Main entry:

Broadbent, James.

Title & Author:

The Australian colonial house : architecture and society in New South Wales, 1788-1842 / James Broadbent.

Publication:

Potts Point, N.S.W. : Hordern House in association with the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, and supported by the Friends of the Historic Houses Trust, 1997.

Description:

xxxii, 400 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. The first houses 1788-1805 -- 2. The first verandahs 1788-1810 -- 3. Macquarie Place -- 4. Macquarie Palladianism -- 5. Francis Greenway -- 6. Henry Kitchen -- 7. Houses 1823-1830 -- 8. The development of Woolloomooloo Hill -- 9. The villas of Woolloomooloo Hill -- 10. Architects of the 1830s -- 11. Pure merinos and professionals -- 12. Four amatuers -- 13. Verandahs, verandahed cottages and bungalows -- 14. The new government house -- 15. The depression of the 1840s.

Summary:

The Australian Colonial House is the first comprehensive history of domestic architecture in New South Wales during its first fifty years. It looks at houses that were built and the influences on their building."--Jacket.

ISBN:

1875567186
9781875567188

Subject:

Architecture, Colonial Australia.
Architecture, Domestic Australia.
Architecture and society Australia.
Architecture coloniale Australie.
Architecture et société Australie.
Architecture and society
Architecture, Colonial
Architecture, Domestic
Social conditions
Historic buildings Australia.
Australia Social conditions.
Australie Conditions sociales.
Australia
Australia Social conditions 1788-1851.

Added entries:

Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 192992
Call No.: NA7470.N4.B76; ID:97-B4055
Status: Available