Hedley Allen Dunn

Hedley Allen Dunn (27 October 1865 – 5 June 1942) was a South Australian architect, a member of the prominent Dunn family of Mount Barker. His work included the flour mill at Port Adelaide for his father and grandfather in 1886, and the Stock Exchange Building in Grenfell Street, Adelaide, in 1900.

History

Hedley was born in North Adelaide and was schooled at Prince Alfred College for several years before attending The Leys School, a Methodist boys' school in Cambridge, England[1] with his brother Frederick.[2]

He returned to Australia in 1881 and studied architecture with fellow students Frank H. Counsell and Alfred M. Bonython; examiners included E. Davies and E. J. Woods.[3] He found employment with Ellerker and Kilburn[4] of Melbourne, then Oakden, Addison and Kemp[5] for whom he travelled to Auckland, New Zealand to design a health retreat at the hot springs in Waiwera.[2] He worked for a time in Brisbane, then returned to Adelaide, where in 1886 he opened his own practice in Freeman Street. His major project in this period was a large flour mill at Port Adelaide for his father's family business;[6][7] brother Alfred Calvert Dunn was engineer. This superseded an earlier mill designed and executed by Wright, Woods & Hamilton.[8]

In September 1887 he was taken on as partner by Edward Davies in Flinders Street Adelaide,[9] dissolved 1888.[10] They produced a prize-winning design for the new Commercial Bank at 25 King William Street. Dunn designed the elaborate blackwood case for the new organ at the Kent Town Methodist Church in 1898,[11] no doubt pro bono. His design for a building for the Royal Bank of Queensland was rejected, but they nevertheless opened a practice in Queen Street, Brisbane in 1890.[12] He married in Queensland in 1893. He returned to Adelaide and opened his own offices in King William Street, working mainly on residences,[13] but was also brought in to design extensions to the Dunn Memorial Church in Mount Barker, no doubt also pro bono.

In 1899 Dunn collaborated with Gilbert Place, Adelaide architect Henry Ernest Fuller on a design for the new YWCA building (not adopted) and the Adelaide Stock Exchange on the McHenry Street corner, for which they won both first and second prizes,[14] and was built in 1901. He was responsible for the new grandstand at Prince Alfred College in 1904.[15]

Hedley at some stage joined John Alexander Dowie's Christian Catholic Apostolic Church, and in 1903 traveled to Zion, Illinois, headquarters of the sect. If he had hoped for a professional appointment he was disappointed, but impressed with what he saw.[16] From 1919 Dunn practised from his home at 55 East Terrace, Kensington Gardens, and retired around 1934.

He was elected a Fellow of the South Australian Institute of Architects around 1897. He was a Council Member for the Institute 1902–1903 and 1911–1912, and auditor 1904–1905.[2]

Other interests

Hedley was a keen and accomplished painter, and an Associate of the Queensland Art Society in 1894. He was an active member of the PAC Old Collegians. He sang with the Society of Arts and the Lyric Club.[2] He was a member of the Council of Arts.

He was in 1897 elected a Fellow of the South Australian Society of Arts,[17] and for many years served as the Society's auditor. He gave several lectures to the Society on the subject of domestic architecture.

His involvement with the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church extended to giving public lectures in the Federation Hall, Grote Street in the early 20th century.

Family

Hedley was a son of John Dunn, Jr., grandson of John Dunn and nephew of William Dunn, all South Australian parliamentarians.

Hedley married Annie Elizabeth Powis Jordan (1863 – 7 April 1936) in Queensland on 3 April 1893. Annie was the second daughter of Henry Jordan MLA, and a poet and author,[18] a sister of author Harry Hall Jordan (1866–1930). They had at least one son:

Remarkably for an architect, his home, though on a reasonably large block in a highly desirable location, was extraordinarily modest, little more than a "shack" or "weekender".[19]

References

  1. ↑ "Fashion Answers". Critic (South Australia). 31 March 1900. p. 25. Retrieved 13 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia., According to this reference Hedley was an Old Scholar of St. Peter's as wel as Prince Alfred College.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Alison McDougall (1970). "Architects of South Australia: Hedley Allen Dunn". University of South Australia. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  3. ↑ "News of the Day". The South Australian Advertiser. XXVIII, (8421) (South Australia). 14 October 1885. p. 4. Retrieved 13 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ Partnership W. H. Ellerker and Edward George Kilburn 1885–1890 of Collins Street west.
  5. ↑ Oakden, Addison & Kemp had offices in St James's Buildings, Melbourne 1887–1890, then in Edward Street, Brisbane, 1890–1894
  6. ↑ "Advertising". Evening Journal. XVIII, (5354) (South Australia). 7 August 1886. p. 4. Retrieved 13 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ↑ "New Flourmill at Port Adelaide". South Australian Register LI, (12,434) (South Australia). 20 September 1886. p. 7. Retrieved 13 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ↑ "New Flour Mill at Port Adelaide". South Australian Register (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 14 May 1866. p. 2. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
  9. ↑ "Business Notes". Evening Journal XIX, (5691) (South Australia). 16 September 1887. p. 3. Retrieved 13 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. ↑ "Advertising". The Express And Telegraph XXV, (7,492) (South Australia). 30 November 1888. p. 1 (Second Edition). Retrieved 13 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  11. ↑ "Musical Notes". Evening Journal XXX, (8647) (South Australia). 13 August 1898. p. 5. Retrieved 13 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  12. ↑ "Social Doings". The Telegraph (5,410) (Queensland, Australia). 15 February 1890. p. 4. Retrieved 13 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  13. ↑ "A Year's Buildings". The Advertiser XL, (12242) (South Australia). 12 January 1898. p. 6. Retrieved 13 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  14. ↑ "Adelaide Stock Exchange". South Australian Register LXV, (16,649) (South Australia). 24 March 1900. p. 9. Retrieved 13 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  15. ↑ "Advertising". The Advertiser. XLVII, (14,327) (South Australia). 17 September 1904. p. 2. Retrieved 13 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  16. ↑ "Zion City". The Advertiser. XLVII, (14,339) (South Australia). 1 October 1904. p. 10. Retrieved 13 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  17. ↑ "Society of Arts". The Advertiser XL, (12081) (South Australia). 7 July 1897. p. 6. Retrieved 13 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  18. ↑ Her published works include Summer Fruit 1925, and Autumn Leaves 1888, Your Country's Call 1915, One-Tree Hill, 1924 (poetry); True Till Death, 1887 (fiction)
  19. ↑ "Advertising". The Mail (Adelaide) 31, (1,575) (South Australia). 1 August 1942. p. 11. Retrieved 12 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia. Was this a reaction to the grandiosity of "The Laurels" of his grandfather?
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