• Title
  Proposed house Nth Curl Curl for W. M. Farley Esq. / Sydney Ancher, architect
• Creator
  W. M. (William Mervyn) Farley
• Call number
  PXD 1480
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  4 September 1947
• Type of material
  Architectural and Technical Drawings
• Reference code
  1011835
• Physical Description
  1 architectural drawing - blueprint, pencil annotations - 50 x 73 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Sydney Ancher (1904-1979) was a Sydney architect who had a significant impact on the establishment of modern domestic architecture in Australia. He was a founding partner of renowned Sydney architectural firm Ancher, Mortlock, Murray and Woolley.
  In 1947 he was commissioned by Mervyn Farley, of Farley and Lewers construction and quarry business, to design a family house on land in the Windy Dropdown Estate at North Curl Curl, on Sydney’s northern beaches. The design, in Ancher’s mid-century modernist style, was flat-roofed, a feature which caused its rejection for building approval by Warringah Shire Council in 1948. An appeal to the Land and Valuation Court resulted in a ruling in favour of Farley, linking the advancement of architectural design with general cultural progress. The house, known as “Windy Dropdown”, was sold by the Farley family in 1998 and remains intact, with some later renovations and additions.
  
  References:
  Library correspondence file
  The Sun, Sunday 28 March 1948, page 2. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228992608 (accessed 27 April 2018)
  
• Collection history
  The drawing had been stored in the house until taken into possession by Mervyn Farley's grandson, Simon Bracken
• Scope and Content
  One blueprint sheet of architectural drawings by architect Sydney Ancher for a house, later known as “Windy Dropdown”, to be built at North Curl Curl. The sheet contains the floor plan, four elevations, one section and a site plan. On the reverse of the sheet are calculations and sketches for the construction of the house, written in pencil.
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright
  Rights and Restrictions Information:: No reproduction without prior written approval of copyright holder
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Ancher, Sydney, 1904-1978
  
• Subject
  Architecture, Domestic--New South Wales--Sydney.
  Architecture, Modern.
  Dwellings--New South Wales--Sydney.
  
• Place
  North Curl Curl (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE9624881

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