TEMPLE HOUSE

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TASMANIA POLICE HEADQUARTERS

Archival Investigation

A. Rand May 1991 Tasmania Police Headquarters Archival Investigation

TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE

1. BRIEF 2

2. LAND USE AND OCCUPATION OF THE POLICE 5 HEADQUARTERS BLOCK Site Plan 5 2.1 Site 1 6 2.2 Site 2 7 2.3 Site 3 7 2.4 Site 4 8 2.5 Site 5 9 2.6 Site 6 9 2.7 Site 7 10 2.8 Site 8 10 2.9 Site 9 10 2.10 Site 10 10 2.11 Site 11 11 2.12 Site 12 11 2.13 Site 13 12 2.14 Temple House Site 12 2.15 Summary 12 References 14

3. A. HISTORY OF THE SOLOMON FAMILY 15 B. OCCUPATION OF TEMPLE HOUSE 1825-1947 20

4. DEVELOPMENT OF TEMPLE HOUSE 1825-1947 : 27 DISCUSSION 4.1 1840 Description 27 4.2 1863 Advertisement 28 4.3 Change to Temple House 1863-1921 30 4.4 Post-1921 Alterations 31

5. RECOLLECTIONS OF RESIDENTS, 1908 - 1918 33

6. SOURCES 38

7. TABLES 43 7.1 Charts 7.2 Figures 7.3 Photographs & Illustrations 7.4 Plans

8. AREAS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH 2.

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1. BRIEF

1. BACKGROUND

The Department of Construction intends to construct stage 3 of the new Police Headquarters on the Liverpool, Argyle, Bathurst, Campbell Street block. A site development plan is attached.

The development will involve demolition of some buildings, removal of 1940's additions to the rear of Temple House, some site bulk excavation and the digging of footings for the new building. Ancillary works including sub-surface works, reticulation of services to the site and the construction of retaining walls will also take place.

It is believed that the area contains European sites and that these may be impacted upon by the construction activities.

The conservation of the early-colonial Temple House will be undertaken as part of the Police Headquarters project.

Archival research is necessary to: ( a ) assist the future preparation of a Conservation plan for Temple House; ( b) discover the archaeological potential of the wider Police site; and ( C ) form a basis for the later placing of Archaeological trial trenches to further explore the site if necessary.

2. STUDY AREA

The study area is shown on the attached drawing.

3. OBJECTIVES

(a) Carry out archival/historical research especially of relevant plans, documents and photographs of the whole site study area. (b) Carry out more detailed achival/historical research of relevant plans, documents and photographs of the Temple House site area. (c) Provide copies of relevant plans, documents and photographs relating to the physical evidence of the past occupation of the site together with a series of overlays to assist further archaeological exploration of both the wider Police site and the Temple House site. 3.

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(d) Provide a review of the European history of the study area, identifying the themes of land use and occupation. (e) Where practicable conduct interviews and obtain oral history transcripts relevant to the elucidation of the history of both the wider Police site and the Temple House site. (f) Make recommendations on the necessity for further archaeological or historical work prior to the commencement of construction works.

4 • PRESENTATION OF REPORT

The history presentation should be divided into two sections (a) history of the whole block; and ( b) history of the Temple House site area.

It is envisaged that the section dealing specifically with Temple House will be separated and become background data to assist the preparation of a Conservation Plan for Temple House.

The report shall contain (a) Copies of relevant plans, documents and photographs; (b} Overlays; (c} A review, with references , of the history of land-use and occupation of the site; (d) Relevant excerpts from oral history interviews; (e) Recommendations for further work; and (f) Bibliography including a list of sources searched including those found to contain no information.

5. TIMING

Submit 5 copies of the formal report to the Project Architect, Graeme Corney, no later than April 22, 1991. 4.

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2. LAND USE AND OCCUPATION OF THE POLICE HEADQUARTERS BLOCK - LIVERPOOL, ARGYLE, BATHURST, CAMPBELL STREETS, HOBART

When J & J Solomon built their residence and store in 1825, it commanded a prominent site on the north east slope uphill from Sullivans Cove, and safely above the uncertain flooding of the rivulet which may have bothered the brothers in their original store "below the bridge" in Argyle Street (1), opposite the hospital, possibly the site of the HCC car park. (See Plan 4). A few prominent settlers had erected substantial dwellings nearer Sullivans Cove; Dr Birch had built in Macquarie Street (now part of 151 Macquarie Street) and Lord's "Ingle Hall" had graced the other corner of Macquarie and Argyle Streets since 1814. The Government buildings were mostly to last through the administrations of many Governors - the Gaol, the Barracks Penitentiary, the Commissariat Store, as was St Davids. The Solomon building was contemporary with the last of the warehouses on Hunter Island 1822-5, mostly replaced by Jones and Co. constructions. (2)

The pre-1820 history of the block is not certain, but Chart 6, dated 1828, shows the early locations there.

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2.1 From Chart 6 it is evident that as well as the corner block on which the Solomon brothers, Judah and Joseph, erected Temple House as residence and store and in which Judah lived, the allotment adjoining on Liverpool Street, Site l on Site Diagram, was also originally located to J.Solomon. The site was occupied by 1826 when the Land Commissioners prepared a plan to accompany their Report on public buildings in the town.(3) Chart 2, 1829, shows the cottage thereon was built of wood. In 1829 the property was granted to Gamaliel Butler (4), see Plan 9, Judah Solomon's lawyer (5). The Hobart Town Almanack, 1831 (J.Ross) shows the property was occupied by McLeod's cart and plough 'manufactory'. Assessment Rolls and directories show that from these premises for the next eighty years a succession : of proprietors ran livery stables. William Bateman, there from 1847 until the 1860s, was followed by a s~ccession of short-term occupants until the 1880s when Thomas Broughton moved his business there for the next twenty years. (6) Plan 2 shows the buildings on the site before 1840. Sprents plans (Plans 5 and 6) show the cottage back from the road cl847. The diagram of Actual Survey in 1922, Pl~n 1, confirms the reminiscences of W G Robertson in 1919 (7) who said 'the original house lies behind the 1919 front.' ( see Photo 6) The 1829 plan (Chart 2) showing building fabric indicates two sheds (?) behind the cottage; the map of Hobart, after Frankland, (Chart 3) has one building, but the scale is too small for accuracy. They could have been part of the cart and plough business or could have been stables, such as the shaded buildings in Plan 2 pre-1840 on the G.Butler grant are likely to be.

By the Assessment of Hobart in 1885, the ex-Butler property had been bought by Joseph Solomon. Broughton continued to run his business from the site until 1908 when the Derwent Motor Electrical Engineering Company (7) rented the premises from the Solomon Estate. It was probably at this time that the back section of the property was fenced off with a cyclone type wire fence - see Photo 5. Mrs Dorothy Hooper, nee Benjamin, who lived in Temple House as a child from 1908-1918 spoke of a garden the Benjamin children were not permitted to enter. Her grandfather, Samuel Benjamin of Temple House, was President of the Chrysanthemum Society (8) and the shed apparent over that section of the ex-Butler/ stables property could have been light shelter for prize flower·s.

When the YMCA bought the property in 1921, they constructed a tennis court on the site, greatly reducing the backyard of the house No:33 Liverpool Street (see Plan 10). In 1929 extensions to the east wall of Temple House brought it to the edge of the tennis court. Later additions to the YMCA, the rectangular dormitory blocks apparent in the 7.

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panoramas (Photos 2,9) were built over the tennis court area. (see Plan 8) An addition was apparently made to the back wall of the house No: 31 Liverpool Street (Photo 2) sometime after 1930, and both buildings were replaced by the four conjoined shops built after 1947 and now used by the Police Department.

2.2 SITE 2

- James Kelly, the first Harbour Master of the port of Hobart Town, was the original locatee of the next allotment, see Chart 6.

In 1823 Lieut.-Governor William Sorell authorised the grant of a lease of the allotment adjoining the Colonial Surgeon's barracks (see Plan 4) to Dr James Scott, Colonial Surgeon, for twenty-one years. (10) There was a house on this by 1826, possibly occupied by J L Roberts who was the resident when the first Hobart Town directory was published in 1831. (11) Scott's land was sold by his executors, with the 'messuage and premises' whi6h had 'been erected thereon' to SA Tegg in 1840. (12) Scott had a private practice in Liverpool Street from 1828 to 1832, and these 'premises' may have been the location. (13) There were two cottages either side of the original house by 1847, (see Plans 5 & 6), and another was built on the site when Richard Thompson, a hairdresser, acquired it by 1853. Robert Wood, tenant of several of these cottages during the next twenty years, had bought them all by 1874. (14) Like Bateman and Broughton, he ran hire cabs, and no doubt gave his name to the original cottage, Woodville, which Robertson said was on of the oldest in the street in 1919. (15) These cottages were the houses and workplaces of many small tradespeople, bootmakers, tailors, a hairdresser, a baker, a dressmaker, and in one in 1847 a small school was conducted. (16) These cottages were demolished when the Police Buildings were erected in 1927.

2.3 SITE 3

The allotment, Site 3, marked Surgeons Quarters in Chart 6, the location map of 1828, presents some confusion as to its early boundaries. The map of Hobart in 1830, Chart 7, shows the same boundaries as the 1828 one, but with one building thereon,the Surgeon's Quarters. The 1829 map of Hobart, however, with the detail of building fabric and some boundary measurements included, show the stone/brick Surgeon's building within a small allotment, and a small timber 8. Tasmania Police Headquarters Archival Investigation

building to the west, within its own 'boundaries'. The 'boundary' lines on the original are clearly if faintly defined, but as they were not reproduced clearly as Chart 2, they have been added after reference to the original. The lines may indicate fencing of timber construction existing at the time. They are to be compared with the solid line defining the northeast and northwest boundaries of Solomon's Temple House site which is obviously stone or brick wall. The large vacant areas in the centre of the block would have offered grazing and it may be significant that Site 10 was originally located to E.Miller a butcher. (17)

Sprent's (Plans 5 cl847, and 6 cl842-7) and the 1896 Chart 4 follow the boundaries of the 1828 location map, Chart 6. It is therefore likely that the timber building beside the Surgeon's Quarters was legally part of Site 2.

The use of the building changed in 1837 from housing the Colonial Surgeon to accommodating patients from the over­ crowded hospital opposi te. (18) Additions were made to the building between 1835 (Plan 4) and 1847 shown in Sprent's Plan of circa 1847. (Plan 5) The handwritten words 'Police and Court House Reserve' as in the block above on Bathurst Street which has 'Technical School' in handwriting, are post-1890 additions. The building was known as the Infirmary in the 1847 Assessment Rolls and Robertson termed it 'the Infirmary for women of which in 1850-1860 Mrs Peel was Matron'. (19) In 1860 it was briefly the Comptroller General's and Sherriff's Offices, but again the Infirmary throughout the 1860s. (20) Thereafter it housed the hospital nurses until 1891. The building was empty until 1894 when the Department of Agriculture took up office there, later sharing it with the Police Territorial Department, who were sole occupants until their new building was finished in 1928, when the old Infirmary was demolished to make a playground for the Junior Technical School on Bathurst Street. (22) The site was finally used for the Police Court building in the 1950s, now the Magistrates' Court.

