James Walter Chapman-Taylor - House booklets
Dates
- 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)
Extent
2 linear_centimeters
Language of Materials
English
- Architects -- New Zealand. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Collected archives Subject Source: Local sources
- NRAM: The Community Archive entry Subject Source: Local sources
- Subtitle
- J C Beaglehole Room - archives and manuscripts
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Nicola Frean and Sue Hirst
- Date
- 26 July 2019
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English
Repository Details
Part of the J C Beaglehole Room, Victoria University of Wellington Library Repository
