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James Walter Chapman-Taylor - House booklets

 Fonds
Identifier: chaj-P

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

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

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