Subsubseries 01 - Tree Court rebuilding and alterations to existing buildings.

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GC/DOM/PD/01/01

Unique identifier

GB 2198 GC/DOM/PD/01/01

Title

Tree Court rebuilding and alterations to existing buildings.

Date(s)

  • 1867-1883 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

40 plans Manuscript

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Name of creator

Waterhouse, Alfred

Biographical history

(1830-1905) Architect. Educated under Richard Lane in Manchester, further study in France, Italy and Germany. He started his own practice in Manchester in 1853 and; designed the Town Hall and the Assize Buildings. In 1866 he moved to London where he designed the Natural History Museum.

Repository

Cambridge University, Gonville and Caius College Archive

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Transferred to the Archive by the Domestic Bursar, c.1985

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Scope and content

Plans, sections and elevations of the proposed building, artists impression and designs for gas fittings and Fellow's Garden. Some plans and drawings signed.

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      Existence and location of originals

      Existence and location of copies

      See photographs of selected plans in the photographic collection (PH:B/13/04).

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      See also:

      • 1864-67: out-letter books, Royal Institute of British Architects Library

      • 1869-82: papers rel to Eaton Hall, Royal Institute of British Architects Library

      • family papers, design for Blackmoor House, Royal Institute of British Architects Library

      • Eaton Hall building accounts, Private

      • 1877-95: misc corresp and papers rel to Manchester Town Hall, Manchester Archives and Local Studies

      • 7 boxes of drawings: 134 pencil drawings of plants, animals and fossils, Natural History Museum

      • drawings, Canadian Centre for Architecture

      • c1858-1900: letters to Thomas Hodgkin, Reading University Library

      • letters, Cambridge University: Pembroke College Library.

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