Although outside the terms of enquiry as Sites 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,11, 12 & 13 are not part of the area owned by Tasmania Police, some research was done on the sites to complete the city block.

2.4 SITE 4

The site at the corner of Liverpool and Campbell Streets was originally a location to Mrs Serjeant whose land on the 1828 Chart 2 extended to Bathurst Street. She ran a bakery in the brick building on the corner of Liverpool and Campbell Streets in 1831. (23) 9.

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By 1847 she also owned a large house adjoining her own, rented by Dr Agnew (24) which appears on Sprent's Plan cl847 (Plan 5), but not on the earlier version which appears to date that Plan 6 between 1842-1847. By 1854 the corner house was owned by John Morgan and run as a boarding house, and Dr Agnew had given way to a draper's assistant. A year later the boarding house had been converted into two shops, the one on the corner run by a wine merchant, the n ext by John Morgan now in a tea warehouse. The house n ext door was also divided with a shop . beside the Infirma ry, the premises of another tea dealer/grocer, the other a private house. (25)

From this time the usag e of the buildings on this corner continued to alt ernate between small shops, houses used as shops and vice versa, actual titles changing hands several times, and the buildings undergoing more subdivision in the 1890s when at one time five tenants ran bu siresse sat that end of the block. ( 26) A photo, taken from the hospital opposite, shows the 1942 facade. (see Photo No:l) The wood engraving (Illustration No:4) gives an impression of the buildings in the street in 1879.

2.5 SITE 5

Land dealings on the Campbell Street allotments were not researched, but the Hobart Town Assessment Rolls give an indication of occupation. Sprent's Plans (Plans 5 and 6) both show two adjoined buil dings north of the corner building, and the 1847 Assessment Roll values indicate they were small cottage s wi th owner occupiers. By 1859, publican D W Bush bough t the property and the conjoined building was let as one dwelling house to a succession of tenants. It continued to be let after the executors of Bush's estate sold the property to Thomas Green by 1885. It had changed hands again by 1897 (27) and was in use as a residence until d e molished to make way for the Blundstone factory.

2. 6. SITE 6

Originally part of Mrs Serjeant's location (Chart 7) and marked on Plans 5 and 6 as belonging to William Chamberlain, a whaling captain, a building on this allotment was listed for the first time in 1859 when Joseph Facey was owner occupier of a substanti al dwelling house on the site. His wife was the resident owner in 1874 (28), and she had sold the property to R L Hood junior by 1885. It had changed hands again several times before 1905. (29) It was demolished for the Ellis Wing of the Hobart Technical College in 1926. (30) 10. Tasmania Police Headquarters Archival Investigation

2.7 SITE 7

A timber cottage existed on the Site 7 at the corner of Bathurst and Campbell Streets by 1829. (Chart 2) It had been improved by 1853 when i ts value had doubled. It was owned by the master mari ner Richard Griffiths from 1854. (31) It had been bought by Lady Jamieson by 1860, and her heirs were still leasing it in 1877. It had changed hands by 1885 and again by 1897 when the Kenmure family acquired it. Valued at £900 in 1905 (32) it was later demolished to form part of the Technical College.

2.8 SITE 8

The dwelling house on t he land owned by William Chamberlain the whaling captain, shown on Sprent's Plans 5 and 6 cl847, seems to have replaced two timber structures on the site in Chart 2, 1828, possibly as early as cl830, as Chart 7 shows only one building on this site then. It was let to a labourer, Josiah Rose in 1847 (33). By 1853 improvements to the building had doubled its value. John Cochrane rented the house until 1860 when Chamberlain was resident. His wife Susan was still living there in 1885. (34) The date of its demolition to make way for the Technical College was not researched.

2.9 SITE 9

Reserved by the Crown, Site 9 was the large allotment attached to the Colonial Surgeon's Quarters in 1828 (Chart 6). On the original Sprent Plan in the Survey Section at the Hobart City Council, handwritten in pencil are the words, 'Occupied as the nursery'. On this land in 1889 the Cruikshank Building was erected for the Technical College. (35) It has in recent years been occupied by the Tasmania Police.

2.10 SITE 10

Edward Miller, original locatee (Chart 6) and a butcher with premises in Collins Street, (36) lived in the timber house on this site shown in Charts 2 and 7. Edward Roberts, Colonial Engineer's Department, was tenant of the substantial dwelling on the site in 1847, (30) when it was still in the possession of the Miller family. By 1853 Richard Cleburne, a ships chandler had bought the property which he 'leased for some years to Charles Toby. From 1859 Cleburne's wife Louisa was owner and the tenant for at least the next nine 11. Tasmania Police Headquarters Archival Investigation

years was Charles Colvin, another ships chandler whose business premises were at Franklin Wharf. (38) Louisa Cleburne continued to lease the dwelling until the property was bought by Newman Arnold, the biscuit manufacturer, about 1899. It was valued at £500 in 1900. (39)

Though the building's use this century was not researched, Sprent's Plan 5 of 1847 bears the much later information Surrendered for Police Purposes, LC 7860~- Plan 3 shows it in 1985 as a brick house. It was obviously altered in shape from the simple rectangl~ ~- shown~in2Sprent~s~plan. It was demolished in 1985 for the f irst stage of the Police Head­ quarters which completely covered the site.

2.11 SITE 11

Site 11 was originally locat ed to Thomas Wood and a small timber dwelling had been ere cted on the site by 1831. (Charts 6 and 2) With an annual assessed value of 120, this property was occupied by C Phillips, a ginger beer brewer in 1847. (40) The Port Arthur ship build~n:· David Hoy had acquired the property by 1853 and it was later let to the master mariner Brydge White, whose wife favoured the location for its proxi mity to Scots Church, opposite. The Whites were resident owners from at least 1860. By 1885 Newman Arnold, the biscuit manufacturer, had bought this property and lived there some years, before letting it to a tenant, DJ Robson, in the 1890s. (41) In 1905, the stable was leased separately. This site also bears the later information, on Sprent's Plan 5 'Surrendered to the Crown for Govt. Office Accomd.' LC 7730'. Plan 3 shows the building on this site in 1985, like that on Site 10, as a brick house to be demolished for the first stage of the police headquarters. It also had undergone considerable modifications since it appeared on the Sprent plans cl847.

2.12 SITE 12

The property on the Argyle Street/Bathurst Street corner, located to John Wood by 1828, (Chart 6) had a cluster of timber buildings in 1829. By 1847 Robert Jeffrey, a wheel­ wright, owned a shop on the corner let first to Henry Caville, a baker, and later to a tailor Richard Bury for ten years until 1865. Jeffrey ran a wheelwrights business in the other dwelling on that allotment fronting Bathurst Street. (42) This building was possibly the timber construction existing in 1829 (Chart 2). Its use at that time ' is not known. From 1868 Daniel Farmilo, a carpenter, owned the two houses on Bathurst Street and the small one on the Argyle Street side, adjoining the Synagogue. His son ran a painting and decorati ng business from the corner premises from 1885 until at least 1898. (43) Monotone Printers' operations now occupy the whole site surrounding the corner building. 12.

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2.13 SITE 13

Part of the original locati6n to J Solomon (Chart 6), the Synagogue, built in 1845, is Australia's oldest. It was built on land donated to the Hebrew congregation by Judah Solomon in 1842, the title granted to Isaac Solomon, Samuel and David Moses. Designed in the Egyptian style by James A Thompson, it was financed by local Jews, with donations from the London Board of Deputies, Sir Moses Montefiore, and from Jews in London, Canada and the United States. Judah Solomon's pivotal role was graciously acknowledged in a complimentary address at the stone­ laying ceremony and a handsome memorial plaque. (49) The building is of great heritage value with most of its original ,fittings intact. Construction of the Police Headquarters in Bathurst Street between 1988 and 1990 caused considerable structural weakening. (45)

2.14 TEMPLE HOUSE SITE

The history of the occupation of this site is described in Chapter 3b.

2.15 SUMMARY OF LAND USAGE AND OCCUPATION OF THE STUDY SITE

From the second quarter of the nineteenth century, Sites land 2 on Liverpool Street, not far from the central business district, were occupied by small tradesmen. Site 1, originally a cart and plough manufactory, saw livery stables operated successfully until 1908. For the next forty years, the cottage was used as a residence until the YMCA, owners since 1921, built four small conjoined shops on the site in 1947. Small tradesmen operated a variety of small businesses from their houses on Site 2. These probably included the consulting rooms of Dr James Scott in 1828, as well as bootmakers, tailoring, hair dressing, bakery businesses and another livery stables throughout the century. All were replaced by the Police Building in 1927. Adjoining this, Site 3 saw the building which housed the Colonial Surgeons change in 1837 to accommodate hospital patients. Enlarged soon after it specifically housed women patients in what became known as the Infirmary until used as a home for nurses, later the offices of the Department of Agriculture and by 1896 the Police. The old building was demolished for the Technical School's playground in 1930 and in the 1950s was the site of the Police Court building. 13.

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The corner of Liverpool and Campbell Streets was the site of development from a bakery operated in a brick building in 1831, to a boarding house in 1854. From 1847 a doctor rented the house built h~xt · door~. :but .: by 185.5: both corner buildings had become part-residential part-commercial premises, for wine, tea and grocery dealers. The buildings up Campbell Street from this corner were used as residences until Blundstone's factory took over the lower sites this century, and the expansion of the Technical College absorbed the houses at the Bathurst Street corner.

A number of master mariners lived in dwellings on the Bathurst Street side of the block. The Cruikshank building of the Technical College begun in 1889, was built on Crown land used as a nursery for some time before that.

Houses on Sites 10 and 11, used as residences throughout the nineceenth century and into this, were only demolished in 1985. On Site 12 a wheelwright operated for twenty years until 1865 in premises used earlier to brew ginger beer. Later the Farmilo family ran a painting and decorating business till the end of the century. The site is now used by Monotone Printers.

The Synagogue was built in 1845 on land donated by Judah Solomon who,at times with other members of the family, operated an extensive business from Temple House, trading in wine and spirits and general merchandise, as well as dealing in property, from its construction in 1825 until his death in 1856.From about 1860 the house was used by his descendants as a residence until bought in 1921 by the YMCA as headquarters for its expanding activities which involved it in three major building alterations on the site, the gymnasium in 1922, construction of a tennis court about 1925, and accommodation extensions in 1928 and 1947.

Little opportunity now exists for archaelogical investigation on the Tasmania Police Headquarters block apart from the original Butler/stables site, adjoining Temple House. The considerable disturbance this ground has undergone, in the construction of the YMCA tennis court, the digging of foundations for the redbrick building erected by the YMCA in the late 1940s (now used for the Photography Section of the Tasmania Police), and the replacement of the original livery stables cottage by the late 1940s conjoined shops, may make this less valid, however. 14.

