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Anrep.Properties.Final P32-59.Qxd Our museums Historic Houses Trust Annual Report 04 > 05 | Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection established as the Lyndhurst Conservation Resource Centre 1984, renamed 2004 The Mint, 10 Macquarie Street It includes material across a wide range of lined with two very large bookcases originally Sydney NSW 2000 formats: architectural pattern books, made for the Royal Society of New South T 02 8239 2233 F 02 8239 2433 manufacturers’ trade catalogues and sample Wales in the 1880s. E [email protected] www.hht.net.au books, wall coverings, floorcoverings, garden On 1 February the library catalogue went ornament, curtain and blind hardware, door Open Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm online to the public via the HHT’s website. and window furniture, soft furnishings and The electronic catalogue had previously been trimmings, personal papers and manuscripts, available only to those members of the public The Caroline Simpson Library & Research pictures, books and periodicals. Collection is open to anyone with an interest who were able to visit the library in person, in the history of house and garden design and Highlights and to staff via an intranet. The catalogue interior furnishing in New South Wales. forms part of the Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection webpage which also The collection supports the HHT’s work of Relocation to the Superintendent’s Office in serves as a gateway to a Museum Collections interpreting and managing places of cultural the Coining Factory at The Mint has provided database, providing surrogate digital access significance in New South Wales and provides vastly better facilities for both public and staff to two of the most important formats in our a specialist research resource for scholars, access to the Library & Research Collection. collection – around 700 wallpapers and heritage and conservation practitioners and We have better storage for the collection, 300 floorcoverings. The digitisation of this museum professionals. The scope of the greater awareness of the collection and the material and its rollout in database form collection is broad, covering houses and ability to display important items. At the same represents the completion of stage one of a gardens of all kinds and ranging from the 19th time the fit-out has created some particularly project to provide electronic public access to century to the present day. inviting spaces for readers to work and browse, most notably a small reading room the entire object collection. The library 34 Historic Houses Trust Annual Report 04 > 05 | Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection Our visit to The Mint and the Library & Research Collection encapsulated the whole [Design] course in one afternoon. Peter Phillips, Lecturer, UTS Interior Design, May 2005 webpage is also the access point for the Strategies Colonial Plants database, a database of plants known to be available in the colony of New Manage the move of books and objects South Wales up until the 1860s. This is an to The Mint ongoing project aiming to provide The major focus for the first quarter of comprehensive coverage of published nursery 2004–05 was preparing our rare books and Strategies 2005–06 catalogues and manuscript sources including object collections for the move to The Mint: • Maintain existing collection displays at a rate Botanic Gardens records and plant lists scheduling precautionary specialist pest of three to four changeovers per year. compiled by early colonists like Alexander control treatments, rehousing some • Extend collection displays with the Macleay and William Macarthur. collection formats and sending items out installation of display drawers in the for conservation. Following our relocation to The Mint we were Scholars’ Gallery; the development of small, able to take custody of the Clough collection of The second quarter was spent unpacking portable bench-top showcases; and the gardening books. Professor Richard Clough AM, and shelving the collections and installing a location of a free-standing display case. architect, landscape architect and educator, number of object displays in the new spaces. presented this outstanding collection to the HHT • Publish a collection development brochure through the Commonwealth Government’s Open the new facility at The Mint on Furnishing textiles in Australia 1850–1950. Cultural Gifts Program. The collection comprises Since the Library & Research Collection was • Extend electronic presence of the collection more than 2,000 items ranging across the closed to both staff and public in the months on the website through the addition of extra history of publishing about Australian gardens, leading up to the relocation, our major focus collection formats to the Museum gardening, gardeners and plants. since reopening in early October has been to Collections database and through At the same time we received several significant raise the profile of the collection and its further development of the Colonial items from the Caroline Simpson Collection at research