Australia's first real building : Governor Arthur Phillip's portable house, Sydney Cove, 1788 / by Robert Irving

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2018

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1 volume (28 pages) - typescript, printed
1 computer file - digital, PDF

Robert Irving is an architectural historian, a Fellow and former President of the Royal Australian Historical Society, and was a senior lecturer in Architecture at the University of NSW. He was the co-author of 'Identifying Australian Architecture' published in 1989, as well as several other works including 'First Views of Australia 1788-1825' (1987), 'The History and Design of the Australian House' (1985), and 'Fine Houses of Sydney' (1982).

'Australia’s First Real Building: Governor Arthur Phillip’s Portable House, Sydney Cove, 1788' investigates the portable canvas house that Phillip moved into in Sydney in February 1788, on the eastern side of what was to become known as the Tank Stream. A prefabricated dwelling of timber-framed panels covered with oilcloth, it cost £130 and measured forty-five feet long, 17 feet 6 inches wide, and 8 feet high (13.7 x 5.3 x 2.4 metres). The house kit, manufactured in London in 1786 by the firm Smith & Baber, was brought on the first fleet and assembled to serve as a residence for Governor Phillip until the first government house was erected.

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Unpublished typescript manuscript of 'Australia's first real building : Governor Arthur Phillip's portable house, Sydney Cove, 1788' by Robert Irving

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Digital computer file of 'Australia's first real building : Governor Arthur Phillip's portable house, Sydney Cove, 1788' by Robert Irving

In copyright:
Copyright holder:: Robert Irving
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder