [substantial brochure].
The Terrace House by Merchant Builders [architect, Graeme Gunn]
Merchant Builders Pty. Ltd. / Terrace House - T.2 [price sheet] 1971.
Architects / Landscape Architect [brief notes on Charles Duncan, Graeme Gunn, Daryl Jackson & Evan Walker, McGlashan & Everist, Ellis Stones].
Three sheets of plans by Graeme Gunn:
TheTerrace House T1, T2, T3, T4.
The Cellar House CH1, CH2, CH3, CH4.
Terrace - T1; Courtyard - C2 ; Two Storey TS2; Studio - S2; Cellar CH2.
Brochure and sheets on brown paper:
The Award-Winning 'Open House' Series.
The Pavilion House by Merchant Builders on Display at Vermont Park.
The Long House by Merchant Builders, LG1, LG2, LG3, LG4.
The Garden House by Merchant Builders OH5, OH6 [OH5 on display at Vermont Park]
Glenferrie Road Townhouses. 416 Glenferrie Road, Kooyong, Victoria.
Merchant Builders Brighton Project Stage 2.
Sorrett Drive, Malvern, Price List [two copies].
Merchant Builders have moved their display centre to High Street Doncaster / Elliston Merchant Builders Display Centre Rosanna [location maps].
Elliston
Houses by Merchant Builders. Elliston [Jackson & Walker plan 'JC2' McGlashan & Everist plan 'ME2', Charles Duncan plan 'DE'] 1971.
Four sheets of plans:
Elliston Plan Sheet by Architect Daryl Jackson [5 house plans].
Elliston Plan Sheet by Architect Charles Duncan [4 house plans].
Elliston Plan Sheet by Architects McGlashan & Everist [5 house plans].
Elliston Plan Sheet by Architect Graeme Gunn [5 house plans]..
Houses by Merchant Builders [houses on display at Winter Park: Courtyard C1; Terrace TS2; Two Storey TS3; Studio S1; Cellar CH2] 1971.
Merchant Builders Winter Park 'Cluster Housing' [site plan & price list] 1971.
"Winter Park", 17 Timber Ridge Doncaster [auction notice for a four bedroom house, Saturday 3 July - from the perpetual calendar the only such dates in the period 1970-1980 were in 1971 and 1976].
Merchant Builders Price List / Effective 14th May 1976 [two copies].
Merchant Builders Kit Houses [single sheet price list] 1978.
Houses by Merchant Builders [substantial brochure, after 1978].
Public Housing and Slums
Note RVIA Journal, above, for Barrett on housing and slum abolition.
(f) Victoria. Housing Investigation and Slum Abolition Board. First (Progress) Report, &c. Victorian Parliament, Melbourne 1937. Four copies, one of which belonged to Ruth Hoban, a housing officer with the Housing Commission of Victoria from l940, and one stamped from the library of Frank Heath, Housing Commission architect.
Victoria. Slum Reclamation and Housing Act 1938: 'A Bill to make further provision ..., read 1st time, 27 July, 1938' Two copies.
F A Jenkins, Secretary, Municipal Association of Victoria, 'Slum Reclamation and Housing Bill, Memorandum', 19 April 1938.
Victoria, 2 Geo VI, No 4568. An Act to Make Further Provision with respect to the Powers and Duties of the Housing Commission and for other purposes, 11 October 1938.
Victoria. Housing (Standard of Habitation) Regulations, 1939, 1940:
Draft Regulations Prescribing Standards on Non-Compliance, &c. No date [?c1939]
'Regulations Prescribing Standards on Non-Compliance', extract from the Victoria Government Gazette, no 293, 18 October 1939.
'Draft Only .... Draft Regulations for or with respect to Regulation &c ... Housing (Building Minimum Standards) Regulations 1940.'
Two copies.
Victoria. Slum Reclamation and Housing Acts
F O Barnett & W O Burt, 'Memorandum ... Amendments (proposed) of the Slum Reclamation and Housing Acts (Vic.) covering (inter alia) certain planning powers', February 1943. Typescript inscribed with the compliments of W O Burt.
[Frank Heath] 'Notes on Memorandum by F. Oswald Barnett and W.O. Burt'. Typescript, initialled at the end 'F.H./4.4.43'.
b(p) Victoria. Housing Commission. First Annual Report. Melbourne 1939; also the 2nd, 3rd [two copies], 4th [two], 5th, 6th, 7th & 8th [two], 9th, 10th & 11th [two], 12th, 13th [two], 15th, 16th [three], 18th [two], 19th [two], 23rd, 25th, 30th, 32nd, 33rd, 34th [two], 35th [three], 36th [two], 37th, 38th [two], 39th, 40th, 41st, 42nd [two], 43rd, 44th and 45th.
