Jolimont in Context. Miles Lewis October Jolimont July 1st 1842, by Sarah Bunbury: : State Library of Victoria H5531

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1 Jolimont in Context Miles Lewis October 2009 Jolimont July 1st 1842, by Sarah Bunbury: : State Library of Victoria H5531

2 government houses

3 Map of the settlement at Westernport Bay Public Record Office London

4 government house site at Corinella, Westerport Bay Miles Lewis

5 excavation at Corinella, Westerport Bay Miles Lewis

6 plan of buildings around the Law Courts corner, 1855 after W L Williams, History Trails in Melbourne (Sydney 1957)

7 Toorak House, St George's Road, Toorak, c watercolour by J D Stone, 1858 National Library of Australia

8 Lonsdale s s cottage

9 factors favouring prefabrication materials requiring to be imported labour cheaper at the point of origin insecurity of tenure or uncertainty of permanence adverse site conditions economies of industrial production

10 drawing by the Royal Engineers, Sydney, for Lonsdale s Cottage, 1836 Archives Office of New South Wales

11 section of Lonsdale s Cottage, 1836 Archives Office of New South Wales

12 Site of Lonsdale s Cottage after Adams, Liardet s Water-Colours, p 52

13 disparate roof dimensions Lonsdale s Cottage, attributed to George O Brien, 1839 or 1850 State Library of Victoria H3487

14 Lonsdale s Cottage: reconstruction of the roof frame Miles Lewis

15 Lonsdale s cottage at the time of demolition, April 1891, by Charles S Bennetts State Library of Victoria H3846

16 as supplied, with the roof too small as built, with a skew roof Lonsdale s Cottage stages of development as extended during Lonsdale s occupation additions Miles Lewis

17 detail of Robert Hoddle s plan of Melbourne, 1837 onwards Burchett, East Melbourne, p 5

18 Clement Hodgkinson s scheme to save the outbuildings of Captain Lonsdale s residence, c 1853 Burchett, East Melbourne, p 9

19 change of angle aerial view of Jolimont, c State Library of Victoria SLV H91.50/836Ac

20 Lonsdale s Cottage prepared for removal from Jolimont, 1891 Royal Historical Society of Victoria

21 the rise and fall of Lonsdale's Cottage part A 1836 made by the Royal Engineers in Sydney, roof size incorrect 1837 shipped on the Isabella, some timbers jettisoned in foul weather 1837 carcase erected with some replacement timber 1837 roof erected with the rear adjusted to fit various additions 1891 moved to Carrum

22 Lonsdale s Cottage at Carrum, 1950s Royal Historical Society of Victoria

23 the rise and fall of Lonsdale's Cottage part B 1959 removed from Carrum, some timbers fell off the trailer 1959 re-erected in John Holland's builder's yard with some replacement timber 1962 dismantled and stored under iron sheets at Como 1973: elements found to have been used in the Moomba float and as doors on the Como lavatories 1973: an inventory taken: parts of McCrae's Cottage &c now mixed in placed in commercial storage removed to storage at 'Glenfern' 1985 another inventory taken at 'Glenfern': only one window head and two sills could be confidently identified

24 Lonsdale s Cottage detail from the inventory taken at 'Glenfern in 1985 Miles Lewis

25 the remaining window head and sills from Lonsdale s Cottage, 1985 Miles Lewis

26 prefabrication

27 S W Brooke's patent cottages Builder, I, 15 (21 May 1843), p 178

28 Peter Thompson's Emigrant's house [for South Australia] & pair of semi-detached cottages [John Stephens], The Land of Promise (London 1839), advertisements Builder, I, 6 (18 March 1843), p 70

29 Judge Chapman's letter, New Zealand, December 1843 John Stacpoole, Colonial Architecture in New Zealand (Wellington 1976) p 26

30 Chief Justice Martin's house at Judges Bay, Auckland, by Peter Thompson, before 1843], and the plan from Chapman s letter Stacpoole, Colonial Architecture in New Zealand, p 26

31 'Woodlands', Oaklands Junction, by Peter Thompson, 1842, erected 1843 Miles Lewis

32 'Woodlands', models before and after alterations

33 Henry Manning portable house supplier

34 First Government House, Auckland, by Henry Manning, erected by William Mason, 1841 John Stacpoole, William Mason, the First New Zealand Architect (Auckland 1971), p 3 Stacpoole, Colonial Architecture in New Zealand, pp 24-5

35 PORTABLE COLONIAL COTTAGES H. MANNING, 251, HIGH-HOLBORN, London, manufacturer on the most simple and approved principles, pack in a small compass, may be erected with windows, doors, and locks, painted inside and outside, floors, &c. complete for habitations in a few hours after landing. price 15. and upwards. They may be taken to pieces and removed as often as the convenience of the settler may require. H.M. made those now occupied in the colony, by the Rev. C.B. Howard, J.B. Hack, esq. and others from whom testimonials have recently been received of the superiority of those over all others.... South Australian Record, 3, 27 November 1837, p 1.

