James Walter Chapman-Taylor - House booklets

Fonds

Identifier: chaj-P

Staff Only

Dates

Creation: 1933 - 1937

Access & use

This material is freely available for research and private study within the J.C.Beaglehole Room. For any use beyond this, please address requests to the J.C.Beaglehole Room in the first instance.

Biographical/Historical note

Chapman-Taylor, James Walter

1878
: Born
1958
: Died

Chapman-Taylor was born in Taranaki and in his teens was apprenticed to a local builder. In 1903 he enrolled in an architecture course through the International Correspondence Schools in the United States. In a career spanning some 60 years, he is best known for his domestic architecture, in which the principles of the English Arts and Crafts movement were influential, but was also a significant contributor to New Zealand photography.

For more information see his entry in Te Ara Biographies (https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/3c11/chapman-taylor-james-walter) or 'The life and times of James Walter Chapman-Taylor' by Judy Siers (Napier: Millwood Heritage Productions, 2007)