E C Laird. Housing Commission, Victoria, Report to Architects' Panel on Overseas Housing Programme. Melbourne 1950.
(p) Home Truths, vol 1, no 2 (Summer 1953).
Brotherhood of St Laurence.What's Wrong with Victoria's Housing Programme? Melbourne 1954.
(p) Victoria. Legislative Assembly. First Report of the Committee appointed to enquire into the Activities of the Housing Commission of Victoria. Melbourne 1955.
(p) Victoria. Royal Commission ... into ..the Housing Commission &c., Report. Melbourne 1956. Two copies, one cyclostyled typescript, one printed.
(p) Victoria, Housing Commission. H Davey & Graeme Shaw to the Hon H R Petty, MLA, Minister for Housing, 24 June 1960. Photocopy of letter.
(p) Victoria, Housing Commission. 'New Housing Commission Concrete House'. Cyclostyled typescript, 5 pp, with two dyelines showing a view and a plan of the house. No date.
(p) Victoria, Housing Commission. Housing Commission, Victoria, presents the 'Superior' Concrete House [brochure]. Melbourne, no date [c 1960].
(p) Victoria, Housing Commission. Concrete House Project, Housing Commission - Victoria. Annual Report 1958-59. Also 1959-1960, 1960-1961, 1961-1962 [two copies].
(p) Victoria, Housing Commission. Park Towers, Park Street, South Melbourne. Melbourne 1969.
(p) Victoria, Housing Commission. Housing for Elderly Citizens [brochure]. Melbourne, no date [early 1970s].
(p) Victoria, Housing Commission. Housing is People. Melbourne 1970.
(p) Victoria, Housing Commission. Housing is People. Melbourne 1972 [1970].
(p) Victoria, Housing Commission. Housing Commission, Victoria, Australia. Melbourne 1971.
(p) Victoria, Housing Commission. Australia's First Metric Light Timber Framed Villa [leaflet]. Melbourne, no date [1974].
(p) Victoria, Housing Commission. Housing Commission News: 3, 1, April 1971 3, 2, October 1971 3, 3, December 1971 4, 1, March 1972 4, 2, June 1972 4, 3, October 1972 4, 4, December 1972 5, 1, March 1973 5, 2, July 1973 5 3, October 1973 5, 4, December 1973 6, 1, March 1974 6, 2, July 1974 6, 3, October 1974 7, 1, March 1975 7, 2, July 1975 7, 3, October 1975 7, 4, December 1975
(p) Victoria, Housing Commission. Inside Housing: 1, 1, March 1976 1, 2, June 1976 1, 3, September 1976 1, 4, December 1976 January 1977 July 1977 October 1977
Victoria, Ministry of Housing. Annual Report of the Director of Housing, Victoria, 1983-1984. Melbourne 1984.
The War Memorials
Woods, Bagot, Jory & Laybourne-Smith. The National War Memorial for South Australia. Adelaide 1928. Together with a modern brochure on the War Memorial, and a press cutting of February 1928, quoting a report in the Adelaide Mail of 18 February 1928.
The Anzac Memorial, Hyde Park, Sydney, N.S.W. Sydney 1934.
S E Napier [ed]. The Book of the Anzac Memorial, New South Wales. Sydney 1934.
(p) Ambrose Pratt & John Barnes. The National War Memorial of Victoria. 2nd ed, Melbourne, November 1934 [October 1934].
(p) The National War Memorial of Victoria: the Shrine of Remembrance. Melbourne, no date [1949]. It appears from p 44 that the booklet 'was actually in press' after April and before 31 October 1949.
Guide to Australian War Memorial. Canberra 1953 [1941].
Bruce Harding. Windows of Fame. Melbourne 1963.
The Sydney Opera House
Michael Baume. The Sydney Opera House Affair. Melbourne 1967.
Utzon and the Sydney Opera House: Statement in the Public Interest. Sydney 1967.
Elias Duek-Cohen [ed]. Utzon and the Sydney Opera House. Sydney 1967.
John Yeomans. The Other Taj Mahal. London 1968.
O L Zeigler [ed]. Sydney Builds an Opera House. Sydney 1973.
Arup Journal, 8, 2 October 1973 [Sydney Opera House special issue].
Vincent Smith. The Sydney Opera House. Sydney 1974.
See also:
(sec 20) Robertson, Architectural Composition [Marcus Martin's copy] (sec 27) Middleton, Modern Buildings (for the extensive Australian section by Robert Haddon) (sec 36) Hudson, Cottage Homes Hudson, "Ready-Cut" Homes (sec 41) Boyd, Australia's Home