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1. Hobart Town Gazette 10.12.1821 ppl,3 2 • Craig, C. Engravers of Van Diemen's Land, 1963, ppl55-6 3. Land Commissioners Report 1826, reproduced in P.P. Roy. Soc. Tas., 1944, Craig,C. Early town planning in Hobart, pl08ff. 4 . LSD 1/175/ pl09 5. cso 16/6/203 p35ff 6 • HTG Ass. Rolls 1847-1905; Tas. Post Office Directory,1908 7 • W.G. Robertson, Hobart Streets, ms 1919, A.O.T. 8 • Tas. Post Office Directory, 1908 9. Cyclopaedia of Tasmania, 1901 pl90 10. SC 285/17/142 A.O.T. 11. Ross, J. Hobart Town Almanack, 1831 12. SC 285/17/142 A.O.T. 13. MJA 20.3.1954, Crowther, W.E.C., "Practice and personalities at- Hobart Town 1828-32", p423 14. HTG Ass. Rolls, 1854-1 874 15. Robertson, op.cit. 16. HTG Ass. Rolls 1947-1905 17. Walker family, All That We Inherit, Hobart, 1899, pl47 18. cso 1/-/18,525 19. Robertson, op.cit. 20. HTG Ass. Rolls 1860, 1861, 1865, 1868 21. Tas. P.O. Directory 1 894 22. Waters, J., The Cultur ed Mind, the Skilful Hand, Hobart, 1988, p70 23. Ross, J., 1831 op.cit . 24. HTG Ass Roll 1847 25. HTG Ass. Roll 1855 26. HTG Ass. Rolls 1859-1900 27. HTG Ass. Rolls, 1 897 28. HTG Ass. Rolls 1874 29. HTG Ass. Rolls 1885-1 905 30. Waters, J., op.ci t, p93 31. HTG Ass. Rolls 1847, 1853, 1854. 32. HTG Ass. Rolls 1860-1 905 33. HTG Ass. Rolls 1853-1 885 34. HTG Ass. Rolls 1853-1 885 35. Waterst ~J.,op.cit . p 3 3 36. Walker family, Al l That We Inherit, Hobart, 1899, pl47 37. HTG Ass. Rolls 1847 38. MacPhail, J. Director y 1867 39. HTG Assessment Rolls 1900 40. HTG Ass. Roll 1847; Tasmanian Directory 1847 41. HTG Ass. Rolls 1894-1905 42. HTG Ass. Rolls 1847-65 43. HTG Ass. Rolls 1868-1898 44. Gordon, M., The Jews in Van Diemen's Land, Melbourne 1965, pp63-74 45. Lucas, C., Temple House .. , a Report prepared for the Dept. of Construc tion, 1991, Appendix J., Report by Dr M.A. Lee, 1990. 15.

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3A HISTORY OF THE SOLOMON FAMILY OF TEMPLE HOUSE

Judah (cl776-1856) and Joseph Solomon (cl780?-1851) (1) were the sons of Abraham Solomon of London. (2). The brothers had been fruit and general merchants in Sheerness on the Thames estuary, supplying convict hulks anchored in the Medway. Themselves convicted of hiring burglars to repossess their goods, they received life sentences, were transported together on the Prince Regent to Sydney and from there on the Castle Forbes to Hobart, landing in March 1820. (3) Fortunately for them, the colony was then administered by Col. William Sorell and convicts did not meet the strict penal discipline that was to face those arriving from the time George Arthur was gov~rnor.

The Solomons' first months in the colony are not recorded, but within eight or nine months they were in a retail business on their own, in Argyle Street "at the foot of the bridge". An advertisement on 20 January 1821 (4) for groceries, cloth and clothing added that watches and jewellery were on sale 'as usual'. Among other goods they sold spirits, and were acquitted of doing so without a licence in J une 1821. (5)

In 1805, Judah had married Esther Abrahams, a widow (6) whom he had to leave i n 1819, to care for ten children, with another expected . Both brothers were middle-aged, and their fate prompted their fellow merchants in Sheerness to raise a collection on their account. This was brought to the col ony by a relative of Judah's wife, Henry Davis (7) in 1822. The brothers were thus enabled to join other merchants and leading citizens as subscribers to the new Bank of Van Diemen's Land in 1823. (8) In two years they had built the handsome residence and store commanding the corner of Liverpool and Argyle Streets. (9)

Their business activities in general merchandizing, sale of wine and spirits, land dealings and money lending brought prosperity. Joseph left Hobart in 1822 and established the firm in Launceston, Evandale and Campbell Town. (10) As his wife had agreed to a divorce before he·r husband, sentenced for life, sailed for Australia, Joseph was able to remarry in 1833. (11) Judah's wife however refused to divorce him, yet did not join him. He then formed a new relationship with Elizabeth Howell who bore him a ·son, Joseph, in 1825, but he was of course unable to marry her. To his dismay his wife Esther arrived in 1832 with two of their daughters and her acrimonious objections to his appeals for a free pardon over ten years ensured their failure, although supported by all major merchants and magistrates. (12) 16. Tasmania Police Headquarters Archival Investigation

But though his domestic life was not smooth, and differences between the brothers saw the earlier partnership dissolve in 1841(13), Judah held a prominent place in Hobart's mercantile community. The extent of Solomon properties in 1847 in Hobart Town alone put the Solomon family among the most affluent. Judah was generous both to the town's charities and its Jewish community. He helped many of its members financially (14) and his endowments to promote the Jewish religion in Hobart, then facing official:. indifference and almost opposition, gave him an honoured place in the community. Before the building of the Synagogue, prayer meetings had been held in Judah's home, thus earning it the name of Temple House or Solomon's Temple. In the Synagogue is a wooden Torah box thought to have been used at these meetings. (15) The Jewish population, one hundred in 1828, had grown to 259 in 1842 (16), at which time moves were made to establish a Synagogue, and Judah donated a part of his large garden for this purpose.

As part of the settlement of the partnership, Joseph had conveyed the land on which the Synagogue was built to Judah in 1844. He then conveyed it to Samuel and David Moses and his son, Isaac Solomon, representing the Jewish congregation. (17) Judah also made a generous donation to the building fund, later waiving a loan repayment owed him by the congregation whom he served as treasurer in its early years. (18) His generosity was acknowledged in a handsome memorial tablet in the Synagogue.

Joseph Solomon had given financial backing to the Port Phillip Association and Judah may have been financially involved also as part of the original firm of J & J Solomon. His daughter Sarah and her husband were early settlers in Melbourne. (19) They had returned to Tasmania by 1856 when Judah bequeathed his daughter a country inn and city flourmill. (20) Temple House was left to Isaac, l300 p.a. for life to his defacto wife,and other property to a daughter Lydia whose son Samuel Benjamin he had helped train at Temple House, but the bulk of the estate went to his son Joseph, his sole executor.

Isaac and his half-brother Joseph had been in partnership as wine and spirit merchants of Temple House since 1854, Joseph managing the business in Hobart although then living with Judah at another family property, Vaucluse House, Macquarie Street, until the latter's death. Isaac also had interests in Launceston where he and his wife Elizabeth lived for a time before returning to live at Temple House with Samuel Solomon, possibly another brother. (21) He resided there until 1861. (22) 17.

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He had left the state by 1863 and his assignee arranged the auction of Temple House (Figure 3a and b). It was bought by his half-brother Joseph, who in 1848 had married his cousin, Elizabeth Davis, daughter of the Henry Davis who in 1822 had brought to the Solomons the subscription from the Sheerness merchants which had accelerated the brothers' business successes and enabled the building of Temple House. Davis had married the sister of Judah's defacto wife, Elizabeth Howell. (23)

In June 1880 Joseph stood for the Huon seat in the Legislative Council election against W. Fisher, a contentious contest that saw Solomon win the seat only to have the result declare d void after charges of electoral bribery by the officers of both candidates. At the re-election in Novembe r 1 8 80 Joseph Solomon won, but resigned six months l a ter. (24)

Judah had l e ft him a wealt hy man in 1856, a nd he had managed his estate c arefully , extending his property holdings to Launceston , h i s wife's former home. Apparently childless, his will ( 2 5) made generous bequests to his wife's relatives, the Jewi sh Synagogue in Hobart, the Hobart Benevolent Society and the Hobart Hospital across the road from Temple House . Along with the interest from a substantial investment, he left Temple House for the use of his nephew Samuel Benjamin, the son of Judah's daughter Lydia and he r fi r st husband Henry S Benjamin (26), at one time a storekeeper at Hamilton and late r an innke eper at Oatlands . (2 7 )

Joseph Solomon died in 18 9 4 and Samuel Benjamin and his family returned from Amer i ca to take up residence in Hobart. He had been born in Hamilton in 1839, learned commerce under the gui dance of the Solomons at Temple House from 1852 until their mercantile interests wound up, and had then gone into a shoe manufacturing business with other members of the Solomon family, first in Melbourne and later in Sydney. Here he married Fanny Benjamin. They raised a son and two daughters.

Retiring young, he went to London and Paris, but unwise sharemarket investments reduced his estate. Business ventures in America a t first met with ill-luck, but by 1894 he had achieved success in the leaf tobacco industry in Cincinnati. On h i s return to Hobart after thirty­ five years, he at once became involved in civic affairs. He was made a Justice of the Peace, served two terms as an Alderman, and became an active member of several masonic lodges. He also stood for the Legislative Council but was defeated by the sitting candidate in the 1898 election. His Presidency of the Tasmanian Chrysanthemum Association, the Ornithological Society and the Hebrew Congregation reveal his private enthusiasms (28), though his recorded dictatorial atti tude latterly did nothing to avert dwindling attendance at the Synagogue! (29) 18.

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He and his Sydney-born wife lived in Temple House for over twenty-five years, both taking an active role in community activities, according to a granddaughter, born in Temple House in 1908 and living there until 1918. She was a daughter of Montefiore Benjamin, the son of Samuel. Montefiore and his wife Myra L. Levien, a Melbourne girl, had a family of three daughters and one son. The family lived with the granddparents until 1918. Samuel and his wife stayed on until they too moved to another house in Argyle Street where Samuel died in 1926. (30) Temple House was sold by Montefiore Benjamin in 1921 to the Y.M.C.A.

