Edmund Thomas Blacket family architectural specifications with related correspondence and papers, 1855-1914

MLMSS 156

fonds

1855-1914

Textual Records, Architectural and Technical Drawings

914084

Microfilm : CY 2853, CY 4281, CY 4259

33 volumes and 1 box of textual material

Edmund Thomas Blacket, 1817-1883, arrived in Sydney, N.S.W. in November 1842 and shortly afterward set himself up as an architect and surveyor. He worked particularly for the Anglican Church and was soon known as the Diocesan Architect. In 1849 he was appointed Colonial Architect but returned to private practice in 1854 in order to design the University of Sydney. His practice flourished with an enormous number and variety of commissions for church, institutional, commercial, industrial and domestic buildings.

In 1880, Edmund's third son Cyril, 1857-1937, who had entered his father's office as a pupil in 1872, became a partner and the firm was known as Blacket and Son until Edmund's death in February 1883. Cyril then took his elder brother Arthur, 1848-1928, as junior partner. Blacket Brothers operated until around the end of 1885 when Cyril's health collapsed and he moved to the South Coast, N.S.W. Arthur completed the firm's current commissions and established his own business as an architect and surveyor, retiring around 1896. Cyril meanwhile had returned to Sydney and his architectural practice. In the period 1905-1907 he collaborated with William Baptist Wall and designed a number of buildings as Blacket and Wall. In 1911 his son Pendrill Cyril, 1885-1958, became a partner and the firm was once again known as Blacket and Son

VOLUME 1
Guide prepared in the Mitchell Library, 42 pages

Series 01: Edmund Thomas Blackett, 1855-1882
MLMSS 2X-5X, 6
Architectural specifications with related correspondence, contracts, tenders, estimates, accounts and notes. All relate to work in N.S.W.
Includes printed organ catalogues, 1862-1880, and MS list of musical instruments displayed at the Sydney International Exhibition, 1879-1880

Series 02: Blacket and Son, 1880-1885
VOLUMES 7X-10X
Architectural specifications with related correspondence, contracts, tenders, estimates, accounts and notes. All relate to work in N.S.W.

Series 03: Blacket Brothers, 1883-1891
VOLUMES 11X-17X
Architectural specifications with related correspondence, contracts, tenders, estimates, accounts and notes. All relate to work in N.S.W.

Series 04: Arthur Blacket, 1886-1893
VOLUMES 18X-23X, 24
Architectural specifications with related correspondence, contracts, tenders, estimates, accounts and notes. Most relate to work in N.S.W., but included are projects in Rockhampton, Queensland, 1888-1890

Series 05: Cyril Blacket, 1892-1911
VOLUMES 25-30
Architectural specifications with related correspondence, contracts, tenders, estimates. Most relate to N.S.W. but included are projects in Ballan, Victoria, 1892, and at Noorindo station, Queensland, 1888-1890

Series 06: Blacket and Wall, 1905-1907
VOLUME 31
Architectural specifications with related contracts and notes. All relate to work in N.S.W.

Series 07: Blacket and Son, 1911-1914
VOLUMES 32-33, 34X
Architectural specifications with related correspondence, contracts, estimates and tenders. All relate to work in N.S.W.

Series 08: Miscellaneous and Unidentified Papers, n.d.

Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (7-1186C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011

Keyword subjects:

Musical instruments -- Australia