36 Henry Manning s panelised prefabrication system J C Loudon, An Encyclopædia of Cottage Farm and Villa Architecture (London 1846 [1833]), p 256

37 Manning cottage at Ringmer Rd, Burnside, South Australia Miles Lewis

38 Manning cottage at Burnside, South Australia Miles Lewis

39 Journal of Samuel Bradford Vaughan Particulars of Packages of wooden house as they are marked + numbered courtesy of Mrs W J Kendall, now in the State Library of Victoria

40 Panelled House 12 1 do. 2 Bead + Butt Framings Square Panell'd do do. 8 Square do. 2 Bead + Butt do do. 10 Bead + Butt do do. 6 do. do. do Sash Framings Package 6 Bead + Butt Framings Square Panel do Package 8 Doors + Grounds Square Panelled framings 18 1 do. 4 Corner Posts Grooved Posts 6.2 Grooved Posts with Iron ties do Grooved Posts do. 2 Top + 2 Bottom long Plates do. 2 Top + 2 Bottom Plates to connect with Plates no do. 9 Joists do. 9 do do. 9.2 Grooved Posts Case Floor Cloth for Roofing 26 [deleted] Not Sent 27 1 Package Grooved Posts groove posts for Partitions 28 1 do. 2 Gable Posts 24 Gable Muntins

41 31 1 do. 4 Top Plates do. 4 Bottom do do. 14 Rafters do. 14 do do. 12 do do. 12 do do. 17 Roof Boards do. 17 do. do do. 17 Floor do Package 17 Floor do do. 17 do. do do. 25 do. do do. 20 Roof Boards do. 20 do. do do. 4 Rafters for Gable Ends Case - 6 Locks for doors of the Pannel'd House - 6 Iron braces to connect bottom and Top Plates - 3 Locks for Rough House - 1 Doz Brass Bolts + Screws - 6 Brass Nobs - 6 Brass Buttons - 6 Iron Ties - 6 Iron Bolts Package 1 Cottage Window *22 1 Do. 2 Framings Seat - Riser + Roof For *23 1 Do 1 Door + Frame + 1 W.C Framing for do. Total measurement in. Tons. feet Feet or

42 Directions for erecting my Wooden House. (Portable Panell'd made by Mr Manning of Holborn) First look out the ground plates or cills and knock them together, take care to bring the corners together as they are marked - next place the corner posts according to their respective marks into the bottom plates + put the nuts on screws from the underside + screw them tightly up - next put in the middle posts those that are fastened with screws + screw them from the underside very firmly; next knock the top plates together according as they are marked (these plates are grooved the bottom are not) + lift them up bodily + place the same upon the top of posts already screwed in. then screw the top plates down to the posts but not close down at first until you get all the panelled framings + posts in all round which you must do by first placing in a framing then a post and the last (when you come to close the last two) must be sprung in thus [sketch]. You must take care to place the doors and windows in the places where you want them to be before you screw down the top plates firmly + put in the cross partitions - i.e. in a similar way to the external enclosures. The cross plates are marked at each end which you must be particular in looking to. having got all properly down screw up all the nuts very firmly - next put in the Rafters + nail two or three braces across the underside of the Rafters to keep them in their places - then nail on Board covering for the Roof - and last of all put down the Floor Boards. The gable Enclosures are put in similarly to the panell'd framing. Note. the Bottom plates are painted Black.

43 S B Vaughan house, 78 Mercer Street, Queenscliff, moved c from Mona Place, South Yarra Miles Lewis

44 La Trobe s s cottage Superintendent LaTrobe s House, by W F E Liardet Adams, Liardet s Water-Colours, p 55

45 I planned a small panelled cottage capable of being easily put together which was to be prepared to be shipped off without delay direct to P.P. with tents and a variety of stores such as I was instructed by my advisers to be indispensable or convenient. The plan of the framework and fittings of a more substantial and permanent cottage was (also decided upon and the work put in hand, to be completed and forwarded to the colony as soon as might be after my departure... Memorandum in the Gipps-La Trobe Correspondence, State Library of Victoria H7553(547)

46 'Jolimont': pastel, by G A Gilbert State Library of Victoria no H5278

47 the Melbourne Auction Company s chambers, with a land sale in progress, 10 June 1840, by W F E Liardet: detail State Library of Victoria

48 Upper Jolimont in 1871 Telecom Australia Neg No VH 481/2

49 Inveresk, 2 Jolimont Terrace, by James Gall, 1877 Miles Lewis

50 'Map of Jolimont Melbourne ', survey by R Counsel, 1853 State Library of Victoria H18199 Upper Jolimont the original cottage ex-queenscliff house