A diagram, Figure 5, showing part of the family tree of Judah Solomon, indicates the relationships of those mentioned in this account. 19. Tasmania Police Headquarters Archival Investigation

REFERENCES

1. Biographical Register 1788-1939, Gibney, H.J., and Smith A.G., Vol 2, p271; Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol.2. 2 . CSO 16/6/203 copy of 1805 Marriage undertaking by Judah Solomon. 3. CON 13/2, CON 22,CON 31, Archives Office of Tas. 4 . Hobart Town Ga zette 20. 1.1821 5 . Solomon, H.J., The Queer Colony, typescript, Tasmaniana Library. 6. see 3 above 7. Levi, J.S., and Bergman, G.F.J., Australian Genesis, Rigby, 1974, p 262 8 . HRA Series III, vol 4, p552 9 . Colonial Times 18.11.1825 pl (Figure la & b) 10. Solomon H.J., op.cit. ppl6, 17, 38-9 11. Levi, Bergman, op .cit. p262 12. cso 16/6/203 1 3 • Solomon, H.J., op .cit p44; HTG 1841 p256 14. Levi, Bergman, op.cit . ppl36,265 15. Lee, Dr,A.M. Temple House, 1990 Appendix J, in Lucas, C., op.cit. 16. Rutland, S.D., Edge of the Diapora, Collins, Aust., 1988, p33 1 7. Gordon, M., Jews in Van Diemen's Land, Melb., 1965, pp63-73 18. Goldman, L.M., Hist ory of Hobart Jewry, Aust. Jew. Hist. Socy. P & P , 1951, III (V), p218 19. Levi, Bergman, op .cit. p265 20. Will of Judah Solomon, 14.12.1855, Probate Office, Hobart 21. Registry of Deeds, Book 4/4009 22. HTG Ass. Rolls, 1859, 1860, 1861 2 3 • Levi, Bergman, ibid. 2 4 • Solomon, H.J., op .cit. 49ff 25. Will of Joseph Solomon, 23.12.1892, Probate Office, Hobart. 26. Family information 27. Levi, Bergman, op.cit. 28. Cyclopaedia of Tasmania, 1901, pl90 29. Rubenstein, H., Chosen, the Jews of Australia, Sydney 1987, pp 110-111 30. · Personal communication from D & J Hooper; Probate of Samuel Benjamin, Book 32, p410, No 15763, 1926, Probate Office, Tasmania. 20.

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3B OCCUPATION OF TEMPLE HOUSE 1825 - 1921

Commanding the intersection of Argyle Street and Liverpool Street in the heart of the city, Temple House is an example of the 'Macquarie period' of Tasmanian architecture, and a rare survivor of the domestic building of the time anywhere in Australia. It was architecturally avant garde with sophisticated facades on both street fronts, and a unique stone elliptical staircase of great elegance. (1) Until its Argyle Street facade was marred by ugly red brick additions, it was a reminder of the prominence of the mercantile family who lived there for one hundred years.

The dating of Temple House cannot be established precisely, but it is obviously the building referred to in J and J Solomon's advertisement of a recent shipment of goods to their new store, appearing in the Hobart Town Gazette 18 November 1825. (Figure A)

It was built on the land shown on the 1825 location map Chart 6 as located to J Solomon, and appears in the water­ colour of Hobart by Augustus Earle of 1826. (Figure 2) This was the basis for Burford 's Panorama of Hobart Town erected in the Strand, London in 1831, when Temple House was marked 'Solomons Store'. Another panorama appeared in 1831 as the frontispiece of An Account of the Colony of Van Diemen's Land, [T.Betts] Calcutta, 1830, (Figure 4) and there named 'Solomon's Shop' . It was later claimed that construction had cost l500. (2)

Capitalizing on all their skills, the brothers offered tailoring from their store, and the repair of jewellery, watches and mathematical instruments. (3) With sound business acumen, they dealt extensively in town and country land, receiving titles to five of the 144 properties issued by the Registry of Deeds when it opened in 1827. (4) They continued to buy, sell or let profitably. With an eye to a substantial rental no doubt, the new Argyle Street residence, known then as Argyle House, was itself advertised 'for the immediate reception of a genteel family, for Public Offices or for the purposes of trade' in 1826. (5) By 1831 the firm had the agency of at least one ship, by a twist of fate . the Prince Regent in which the brothers had been transported ! (6) Frequent references to bills on J and J Solomon indicate money lending was part of their business activities. (7)

Joseph had moved to Launceston in 1822 where he opened the Tasmanian Store in Cameron Street . He received a conditional pardon in 1833, and a free pardon in 1836, the firm then owning a second business in Launceston and a branch in Evandale. A store in Campbell Town opened in 1838. (8) Judah received a conditional Pardon in February 1832 and, no longer debarred as a convict from doing so, took out a retail wine and spirit licence for the 'Albermarle Head' Hobart Town. Trading in wines and spirits had been a major 21. Tasmania Police Headquar ters Archival Investigation

part of the Solomon business since 1821. Rum and other stores were kept in cellars in the basement, lit and ventilated by small iron grilles still in place, and accessible through two iron gates beneath the bay window of the large room overlooking the hospital. (9) As a result of this trade, Judah faced frequent charges of unlicensed liquor sales, but only once was a conviction recorded, thanks to his counsel's ability. (10)

Judah had left ten children in England in 1819, and some of these came to the colony. Isaac, possibly his eldest son, was in partnership with his father by March 1829 as J and I Solomon. (11) A Mr Solomon had arrived the previous October (12) and Isaac's first land dealing is recorded at the Deeds Office in January 1829. (13)

Judah's wife Esther arri ved in 1832 with two of their daughters, and were accommodated at Temple House until 1837 under the same roof as his de facto wife and their son (14), an unsatisfactory situation that saw Judah move elsewhere at times. (15) It may be he who was living in New Town Road (Elizabeth Street , North Hobart) when the Census Return was taken in 1842 though the personal details given do not tally with known facts. (16)

His domestic situation may have been as strong a reason as a ltruism or commercial advantage, (this was not researched), behind his allowing the hospital to accommodate patients at Temple House during the typhoid epidemic in 1840. (17) At the same time he offered it to the Government for use as a college at a rental of l3 00 p.a., along with other owners of large premises.

From 1825 the local almanacks carry listings of the Solomon firm. It may be significant that the description changes from 'General Dealers' in 1825(19), 1826 (20), 1829 (21), 1831 (22), 1833 (23), to 'M erchants' 1835 (24), 1836 (25) and 1837 (26). The address when given, was 'Liverpool Street' from 1825-1834, but in the Melville almanacks for 18 3 5, 1836 and 1837 the address is '31 Argyle Street'. A half-page advertisement in 1834 indicates the extent of their business.

J & J Solomon general dealers Liverpool Street

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TEMPLE HOUSE J and J Solomon Wine and Spirit Merchants and General Storekeepers (opposite the Colonial Hospital) Liverpool Street 22.

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Respectfully invite the early attention of their Friends and Patrons to their very extensive stock of Wines, Spirits and General Merchandize, as from being so long established and the possession of large capital, they are at all times enabled to avail themselves of offers of Investments, from which circumstances they callenge competition and therefore earnestly solicit the attention of Dealers, Settlers and large Consumers of English Manufactures and Continental produce satisfied one trial will demonstrate the truth of the foregoing assertions.

It appears that the firm 'fulfilled contracts of considerable extent, particularly of wheat ', according to Affleck Moodie, former Assistant Commissary General, writing in support of Judah's petition for a free pardon in 1834. (27) He had also supplied Colonel Arthur with 100 bushels of barley 'as a favor when none could be procured elsewhere' in about 1832. (28)

The real estate holdings of the Solomon family in 1847, no doubt managed from Temple House, were considerable, at an assessed annual value of over ll600, l600 in Judah's name and £1005 attributed to J Solomon, either Joseph or Judah, or less likely Judah's son Joseph, then 22 years old. The rateable value of property owned by the wealthy merchant Henry Hopkins was (808 at that time (29), and that of the wealthiest man in the colony, David Lord, i2027. Hopkins' huge house, Westella, was rated at ~325 p.a.; Temple House just less at ~250. (30) At the time of the nex t property valuation in 1853, real estate held under the name of Judah or J Solomon had risen to il957 assessed annual value, and included a huge warehouse at Salamanca Place (converted to accommodate retired soldiers) as well as valuable properties in the central business district. This may have been used in earlier days to store the wheat supplied by the Government.

The Hobart Town Directory lists the firm Isaac and Judah Solomon in 1847, with a separate listing of Judah as wine and spirit merchant, Liverpool Street. By 1854 Judah is no longer at Temple House; Isaac and Joseph are listed as the· occupiers, in the HTG Assessment Rolls. The brothers business partnership continued till at least 1857, when they are listed as wine and spirit merchants, Temple House, Liverpool Street, in Hull's Hobart Town Directory of that year. Tasmania Police Headquarters Archival Investigatiori 23.

It is not known who actually lived at Temple House through the 1850s, as in 1854 Joseph was living with Judah at , Vaucluse . House in Macquarie Street (31), though he probably ran the business at Temple House. It is known that Samuel Benjamin learnt commercial practice there from his relatives (32) in the 1850s. In 1858 Isaac however described himself as 'late of Launceston' in a land transaction (33), though he had inherited Temple House when Judah died in 1856. He was resident owner in 1859. In that year the value was 1250 and Isaac also owned a very small shop between the livery stables (Site 1) and Temple House, let to David Williams, valued only at t10 p.a. Another shop, listed between Temple House and the Synagogue in Argyle Street, which could only be the shop attached to the main house in all the plans from Sprent's in 1847 onwards, Plans 5, 6, 10-15, was valued separately at €25 p.~., though empty.

From this time Isaac's commercial dealings from Temple House appear to have run down, as the HTG Assessment Roll in 1860 records that the enormous storesection of Temple House lay empty after forty years of profitable trading. He had left the state by 1863, when his assignee John Milward applied to have the land brought under the Real Property Act of 1862. (34) He arranged the auction of 'stately and stupendous premises known as Temple House', suggesting its possible use as hotel accommodation, a metropolitan club or a 'domestic institution worthy of the era'. (35) (see Figure 3) Handsome town house it certainly was when Joseph Solomon, born there in 1825, became the owner. He lived there from at least 1865 until his death in 1894. (36) The warehouse was no longer in use, nor the small shop which had fronted Argyle Street probably from the 1830s, though a succession of tenants occupied the small house-cum-shop attached to the eastern wing facing Liverpool Street from 1859 till 1877.

Joseph and his wife Elizabeth nee Davis were apparently childless. On Joseph's death in 1894 he left Temple House for the use of Samuel Benjamin (37), the son of Judah's daughter Lydia, by her first husband Henry Samuel Benjamin. (38) Samuel had had a colourful life of varying commercial fortune. He returned from America with his family to take up residence at Temple House and enjoy a generous endowment left him by Joseph.

The house remained the family residence of the extended Benjamin family, shared by the wife and children of Montefiore Moses Benjamin until 1918. Room usage and recollections of the surviving residents of that period appear as Chapter 5. Tasmania Police Headquarters Archival Investigation 24.

Samuel and his wife remained at Temple House until 1921 (39) when it was bought by the YMCA. The title was granted to A.T.Davis and others , the trustees of the YMCA (see post-1921 Charts), who also took over Site 1. This had been acquired by Joseph Solomon before 1885 (40). A gymnasium was built on the site of the garden, the first of several extensions between 1921 and 1947 reflecting their increasing membership this century. The property was bought by the Government for the use of the Tasmania Police in 1964. Tasmania Police Headquarters Archival Investigation 25.

