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Poor, vicious and unmarried: customers of Hobart Savings Bank

Irishwoman Mary Yeoman entered the drapery store at 65 Liverpool Street early in the morning of March 1st, 1845. As a recently married convict, still under sentence, she could not have anticipated that her next action would be the start Read more…

By Robyn Everist, 1 year1 year ago
Pantheon, Rome
Architecture

Classical orders you’ll see in Hobart

The term classical architecture refers to the architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, in particular the temple architecture of ancient Greece (900 BCE – 100 CE) and the religious, military and civil architecture of ancient Rome (509 BCE – 400 Read more…

By Robyn Everist, 1 year1 year ago
GPO, Hobart
Architecture

How to read a building: Architectural Eras and Styles in Hobart – part 2

This continues from the previous article: architectural eras and styles in Hobart – part 1. Era: Federation 1890 – 1915Style: Eclecticism: Decorative motifs, bits of other styles. The idea with this style is to produce in one building a new Read more…

By Robyn Everist, 1 year1 year ago
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Architecture

How to read a building: Architectural Eras and Styles in Hobart – part 1

This series of articles on the buildings of colonial Hobart will cover: Architectural Eras and Styles in Hobart Classical Orders you’ll see in Hobart Doric Ionic Corinthian Composite Tuscan Traditionally British architecture adhered to a particular set of styles, rules Read more…

By Robyn Everist, 1 year1 year ago
Architecture

How to read a building

As part of the Open House Hobart weekend in November each year, I lead a walking tour of the Hobart CBD, called What Style is it? On this walk we explore and discover Hobart’s fabulous colonial architecture of the CBD. Read more…

By Robyn Everist, 1 year1 year ago
Buildings

“A more hopeless class of subjects?”

A seminar in Hobart on female convicts: In 1859, the Commissioners of the Hospital for the Insane at New Norfolk wrote, ‘It must be borne in mind that a large majority of the patients … confined in the asylum have Read more…

By Robyn Everist, 1 year1 year ago
RSV Aurora Australis
Events

Happy 30th birthday to the big orange roughy.

On Sept 18th 2019, RSV Aurora Australis will turn 30. Within a year RSV Aurora Australis will be replaced by the RSV Nuyina. Nuyina (noy-yee-nah) means southern lights in palawa kani, the language of the Tasmanian Aborigines. Southern lights are Read more…

By Robyn Everist, 2 years2 years ago
People

Getting rid of the Governor

Over the past 216 years Tasmania has had 55 men and 1 woman in the role of governor. Originally the role was titled Lieutenant Governor (1803 – 1855). With responsible self-government, and the name change from Van Diemen’s Land to Read more…

By Robyn Everist, 2 years2 years ago
People

Get to church!

In the early days of Hobart, the only religious instructor permitted in the colony was the Church of England preacher, Robert Knopwood, who was in the employ of the governor. British settlement was seen as opportunity to instill in the Read more…

By Robyn Everist, 2 years1 year ago
Buildings

Macquarie Street: number 103 – Commercial Bank (former)

1866
Victorian Era
Academic Style

By Robyn Everist, 2 years1 year ago

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