potential for both staff and public. Plants database. Clyde Bank, including two oil paintings and a We have conducted a series of tours and number of watercolours by Conrad Martens, two presentations about the collection to groups oil paintings by William Buelow Gould and a of tertiary students and special interest groups. series of lithographs c1853 depicting portable As part of our ongoing strategy to provide iron buildings manufactured in Bristol at Samuel appropriate storage for the specialist formats Hemming’s Patent Portable House Manufactory within our collection we have committed for use in Australia. substantial resources towards refitting the Judges Common Room, next door at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum, to provide display storage for rolled and hung textiles and other large format items which cannot be stored adequately at The Mint. previous page (left to right): Wallpaper sample, Album PR Nouveautes 1937–1938, PR Paris | Wallpaper roll (detail), manufacturer unknown, c1972 | Wallpaper sample, Album PR Nouveautes 1937–1938, PR Paris. Photographs Jenni Carter. opposite page: Rare books on display. Photograph Jom this page (clockwise from top): Bracket valance, c1890 | House name plate, c1928, designed by James Gosper Dodimead (1894–1954). Photographs Jenni Carter | Urn, c1925, Boomerang, Elizabeth Bay, Sydney | Planter, c1925, Wunderlich Ltd. Sydney. Photographs Brenton McGeachie 35 Historic Houses Trust Annual Report 04 > 05 | Elizabeth Bay House Elizabeth Bay House 7 Onslow Avenue Elizabeth Bay NSW 2011 T 02 9356 3022 F 02 9357 7176 E [email protected] www.hht.net.au Open Tuesday to Sunday and public holiday Mondays 10am – 4.30pm The fashionable architect John Verge built Elizabeth Bay House for the Colonial Secretary Alexander Macleay and his family. It is a superb example of Greek revival architecture in a magnificent setting overlooking Sydney Harbour. Furnished to the period 1839–1845 the interiors present an evocative picture of early 19th century life before the Depression of the 1840s forced Macleay to leave the house. Highlights In October, after physical investigation of appropriate paint and timber finishes, the saloon dome soffit was repainted and the cedar window joinery re-waxed. This limited public access to the interiors but enabled a review of interpretation of the property. Access to the first floor was by the servants’ stairs and by guided tour only. We provided support to City of Sydney Council in the approved gazettal of the rock face at the rear of the house under draft amendment No 9 to South Sydney Local Environmental Plan 1998. This cliff face has high archaeological, landscape and social significance and is most important to the setting of Elizabeth Bay House. Breakdown of visitor numbers Paid admission five year trend PAID ADMISSIONS 2005 2004 2003 2002 General public 8,930 13,089 13,233 12,614 Education 1,857 1,507 1,140 1,660 Public programs 328 374 753 595 Venue hire 1,397 1,547 2,167 1,439 Subtotal 12,512 16,517 17,293 16,308 FREE ENTRY Complimentary tickets 2,328 2,993 3,238 3,148 Other (site visits) 695 442 291 151 Subtotal 3,023 3,435 3,529 3,299 12,512 16,517 17,293 TOTAL 15,535 19,952 20,822 19,607 2005 2004 2003 2002 16,308 2001 12,900 36 Historic Houses Trust Annual Report 04 > 05 | Elizabeth Bay House Beautifully preserved, an asset to this city. Vanda Smith, Avalon, Sydney, October 2004 Visual access to the butler’s pantry has been Strategies 2005–06 incorporated into the interpretation of the • Continue to refine the house museum’s property to demonstrate 19th century floral displays with reference to the arrangements, vases and materials, and to 1845 inventory. provide insight into the role and nature of flowers in the historical interior. • Focus on the Changing spaces exhibition. Initiate a program that encourages • Continue to undertake staged maintenance contemporary interpretation of the programs. historic interiors When Christmas bells are ringing was an innovative summer display of 19th century traditional floral Christmas decorations throughout the house together with contemporary floral installations by advanced Objects from the Caroline Simpson Collection students from Pearsons School of Floristry. donation enabled a fuller interpretation of several key rooms, including a Tasmanian Initiate a design competition for tertiary Blackwood pole screen and a small colonial design students cedar sofa c1840 in Miss Macleay’s room; Planning commenced for Changing spaces colonial cedar work table c1835 in the for October 2005, an exhibition re-interpreting principal bedroom; a pair of cedar faux the dining and drawing rooms using rosewood window seats c1830 in the morning contemporary designers and architects. room; and a small Tasmanian Blackwood Students from the University of New South console table c1825 in the upper hall. Wales and the Architecture School of Barcelona will be involved in a design Strategies competition to re-interpret the same Implement programs on domestic design spaces, and models of their work will themes and housekeeping practices be displayed upstairs.
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