REFERENCES

1. Lucas, C., Temple House ... , Hobart, Tasmania, Report for the Dept. of Construction, 1991. 2. Letter from John Mezger dated 17.1.-1845, to support the application by I.Solomon Samuel and David Moses for an official grant of land ,conveyed to them for a Synagogue, Titles Office Hobart, referred to by Dr. A.M.Lee, Appendix J in Lucas. C. op.cit. 3. HTG 20.1.1821 Supp.l. See also Hobart Town Courier 14.10.1846 p.l. Judah had been running a tailoring business in Elizabeth Street and on his retirement referred his customers to his manager's new enterprize. 4. Registry of Deeds, Hobart, Book 1, 1827. 5. HTG 2.1.21826; CSO 16/6/203 pl59 reveals the Colonial Secretary and his family, John Burnett, tenants for a time in Temple House, moved out after discovering Judah was then co-habiting with his housekeeper, the mother of his child. 6. Colonial Times, 15.4.1831. 7. Diaries of John Helder Wedge, (Crawford, Ellis and Stancomber eds.) Roy. Soc. of Tas., 1962, pp 55,61. Diaries of Robert Knopwood, (M. Nichols ed.) entry for 23.10.1828. 8. Solomon, H.J. op.cit. pp 16,17,38-9 9. tLee, A.M.J Temple House, [1990] Appendix Jin Lucas, C., op.cit. 10. CSO 16/6/203 : letter from C.P.M. 8.7.1834 11. Diaries of John Helder Wedge, op. cit. p 55 12. HTC 11.10.1828 13. 1/3 (F 173) 9.1.1829, Registry of Deeds, Hobart. 14. CSO 16/6/203 : Letter 26/6/1837 from Esther Solomon. 15. Levi, Bergman, op.cit. p264; CSO 16/6/203. 16. Census Return, Trinity Parish, pp 37-8 17. Rimmer, W.G., Portrait of a Hospital, the Royal Hobart, RHH, 1981, p45 18. CSO 1/55/6241 A.O.T. letter dated 27.4.1840 19. Bent, A., Tasmanian Almanack 1825 20. Bent, A., Tasmanian Almanack, Hobart Town, 1826, p70 21. Bent, A., Tasman Almanack 1829, pl65 22. Melville, H., The Van Diemen's Land Almanack 1831, p262 23. Melville, H., V ... D ... L ... Aonual~ ~l833 24. Melville, H., V ... D... L ... Annual 1835 25. Melville, H., V ... D ... L ... Annual 1836 26. Melville, H., V ... D ... L ... Annual 1837 27. cso 16/6/203 28. ibid pl73 Arthur had still not paid the debt £26.5.0. --at the time of his departure in 1836. 29. Bolger P., Hobart Town, Canberra, 1974, p48 30. HTG Ass. Roll 1847 31. HTG Ass. Roll 1854 and family information 32. Cyclopaedia of Tasmania 1901, p 190 Tasmania Police Headquarters Archival Investigation 26.

33. Registry of Deeds, Hobart, Book 4/4009. 1858 34. C7/CV/72, Titles Office, Hobart. 35. Mercury 31.12.1863 36. HTG Ass. Rolls, 1865-1894 37. Will of Joseph Solomon, 23.12.1892, Probate Office, Hobart. 38. Personal communication from D and J Hooper 39. Family information 40. HTG Ass. Rolls, 1 885 Tasmania Police Headquarte rs Archival Investigation 27.

4. DEVELOPMENT OF TEMPLE HOUSE 1825 - 1947 : DISCUSSION

4.1 1840 Description

Temple House or, as it was first known, Argyle House (1) appears as a substantial U-shaped brick/stone building in the 1829 Map of Hobart, Chart 2, surrounded on its northern boundaries by a solid wall.

Milward's suggestion in 1863 that the house, in the hands of an entrepreneur, could help Jift the local economy (Figure 3) by offering t o urist accommodation, was a v ariation on a theme. J udah Solomon had offered the house as public offices , a r esidence or place of trade in 1826, soon after it wa s bui lt. (see 1). Whether this was to recoup some of its cost , or because it was obviously too large a house for t he two adults and one baby who were his colonial family, ( even tho ugh part of the house was operated as a shop and wi ne c e llars) is not known.

In 1840 it was in use for a s hort time by the Colonial Hospital (2), when he offe r e d to rent it t o the Government for use as a college. He des cribed it as containing twelve rooms, two kitchens, an extens ive shop, a half-a cre garden and t wo WCs 'thereon'. ( 3 ) Bo th versio ns o f Sprent's plans (Plans S & 6) show extens io~had been made to the U-shaped building shown on the La nd Commissioner's Map, 1826, (Chart 1) and the 1829 plan showing bui lding fabric. (Chart 2)

Records are not available to i ndicate what part of the 1840 building housed the 'ex t e nsive shop'. It seems likely that the shop in the 1 825/18 26 advertisements (4) was the main middle room facing Liverpool Street, approached by a semicircular set of steps to a central door, since replaced by a window. Sprent's p l ans seem to indicate this, as does Photo 8 cl870. They have gone by 1879. (see Photo 4). From 1900-1920 the room behind this centre room was used as a study and this would have bee n well placed as an office attached to a shop. Entry to the residential accommodation w?uld_have b~en through the Argyle Street entrance with_its impressive hall and the staircase l e ading to upstairs bedrooms. As the number of residents in the house increased with the arrival of Isaac in 1828, Judah's wife Esther, the two daughters and possibly other London-born child~en, . all accommodated for some years in an uneasy relationship with the colonial family, it is probable that the separate shop on the northwest corner of the Argyle_Street wing was built to free the central room for family use. Tasmania Police Headquarters Archival Investigation 28.

The change in address in the 1835-7 almanacks from Liverpool Street to 31 Argyle Street may be significant in dating this addition.

Access to the wine cellars below the main room was also available via a steep internal stair below the 'servants stairs' which still lead up from the quadrangle. Cart access to this area via the quadrangle would have been most helpful considering the extensive stock of wines and spirits advertised in 1833 and 1834.

The additional room extending the Argyle Street wing behind the new shop could have been added at the same time or later, either as an office attached to the shop, or as a kitchen of which there were two in 1840, maybe reflecting the problems of housing both the London and colonial families under the one roof ! ( 5) The Assessment Rolls from 1859-1865 list and rate this shop separately, though by then it was empty. (6) The small room added to the end of the eastern wing (Plans 5 & 6) could have had a variety of uses. This could have been the site of the kitchens or it could have been a laundry, its purpose between 1910 and 1920. It is probably one of the twelve rooms mentioned in the 1840 letter.

4.2 The 1863 Advertisement

The Milward advertisement in the Mercury 31.12.1863; (Figure 3) describes the house in great detail. The ground floor contained an extensive warehouse, office, dining room, drawing room, p arlor and hall, with three immense bedrooms upstairs as well as four others also on the first floor. The cellar was considered a great acquisition as the house was built on high,dry ground. Further elaboration on the mercantile sections of the house give a c 1 ue to the layout. "In connection with the warehouse" was a "pi l e of stores, three tiers stone 1-:-uilt" to accommodate merchandize, but capable of being 'transposed into dormitories, saloons, billiard or dining rooms" (note plurals). For the three tiers for stores to be convertible into public rooms as suggested, each tier would have had to be at least 7feet 6 inches high. Only on the east wing could such a space have been available. The area was obviously not any of the front rooms of the house, or the Argyle Street side with its impressive entrance.

When the Solomons advertised merchandise at their new store, they could well have meant exactly that - a new storeroom, i.e. new compared to the house. Photograph 5 clearly shows the east wing of the house, and indicates that it could have been built later than the street facades. The original seems to have been an L shape, the eastern end of the L finished with the same ornamental stone dove-tail effect as the other corners visible from Tasmania Police Headquarters Archival Investigation 29.

the streets . The addition of the east wing was not quite in line with the original eastern end wall, but recessed a few centimeters, the bricks abutting rather than dove­ tailing in. Could this 'store' have been separate from the living area and shop, and either originally or later had three stone tiers for storage?

The local trade directories and almanacks in the 1826 to 1837 period show that besides holding a v~ry ex~ensive stock of wines and spirits, they offered a big variety of general merchandise, both English and C~ntinental. They tised their solid capital base to buy in bulk advantageously and to attract dealers and larger consumers as well as the general publid8). It would appear the firm had the need for huge storage space in the 1830s. As this storage accommodation was not specifically mentioned. in the 1840 l e tter, Judah Solomon may not have intended letting that part when he offered the rest as a college. It is possible that as he was already over 60 years of age, he may have considered either ''shutting up shop" at Temple House or using other premises, such as the Salamanca warehouse which he certainly owned in 1847 and may have done in 1840. (9)

When Joseph Solomon ( 1 8 25-1894) bought the house to use it as a residence only from 1864, could he have had these tiers for storage dismantled and converted into ground floor and first floor areas as elsewhere in the house? The Assessment rating o f the property fell dramatically from ~250 in 1855 when operated by Isaac and Joseph as a 'house and stores' to ~70 for house and 190 for stores (then empty) in 1860, but the ratings on all properties in the town fell at that time. More significant, by 1865, two years after Joseph had bought the property, it was described as 'house and garden'.

The 1863 advertisement raises other problems in considering the layout of rooms at that time if the east wing contained the three-tiered store. 1. On the first floor, there were 'three immense bedrooms upstairs' and four others. If four bedrooms were to occupy the only other area on the first floor, that north of the stairs, they must each have been very small - though possibly considered adequate for servants at that time! 2. Moreover, the steep narrow stairs on the east· side of the house are likely to have been for the servants' use which would indicate that their quarters were on that side of the house and not facing Argyle Street.

Not easily recognisable in the 1863 description was a small shop . Built since the later Sprent plan circa 1847 (Plan5) and its listing in the 1859 HTG Assessment Roll, and with an annual assessed value of only ~10, it lay between No:31 (the livery stables) and No:33 (Temple House) and was numbered 31A. Its owner was Isaac Solomon, and the tenant, D Williams.(7) Plan 12 of 1907 shows it attached to the east wing with its frontage in line with the Liverpool Street Tasmania Police Headquarters Archival Investigation 30.

facade of Temple House. It has gone by 1922 (Plan 11). A roof is just discernible in this position in Photo 5 cl910,and the survey diagram of 18.5.1921 (Plan 14) shows it in outline only, perhaps indicating that by then it was in use as a garden shed or bush house. (see Recollections of for residents at Temple House, 1908 - 1918).

The outbuildings described in the 1863 advertisement are probably those shown on the 1907 plan (Plan 12). Records do not exist to show the particular use of each, but it is likely that the stables and coach were accommodated in the long brick building with a loft,to the north, used as storage at the later period.

