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403495
  • Title
    Henry E. White : St. James Theatre and Offices, Sydney, architectural drawings, [between 1925 and March 1926]
  • Call number
    PXD 809/Folder H
  • Level of description
    series
  • Date

    [between 1925 and March 1926]
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    403495
  • Physical Description
    24 architectural drawings and 1 folder of textual material - 24 drawings and 1 typescript
  • Scope and Content
    Contents:

    1. Basement and stalls plans
    2. Roof stalls and roof balcony plans
    3. Dress circle and upper circle plans
    4. Dress circle and stalls plans
    5. Basement plans
    6. Plans of offices and roofs, and sections of stairs and stage exits
    7. Mezzanine and 6th floor plans
    8. Plans of floors 7-10
    9. Plans of 11th floor and flat roof
    10. Sections
    11. Sections
    12. Sections
    13. Elizabeth Street and Castlereagh Street elevations
    14. Part plans and sections of proscenium splays
    15. Plans of gridiron for theatre
    16. Plans of gridiron for offices
    17. Plans of gridiron for various areas
    18. Plans of gridiron for upper and lower stage
    19. Plans of gridiron for stalls, stage, dressing rooms and fly gallery
    20. Plans of gridiron for roof balcony, upper and dress circles, mezzanine, and roof stalls
    21. Plans of gridiron for side and back walls of stage
    22. Plans of gridiron for auditorium walls
    23. Plan of stanchion footings and detail of main type of stanchion
    24. Drainage plan
    25. Specifications and memorandum of agreement (typescript)
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • General note

    Includes specifications for Messrs Fullers Buildings Proprietary Limited (Sir Benjamin John Fuller and Mr John Fuller Jnr, theatre proprietors)
    All folios show damage at bottom right corner
  • Date note

    Date range from period of White's position as architect of St. James Theatre and the Theatre's opening date.

    References:
    The Dictionary of Sydney. https://dictionaryofsydney.org/building/st_james_theatre (accessed 11/03/2019)
    Cinema Treasures. http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/4510 (accessed 11/03/2019)
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