51 Jolimont, stages of construction Helen Botham, La Trobe's Jolimont: a Walk around my Garden (Melbourne 2006), p 10

52 Edward La Trobe Bateman and the picturesque sensibility the detached cottage Bateman sketch 04 State Library of Victoria

53 the detached cottage Bateman sketch 03 State Library of Victoria

54 Oak Cottage, Blaise Hamlet, detail of porch Miles Lewis

55 Officers' Quarters, Ballarat Camp, design by H B Lane, about 1853 Weston Bate, Lucky City: the First Generation at Ballarat, (Melbourne 1978), p 48

56 the larger rockery Bateman sketch State Library of Victoria

57 Strong Premium Wrought-Iron Hurdles, by Charles D Young & Company of Edinburgh Charles D Young & Company, Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of Ornamental Cast and Wrought Iron and Wire Work (Edinburgh 1850), p 27

58 wrought iron fences, Woolmers, Tasmania, and Werribee Park, Victoria Miles Lewis

59 iron fence hurdles, 'The Heights', Geelong, possibly 1850s drawing by Peter Alsop

60 the water shed Bateman sketch State Library of Victoria

61 William Strutt s view of an incident when a water carrier s horse escaped its harness in Collins Street Victorian Parliamentary Library

62 Melbourne Water Works stopcock cover, Fitzroy: Bateman s patent Miles Lewis

63 Flinders Street East from the opposite bank of the Yarra, by Charles Norton, c 1862 Stewart Collection

64 the afterlife of the Jolimont estate

65 sketch plan of subdivision of part of the Jolimont estate, c 1857 Graham La Trobe Papers LS2/30/5 box 2, Melbourne University Archives

66 reconstruction of the 1857 plan of the Jolimont estate Miles Lewis

67 reconstruction of the plan of the Jolimont estate Miles Lewis

68 reconstruction of the plan of the Jolimont estate Miles Lewis

69 'Plan of the Jolimont Estate, the Property of C.J. La Trobe Esq,', by R C Bagot, 1865 Graham Papers, Melbourne University Archives

70 decline and fall

71 Jolimont c1895 detail of MMBW plan no 27,

72 Jolimont detail of MMBW 40 ft = 1 in plan

73 Bedggood & Co, Agnes Street, East Melbourne detail of MMBW drainage plan no c

74 Argus, 24 March 1914, p 7 'First Government House Jolimont Landmark to be Demolished'

75 Unsourced interior of the cottage,?1930s

76 the cottage at Bedggood s 1930s unsourced photo ex Alec Petrie: Brian Hatfield T

77 garden design for the grounds adjoining the factory of Messrs Bedggood, the residence of the late Governor La Trobe at East Melbourne by Edna Walling, January 1932 State Library of Victoria H97.270/109

78 the cottage at Bedggood s c 1943 unsourced photo: Brian Hatfield

79 the remnant Bedggood & Co, Agnes Street, East Melbourne detail of MMBW drainage plan no c

80 the remnant of La Trobe s Cottage, c 1950s. unsourced photo

81 the remains of the panelised house,? c 1960 Melbourne University Architecture slide collection 6997

82 resuscitating the corpse

83 'Jolimont en Mars 1840', apparently sketched by Sir Thomas Ramsay, a La Trobe document: detail, omitting the key

84 'Reconstruction Preliminary Plan for Latrobe's Cottage', Melbourne University Architecture slide 6,993

85 La Trobe's Cottage: perspective reconstruction as in?1840, by Melbourne University architecture students Melbourne University Architecture slide 6,993

86 The National Trust Junior group working on La Trobe s Cottage, July 1963: Jennie Miller, Vittorio Verdiani,?, and Nada Brozel (Mardsen) courtesy Nada Brozel

87 the National Trust Junior Group painting La Trobe's cottage

88 balloons & studs

89 La Trobe s Cottage: base detail of the dining room on its present site, 1989 Miles Lewis

90 La Trobe's cottage dining room framing base plates 133/140 x 65/68 mm, halved together at the corner. common studs 88/89 mm x 62/68 mm (88 x 62, 89 x 68 and 88 x 63). a single stud at the corner, slightly larger than the others: 94 x 70. studs spaced 307, 380, 455 mm. probing at the junction of studs and plate reveals no clear evidence of tenons. feeling the underside of the plate reveals no evidence at all of mortices. studs are fixed to the plate with one or two diagonal nails from the side. no form of bracing could be seen (this may have existed elsewhere or the room may have simply relied upon the support of the Manning house)

91 the American balloon frame & Haddon s illustration of the Australian stud frame, 1908 G E Woodward, Woodward's Country Homes, 1869 reproduced in Sigfried Giedion, Space, Time and Architecture: the Growth of a New Tradition (4th ed, Cambridge [Massachusetts] 1963), p 345 Robert Haddon, Australian Archi-tecture (Melbourne, no date [1908]), p 327

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