4 . 3 Changes to Temple House 1863 - 1918

Sometime between 1870 and 1879 the semi-circular steps to an entry in Liverpool Street were dismantled. They are visible in Photograph 8 (1870) which shows a picket fence and very little garden . The wood engraving of 1879 (Photo 4) shows the steps have gone and a window is in place in the central bay. By the time Photograph 7 was taken, 1890, trees a nd shrubs have grown to at least 3.5 metres, planted it would seem to give some privacy to the groundfloor windows facing Liverpool Street. The gateway remains in the picket fence but the trees are too close to allow for a path through them to the house. It seems the original door to Liverpool Street was replaced by a window. This would have necessitated a skirting along the new wall under the window in the central room. It appears that new skirtings replaced all the earlier ones on every wall of that room, perhaps because the earlier style was no longer available.

The picket fence of Photographs 6, 7 & 8 was unfamiliar to the 1908-1918 reside nts who remember a concrete wall about 80cm high.

The 1907 Metropolitan Drainage Board Plan 1907 (Plan 12) shows that by then the earlier additions which had extended both east and west wings of the house, evident on Sprent's plan circa 1847, had themselves by 1907 been extended to bring their walls in l i ne with the quadrangle and outside walls of the original wings. These alterations are not shown on Chart 5 circa 1887, but it is possible that details of the few buildings that are shown on the chart are not up-to-date. It was prepared primarily to show levels (note survey marks) on city and suburban roads. It is unlikely that Joseph Solomon, then widower and aged sixty­ two, would have embarked on building alterations. It is more probable that they date from the earlier years of his occupancy (1864-1894), or even from the previous decade. Tasmania Police Headquarter s Archival Investigation 31.

Plan 18 on loan to the Department of Construction from Crawford Cripps and Wegman shows detail of the room added above the Study, in the area hatched on the plan of the first floor, in Plan 16. Samuel Benjamin had commissioned the work and the printing style appears to date this plan cl910.

4.4 Post-1921 Alterations

The exact date of the sale of Temple House in 19 21 to the Young Men's Christian Association has not been established, but the survey diagram of 18 May 1921 (Plan 14) preceded the actual change of title.

The new owners almost at once built a gymnasium between the house and the Synagogue on land previously vegetable garden, brick stables, sheds, etc. Plan 11, dated 6.4.1922, shows plumbing detail. A second floor was added to the gymnasium soon after 1928. Plan 10 shows plumbing alterations and Plan 20 shows the new elevation of the gymnasium.

Soon after a tennis court was built on Site 1, the livery stables allotment some of which was used by Samuel Benjamin as a private garden. Plans 10 (19 28 ) and 15 (post-19 28 ) show the tennis court area . These, as well as Plans 19 and 20, show the next alteration to Temple House, the widening of the east wing to provide extra accommodation. Photograph 3 shows a door has replaced the south window of the small one-time shop attached to the Argyle Street side of the house. The date of this change was not researched.

The last change was made in 1947 when the elegant Argyle Street frontage of Temple House was obscured by brick additions bringing the we st wall to the pavement. Two brick wings were added onto the east wall, over the tennis court, evident in Plan 13. At this stage, the original quadrangle was all but completely covered, leaving only a small area to act as light well to the two floor addition, and access to the basement. The coricrete surrounding the quadrangle access to the basement is likely to be post-1921. The residents of 1908-1918 remember playing ball games against the walls of the quadrangle which would not have been practicable had there been a deep pit to avoid. Plans 21 to 24 show the alterations and additions drawn up by the architects Johnston & Crawford. These plans are not dated but the drainage plan, Plan 13, bears the date 3.9.1947. Tasmania Police Headquarters Archival Investigation 32.

l. H.T.G. 2.12.1826 2. Rimmer,W.G., Portrait of a Hospital, the Royal Hobart, R.H.H., Hobart, 1981, p45 3. CSO 1/55/6241 A.O.T. letter dated 27.4.1840 4. Colonial Times 18.11.1825, HTG 2.12.1986 5. Levi, J.S., and Bergman,G.F.~ Australian Genesis, Rigby, Aust., 1974, p264 6. HTG Ass. Rolls 1855, 1860, 1865 7. see note 6 8. Melville,Van Diemen's Land Almanack, Hobart 1833, and Van Diemen' s Land Annual and Directory, Hobart, 1834 9. HTG Ass. Roll , 1 847 Tasmania Police Headq uarte rs Archival Investigation 33.

5. RECOLLECTIONS OF FORMER RESIDENTS AT TEMPLE HOUSE 1908 - 1918 (1921)

Interviews

Mrs D Hooper and her olde r sister Mrs E Macey were the daughters of Mr Monte fiore Benjamin and his wife. They lived in Temple House with a brother and a younger sister and their grandpare nts Samuel and Fanny Benjamin. Mrs Hooper was born in the house in 1908.

Two interviews with her we re taped, one at her own home, and as she and her husband were interested in visiting Temple .House, the s econd wa s taped 'on site '. This clarified her recolle ctio n s o f the usage of some rooms.

At a third intervie w, Mr Hooper, a former Senior Engineer with the E Z Com pany, told me of talks he and his wife had had in t he i nterval with the older sister, now in a nursing home , wh o had been firm in her memories about some aspects Dorothy Hooper had bee n ha z y about. He then prepared an o utlay and notes. His diagrams have been reproduced here , and the following is a synopsis of his notes, based on t he interviews with Dorothy at which he was present and h i s o wn t a lk with the older sister, Eileen.

Ground floor

The kitchen was the r oom a t the northern end of the Argyle Street wing , with a door into the quadrangle, and a door into the passage that led to the family dining room adjoining, f a cing Argyle Street. It had a very large range wh ich provided hot water for the upstairs bathrooms - and presumably the kitchen.

There were two doors on t he kitchen side of the quadrangle, one into the kitchen and one further along. Jack Hooper assumes the second l e d into the passage. Beside the family dining room we re t wo rooms - or annexes - one of which held the cutlery, e tc., Dorothy supposes, perhaps one was a combined passage/room. Food was taken to the formal dining room in covered dishes.

The room fronting Argyle Street, behind the kitchen, (once a shop) was entered through the kitchen. It had many cupboards and shelves and was used as a meal area for the children and thei r nurse, and as a play area on wet days. Tasmania Police Headquarters Archival Investigation 34.

The hall decorations included two busts of aboriginals and a statue.

The corner room with windows onto Argyle and Liverpool Streets was a drawing room with a fire place.

The central room with a bay window was a billiard room, entered through glass doors. The third room along the Liverpool Street frontage was the main formal dining room.

Across the passage from the billiard room was a study.

At the end of the Benjamin 's residence (c1895 - 1921), the grandparents slept in the room, marked B, in the east wing. It had a door onto the quadra ngle.

There were two rooms a t t he end of the east wing, a washroom and an ironing room. (Iro ning required a stove for heating the irons. Was this the second kitchen of the 1840 period?)

First floor

Th e main bedroom was occup ied by Samuel and Fanny Be njamin. The east be droom by their son and his wife, Dorothy's parents.

The room above the study was known as the box room and was used as a bedroom by v isiting grandchildren. (see Plan 18)

The children's nursery was to the left of the stairs. To reach it they pass ed between two bathrooms. That on the right was used b y the adults and was smarter than the one on the left used by the children. (Note in Planl 2 in 1907 the new bath was to be fitted in the right hand room, and the one from ther e installed on the left!)

No details were known of the layout of the rooms i n the servants' area.

There was only one lavatory in the house, upstairs on the east side of the house.

Dorothy thought there were twenty-one rooms; Eileen said twenty-four.

Grounds

There was a large gate at the Argyle Street entrance, locked at night. Fourteen tons of coal and wood were brought onto the premises during the dry part of the year so as not to damage the gravel path in winter. Tasmania Police Headquarters Archival Investigation 35.

The stables building had a loft . (Visible in Photo 5 ) There had once been horses but between 1908 and 1919 the horse and carriage was hired when required.

There was a lavatory near the stables and another further down the garden. (Confirmed by Plans of 1907, 1922)

The vegetable garden was between the house and the Synagogue and had a large walnut tree and a fig tree.

There was a big flower garden to the right - probably between the east wing and the adjoining property - with lots of lavender and daphne. Dorothy took bunches of hyacinths to her teacher from that garden. There was a bush house and, according to Dorothy, an open house topped with glass. Eileen thought it w~s a glass house (enclosed?). In these areas grew orchids and camellia bushes.

Th e re was a large magnolia at the corner of the house in Eileen's memory.

Another garden was barred to the children .

Eileen remembered a 'boat swing' that was t aken wh e n the family moved to another house up Argyle Street.

Other recollections of life in the house

Mrs Hooper's grandmother had inherited a 'secret' recipe for cough mixture which was famous, and considered effective . She used to make this in the kitchen during the war, bottle it, and members of the public who knew about it would come to the front entrance with an empty medicine bottle. The young sisters would give them a bottle of cough mixture the same size and after a~king their grandmother how much to charge, they would take the money, which was kept in a box on the righthand side of the hall. At intervals they would go with their g~andmother to a tobacconi sts shop and use the money to buy cigarettes and tobacco for personal distribution to sick soldiers in the hospital across the road. Posies of daphne, many bushes of which grew in . the Temple House garden, were sold 'down the street" for the same purposes. Tasmania Police Headquarters Archival Investigation 36.

The hall was 'beautiful' in Dorothy's memory, with two busts of aboriginals at the foot of the stairs and a Greek? statue broken by an exuberant visiting grandchild sliding down the bannisters too fast - a habit tolerated before but banned thereafter.

The room on the ground floor at the intersection of Argyle and Liverpool Streets was the sitting room of grandparents who dozed in chairs in front of the fire after lunch. Mrs E Macey recalled ebony furniture. Dorothy remembered a large bookcase, large furniture. Eileen has a large tapestry the work of Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Benjamin (1825-1894) which hung in that room. The main room with the bay window adjoining was a billiard room which was entered through doors with glass off the passage. The children would peep through but were not allowed to enter.

Eileen Macey was firm that the ground floor room to the left was the formal dining room used when guests came. Dorothy had no recollection of it - being younger and probably never eating there.

Throughout their childhood the children were looked after by a nurse, but Dorothy could not remember where she slept. She never entered the servants area, remembering the door at the top of the stone stairs up from the quadrangle was kept shut.

The children ate in the room between the kitchen and Argyle Street (the former shop). It had many cupboards and shelves for storage. The children termed it the 'ball'room, because it appears they were allowed to pl~y with a ball there when the weather was unsuitable for outside play! They ate all their meals here with their nurse except on Friday evening when the family all ate together in the dining room beside the hall. ·

There was a family sitting room on the firit floor, with a table in it. Dorothy was taken up the stairs to this room when she cut her head above her eye while playing with a hoop once, and Dr Ratten came from the hospital to stitch it.

Servants

There were several servants and cooks were often replaced as there would be differences with the well-liked house­ keeper who remained throughout, in her memory. There was a gardener and a yard boy. The gardener slept in the loft above the stables building. Tasmania Police Headquarters Archival Investigation 37.

There was a kitchen maid, two housemaids and a washerwoman who came in most days.

Plan 16 is a diagram of Temple House to illustrate information from the residents , 1908-1918. The presumed layout of the grounds and garden from residents' information is included as Plan 17.

The basement was not used by the Benjamin family, but Dorothy Hooper remembers that 'the gas man' read the meter there.

The picket fence of the cl870 and cl890 photos was no longer there, replaced with a "concrete" wall. This was possibly the wall shown in Photo 3, in place when the YMCA owned the building.

Typescript of taped interviews : discussion

The text of the taped interviews is available from the Department of Construction. It has not been included in this report as the layout and notes prepared by Mr Hooper, the husband of Dorothy (nee Benjamin) and brother-in-law of her sister Eileen, cover all the information the two elderly ladies remembered.

The greater opportunities he had for discussion with them both made it possible for him to clarify many problem areas left unresolved in the interviews taped. Tasmania Police Headquarters Archival Investigation 38.

6. SOURCES

1. PLANS

Plans of the area were sought at Hobart City Council - City Engineer's Department Department of Planning and Development Tasmaniana Library Archives Office of Tasmania Department of Environment and Planning

Early street maps and plans of a general nature with major buildings marked were available from the Archives Office of Tasmania and the Tasmaniana Library. The 1829 plan of Hobart Town showed what buildings were then on the block, and their construction material. The 1896 Chart of Hobart (A.O.T.) , recording boundaries at the time the land was brought under the Real Property Act of 1862 provided references to some land transactions on the block. ( see Chart 4) .

Plans at the Department of Planning record boundaries and rarely show buildings. The plans that were available marked Diagram of Actual Survey dating from 1839 and later contained building outlines within the original survey.

At the Hobart City Council the City Engineer's Department and the Department of Planning and Development produced Sprent's Plans in original and microfilm, and Metropolitan Drainage Board Plans of 1887, 1907, 1922, 1928 and 1947. Records of planning applications held, date from 1916 but are so incomplete that they held only two applications for building alterations on that block, 1970 and 1985. The latter produced a useful ~apy Plan 3.

The City Engineer's Departmerit held a collection of field notebooks of the Metropolitan Drainage Board inspectors for 1906, 1914 and later. Unfortunately the relevant notebook for the block for 1907 was not in the collection, only part of a post-1939 notebook. The plans from the Survey Section of the City Engineer's Department resulting from the Metropolitan Drainage Board Inspection gave useful detail on Temple House and the adjacent property on Liverpool Street. The Sprent Plans were useful for the detail on buildings prior to and in 1847.

~ The A.O.T. hold plans of the extensions to the Police Buildings of the 1950s, PWD 55/5 File No:3 3/33-17, Jan 1947-1957. Some of the plan~ of the 1927 building are included in PWD 266/3262 (A.O.T.) i\ Tasmania Police Headquarters Archival Investigation 39.

Plans of alterations to Temple House, the YMCA gymnasium and the building on Site 1 in Argyle Street are held in the office of Hobart architects Crawford, Cripps and Wegman, 293 Macquarie Street, Hobart. They are on loan to the Department of Construction, and are reproduced here as Plans 18-24.

2. PHOTOGRAPHS

Collections searched : Archives Office of Tasmania Tasmaniana Library Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

From the A.O.T. Photo 8 cl870 and the Cl910 photograph showing the rear of Temple House there were useful details. The T.M.A.G. photograph of Liverpool Street shops, two aerial panoramas and the photo of a procession passing Temple House cl901 reproduced from the Lucas report (see Unpublished Secondary Sources) have been included here, as has the 1890 photo of Temple House in the possession of the Synagogue (also reproduced here from the Lucas report).

3. ORAL HISTORY

Contact was made with : Mrs Dorothy Hooper 364 Park Street New Town

Mrs Hooper had been born in Temple House in 1908 and lived there until 1918. Her recollections of her grandparents Samuel and Fanny Benjamin with whom her family lived provided a fairly clear picture of room usage and the grounds at that time. Her husband, Mr Jack Hooper, reported further information gathered from talks with Mrs Hooper's older sister.

4. ARCHIVAL SOURCES

Census Returns, ~available at the Archives Office of Tasmania, though incomplete for 1842, 1843, 1847 and 1848, were searched but they were not reliable (i) as several Hobart Town residents had the same name, and (ii) arrival and age details given did not tally with known facts. Tasmania Police Headquarters Archival Investigation 40.

The Assessment Rolls for Hobart, published for 100 years from 1847 in the Hobart Town, later the Tasmanian Government, Gazette, were the most useful indications of occupation on the block. Thev record ownershio. occupant and assessed annual value of each property. Changes of owneiship and the addition of new dwellings could be established this way without an exhaustive title search of each property.

Consulting street and trade directories from 1826 to 1896-7 and Tasmanian Post Office Directories from 1890 held in the Tasmania Library often added details of employment.

Records from the Police Department held in the A.O.T., could not establish any building change from 1894, date of first occupancy by the Police of Site 2. The indexes to records numbered TA 242 were scanned, but series under 'Head Office' and 'Hobart branch' refer only to daily operations of the Police. Series 18 in TA 24, (A.O.T.), the Public Works Execution Acts were searched from 1894- 1900 but relevant files on Police buildings had been removed. The 1928 Public Works Execution Acts in the same series yielded financial detail only as many files were missing.

The Colonial Secretary's Correspondence records from 1824-55, numbered TA 151, series CSO 1, CSO 3 (1824-1836), CSO 5, CSO 7 (c1837-1841). CSO 8, CSO 10 (c1841-cl845), CSO 11, CSO 13 (cl845-1847). CSO 24 and CSO 26 (cl847- 1855) were searched for detail of building alterations to the Surgeons Quarters building on Site 3, under varying headings, Colonial Architect, Public Works, Colonial Surgeon, Hospital, Infirmary, without success.

These records were searched under John E. and Hugh Addison, known builders from 1825, but without finding mention of them building a house or stores for J and J Solomon.

Records at the Registry of Deeds and the Titles Office were searched for change of ownership of the Temple House site and the adjoining block on Liverpool Street without complete success, bu~ the files found produced useful diagrams.

The A.O.T. holds records of the Royal Hobart Hospital as HSD 115. Within that group there are a few series which cover part of the time the Infirmary was in use as a women's hospital and nurses' home, but none related specifically to the functioning of the infirmary nor to buildings, and so none of the series were searched.

Time constraints prevented search of the holdings of the Royal Society, at the University of Tasmania Library, and of the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston. Tasmania Police Headquarters Archival Investigation 41.

5. PUBLISHED SOURC ES CONSULTED

Hobart Town Gazette 20 .1.1821 pl; 2.12.1826. Colonial Times, 18.11.1825 Mercury 31.12.1863; mid-April-31.5.1921; September - December 1921.

Many months issues of the Mercury were searched for a descriptive advertisement prior to the sale of Temple House to the Y.M.C.A. in 1921, but the search was abandoned when the substantial townhouse Westella was advertised in three lines across one column in the same paper, seeming to indicate the minimal advertising style of the time.

Most publications held in the Tasmaniana Library giving accounts of colonial life between 1820 and 1855, some in the form of reminiscences, were consulted for contemporary comment, but like the noted diarist G.T.W.B.Boyes, they failed to mention Temple House or its owners. The diaries of Robert Knopwood and John H. Wedge made mention only of bills payable on the Solomons. The Walker family reminiscences, All That We Inherit, 1899, gave colonial background detail only.

Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol.2 Biographical Register 1788-1939, Gibney and Smith, Canberra, 1988 Bolger, P. Hobart Town, Canberra, 1974. Craig, C. Engravers of Van Diemen's Land, Launceston 1963 Cyclopaedia of Tasmania, Hobart, 1901 Goldman, L.M., History of Hobart Jewry , AJHSJ&P III(V) 1951 Gordon, M., Jews in Van Diemen's Land, Melb., 1965 Levis, J.S. and Bergman , G.F.J. , Australian Genesis Jewish Convicts and Settlers 1788-1850. Adelaide Rigby, 1974. Rimmer, W.G., Portrait of a Hospital, the Royal Hobart, R.H.H., 1981 Rubenstein, H. Chosen, the Jews in Australia, Sydney 1987 Rubenstein, W.D., Jews in Australia, Melb. 1986 Rutland, S.D., Edge of the Diaspora , Collins, 1988

Solomon, R.J., Urbanisation, the Evolution of an Australian Capital, Sydney, 1976. Waters, J., The Cultured Mind, The Skilful Hand, Hobart, 1988 Tasmania Police Headquarters Archival Investigation 42.

6 • UNPUBLISHED SECONDARY SOURCES

Robertson, W.G., Hobart Streets, ms bound book, 1919, A.O.T., NS 1374/1 Solomon, H.J., The Queer Colony, typescript, bound, 1964, Tasmaniana Library. Lucas, Clive, Temple House ... Hobart, Tasmania. Establishment of its Cultural Significance, Report for the Department of Construction, Feb., 1991, including as Appendix J a report on Temple House by [Dr. A.M. Lee, 1990]. The photograph, Photo 7, in possession of the Syndagogue, the frontispiece from An Account of the Colony of Van Diemen's Land (Betts,T.J, Calcutta, 1830 and the copy of the watercolour by Augustus Earle, are reproduced here . The plans drawn by Clive Lucas were used as a basis for Plan 16 showing room usage 1908-1918. Dr Lee's work provided a good starting point for this research. Some of the information she found, particularly that on the Synagogue , has been used here. Tasmania Police Headquarters Archiva1 Investigation 43.

7. TABLES

7.1 CHARTS

7.2 FIGURES

7.3 PHOTOGRAPHS & ILLUSTRATIONS

7.4 PLANS Tasmania Police Headquarters Archival Investigation

7.1 LIST OF CHARTS

l . Map of Hobart Town 1826, Land Commissioners of Van Diemen's Land, copied from P.P. Roy. Soc. Tas. 1944 Plate XII I

2 • Map of Hobart cl829 showing construction materials of the buildings . A.O.T. Map 92 (Wrongly dated in A.O.T. inde~ as cl820). Darkest areas or constructions brick or stone· lighter, wood. '

3 . Map of Hobart Streets, ~fter Frankland, cl839]. CSO 8/166/opp.2097 pl97 A.O.T.

4 • Chart, City of Hobart, compiled by W.N.Hurst, April 1896. Survey Office, City Engineers Department, Hobart ✓ and A.O.T.

5 . Chart, Hobart Streets, Metropolitan Drainage Board, 1887, Survey Section, City Engineers Dept., H.C.C.

6 • Detail from Map of Hobart showing locations, 1828. A.O.T. Map 89.

7 • Map of Hobart City cl830 showing streets, buildings, etc. A.O.T. Map 85. Note : boundaries on block, not repr~duced clearly from original, added to copy. I ,~ CHART l

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7.2 LIST OF FIGURES

1. a. Advertisement, Colonial Times 18.11.1825, p 1.

b. Typescript of above

2. Watercolour of Hobart by Augustus Earle, 1826. One of six water colours of Hobart, 1826.

3. a. Advertisement for the auction of Temple House, Mercury 31.12.1863.

b. Typescript of a bove.

4 • Frontispiece o f An Account of the Colony of Van Diemen's Land, rf. Bettfil Calcutta, 1830.

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FIGURE lb.

SOLOMON'S NEW STORE

J. ~nd J. SOLOMON have received, in addition to their former Advertisement, the following GOODS: - Superfine white and printed linen and cotton drill; white, olive, and dark jean; fine stripe jean, drab satin jean. Florentine, olive and drab velveteen; corduroy and thickset; fine linen drill silk stripe; black clouded ·and jean huckaback; linen sheeting; a large assortment of elegant printed furniture; large-sized umbrellas; superfine black, blue, and bottle green coat pieces, with trimmings complete; fine Saxon blue jackets, lined with silk; gentlemens' fashionable London-made waistcoats; ditto, drill trowsers; an assortment of perfumery, consisting of Imperial Windsor soap, Macassur oil, Russia oil, odour of roses, essence of ambergrise , French essences, oils of roses, jessamine and violet; superior blacking~ in pints and quarts; superfine broad cloths; wearing apparel; gentlemens' superfine hats; mens and youths ditto; fine Jordan almonds, Muscatel raisins, bloom raisins of superior quality; currants; fine Scotch bottled ale; Westphalia hams, &c.; genuine Cognac Brandy, 20s. per gallon; ditto 17s; fine strong Jamaica Rum, 12s; Cape Madeira Wine, 7s; Red Wine, 7s.; superior White Wine 10s.; in Quantities not less than 5 Gallons. Gold and Silver Watches; Jewellery and Wedding Rings; Watches and Jewellery repaired. Wearing Apparel made to measure. FIGURE 2

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FIGURE 3b

This day, THURSDAY, 31st December. At 12 for half-past.

STATELY AND STUPENDOUS PREMISES

KNOWN AS

TEMPLE HOUSE

AT THE ANGLE OF LIVERPOOL AND ARGYLESTREETS

SPACIOUS AREA OF LAND

There is a section of the community who believe that the revival of our prosperity could be accomplished by affording ample and appropriate hotel accommodation for the visitors to Tasmania, who are tempted hither by our salubrious climate. We admit the household idolatry of the British people, and gladly suggest TEMPLE HOUSE as admirably calculated for a domestic institution upon a large-scale, worthy of the era. Without presuming to emulate those magnificent edifices abounding in London, and other great cities, or being inocculated with American frenzy for gigantic places of rendezvous; we may yet advantageously observe and learn. And, indeed, it is time that we cast away much of that inertness, which, if not abandoned will inevitably destroy us. An opportunity is now afforded to test the reality of public spirit, and secure a building which could readily be transformed into a Metropolitan Club or Hotel, with abundant space for baths and other incidental appliances required in connection with an establishment, aiming to meet the wants of the day. Tasmania Police Headquarters Archival Investigation

Figure 3b (cont'd)

T E M P L E H O U S E

AT THE ANGLE OF LIVERPOOL AND ARGYLE STREETS, Will be sold by P U B L I C A U C T I O N By order of JOHN MILWARD, Esq., Assignee of the Estate and Effects of ISAAC SOLOMON.

At the mart, Elizabeth street,

On THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31st, At 12 for half-past B Y M R. W O R L E Y Without Reserve.

THESE EXTENSIVE AND CONSPICIOUS PREMISES, have been long occupied as a family residence, and merchant's store, but they are sufficiently extensive for more than private accommodation or enterprise. The buildings are of stone and brick, and thoroughly substantial. Standing on high and dry ground, the cellarage is necessarily a great acquisition. On the main floor are extensive warehouse, office, dining room, drawing room, parlor, and hall. The upper story comprises three immense bed rooms, and four others, in short, the conveniences are almost unlimited. In connection with the warehouse, a pile of stores, three tiers, stone built completes the accommodation for merchandize; but this portion of the property could be transposed into dormitories, saloons, billiard or dining rooms, thus adding to the vast commodiousness, of the premises. The open space interiorly, comprises a large garden terminated by the Jewish Synagogue, and a slip of cultivated land bounded by Liverpool-street. Also, stables, coach house, kitchen, washhouse, and other outbuildings, which have from time to time been added without regard to cost. The land may be designated as a very large area for town property, 271 links along Argyle-street, and 159 links along Argyle-street, with considerable depth, which however, could only be rightly estimated by personal inspection. Title new grant, possession upon completion of purchase. Terms - 12~ per cent. deposit, 12~ in 30 days, 25 per cent. at three or six months, with bank interest, and the remainder may remain for a term of years at 7 per cent. or the purchaser may pay cash for the whole amount. Further particulars can be obtained of John Milward, Esq, Assignee, George Pritchard, Esq, Solicitor, Macquarie street, and of Mr. Worley, at the mart. FIGURE 4

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7.3 LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

1. Liverpool Street shops at Campbell Street intersect.±011 with old Children's Hospital in the foreground, cl942. T.M.A.G. Q 13093

2. Panorama taken by the H.C.C., T.M.A.G., dating 1940-45

3. Photograph of Temple House reproduced from Y.M.C.A. Jubilee Booklet, 1932, pll. Post-1923. Whereabouts of original unknown.

4. Wood engraving, Australasian Sketcher 10 May 1879 from original drawing by A.C.Cooke, showing buildings on Liverpool Street with fair accuracy.

5. Photograph cl910. Rear view of Temple House and Butler/stables property - taken from Cruikshank Building of Technical College(?) NS 392/734 A.O.T.

6. cl901 Photograph of procession down Liverpool Street, past Temple House, Q 8290, Tas. Museum and Art Gallery.

7. Photograph of Temple House, cl890 in possession of the Synagogue.

8. View of Hobart from old Hospital cl870, photograph 52/61, Photograph Collection, A.O.T.

9. Aerial view of Hobart. Section showing block (Liverpool, Campbell, Bathurst and Argyle Streets). 1940s. q.2450, T.M.A.G. PHOTOGRAPH 1

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7.4 LIST OF PLANS

1. Allotment adjoini ng Temple House, Liverpool Street. C.T. vol .CCXCIX fol 58, Titles Office Hobart, 19.5.1922 See folder

2. Allotment adjoining Temple House, Liverpool Street. Diagram of Actual Survey, 3/132, Dept. of Planning & Environment, pre-1840 See folder

3 . Tasmanian Police Headquarters, Hobart, Stage lA. Dept. of Construc tion, 1985. See folder

4 • Position of Hospi tal 1835. Plan reproduced from Rimmer, W.G., Portrait o f a Hospital, the Royal Hobart. R.H.H . , Hobart, 1973, p21

5 . Plan of block (Liverpool, Argyle, Bathurst, Campbell Streets), Sprent Book page 32, cl847. Depart. of Enviro nme nt & Planning. See folder

6 . Plan of same block a s i n Plan 5. Sprent Book page 7. Slight d iffe rences from Plan 5 date this between cl84 2-18 47. Survey Section, City Engineer's Office , H.H.H. See folder

7. Plan of the same block, Metropolitan Drainage Board Plan, H.C.C., dl928. Survey Section, City Enginners Dept. H.C.C. See folder

8. Hobart Detail Plan, (Liverpool, Argyle, Bathurst Campbell Streets ) 1960. Survey Section, City Engineers Dept. H.C.C. See folder

9. Block (Liverpool , Argyle, Bathurst, Campbell Streets) from Chart, City of Hobart 1896 (included as Chart 4). Magnification. Archives Office of Tasmania. See folder

10. Plan of drainage for Y.M.C.A. 13.11.1928. Survey Section, City Engineers Dept. H.C.C. See folder Tasmania Police Headquarters Archival Investigation

11. Plan of drainagef6r Y.M.C.A. 6.4.1922, Survey Section, City Engineers Dept. H.C.C. See folder

12. Plan of drainage for Solomon's Estate, 7.5.1907, Survey Section, City Engineers Dept. H.C.C. See folder

13. Plan of drainage for Y.M.C.A. 3.9.1947 Survey Section, City Engineers Dept. H.C.C. See folder

14. Diagram of Actual Survey of Temple House site and adjoining allotment, Liverpool Street, 18.5.1921. Dept. Environment & Planning See folder

15. Section from Chart of Hobart by Metropolitan Drainage Board, dated cl905, but with later additions post-1928, Survey Section, City Engineers Dept. , H.C.C.

16. Diagrams to illustrate room usage 1908-1918 from residents' information.

17. Presumed layout of grounds, from resident's information.

18. Plan of alterations, first floor, Temple House, cl910 for S. Benjamin ~ohnston and Crawforctl, on loan to Dept. of Construction. See folder

19. Plan of alterations and additions to YMCA premises, ground floor, ~1922] Eric A Richardson, architect. Plan on loan to Dept. of Construction from Crawford Cripps and Wegman, 293 Macquarie Street Hobart. See folder

20. Plan of alterations to gymnasium, YMCA premises, 19 28. Vohnston and Crawford, architects?] Plan on loan to Dept. of Construction from Crawford, Cripps and Wegman, 293 Macquarie Street, Hobart. See £older

21. Plan of alterations and additions to YMCA premises, Argyle Street, 1947, Ground floor plan. Johnston and Crawford, architects. On loan to Dept. of Construction from Crawford Cripps and Wegman, 293 Macquarie street, Hobart. See folder Tasmania Police Headquarters Archival Investigation

22. First floor plan 1947. See Plan 21, above.See folder

23. Plan of shops fronting Liverpool Street, 1947. See Plan 21 above. See folder

24. Front elevation, 1947. See Plan 21 above. Se~ £older ~:\·: 1·1·::.:.: ~ ~- -:,·· : ,,.,.. ·-·: . ~~> .. :.- .~:_. PLAN 4 Position of Hospital 1835. Plan reproduced from Rimmer, W.G., Portrait of a 'Hospital, the Royal Hobart, R.H.H., Hobart, 1973, p21.

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8. AREAS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH

1. Time constraints made it impossible to investigate further an apparent building adjoining the house on the livery stables site, next to Temple House on Liverpool Street. It is evident in the panorama, Photo No:2, taken by the HCC, dated by the T.M.A.G.1940-45.

2. A small building, possibly the Court of Requests adjacent to 1928 Police Building was not researched . It is apparent in a T.M.A.G. photo from a RHH lantern slide. As it was demolished in 1930 and the site used for Police Court Building 1950s, it is probably not worthwhile pursuing further.

3. Mrs Pauline Osborne, the daughter of a Mrs Westbrook who worked for the Benjamin family as children's nurse at Temple House, may be able to add further information on the occupation of the house in the 1908-1918 era. No contact was made due to time constraints.

4. It is possible that the Survey Section, Engineers Department, H.C.C. which provided the Metro. Drainage Bd. plans for each alteration to Temple House, may have similar plans for other buildings on the block, which would add details of twentieth century changes.

5. The collections of the Royal Society, housed at the University of Tasmania Library, and the holdings of the Queen Victoria Museum, if fully catalogued, may be helpful.