Herbert William Hall Born Christchurch 1884 - Died Temuka 1940 (57). Moved to Timaru 1908.
Partnered with civil engineer Frederick Marchant. Won Gold Medal, for his St David’s Memorial Church at Cave and won gold for his 1928 neo-Georgian Tongariro Chateau for the Mount Cook Tourist Co. His son Humphrey Hall (1912-88) was a prisoner of war, and leading modern architect and as Hall and MacKenzie designed the 1958 Mount Cook Hermitage Hotel who were awarded a gold medal from the Institute of Architects for the design
Was awarded the New Zealand Institute of Architect’s highest honour, its Gold Medal, for his design of the St David’s Memorial Church at Cave. Designed the Chateau Tongariro at Tongariro National Park.
attended Canterbury College School of Art (now Canterbury University), studying with Samuel Hurst Seager. He also won a gold medal prize for architecture while at Canterbury College.
Herbert Hall in partnership with Frederick Marchant.
Hall & Marchant designed the original core building at Timaru Boys' High School now demolished
Two houses on Sealy St have been lost – one to a suspected arson attack; the other to allow the expansion of the supermarket adjacent.
Both the Caroline Bay Hall and the 1912 Hydro Grand hotel have suffered from crude renovations and neglect, although their essential character survives.
St David's, the little stone church near Cave, one will find the gold medal of the New Zealand Institute of Architects awarded to Herbert Hall in 1935 for his outstanding contribution to New Zealand architecture.
Timaru architectural partnership Hall and Marchant was also responsible for the Hydro Grand Hotel in Timaru (1912, demolished) and the Carnegie Library in Fairlie (1912-14). Frederick Marchant (1852-1917) was a civil engineer by training and was in partnership with G Laing-Meason in the 1880s and 1890s; he registered as an architect in 1914. Herbert Hall (1884-1940) was born and educated in Christchurch and trained with Fred Barlow and the Luttrell Brothers before establishing himself in Timaru in c.1908 and registering as an architect in 1918. Hall also designed the South Canterbury War Memorial in Timaru (1925, heritage item # 17), St David’s Pioneer Memorial Church at Cave (1930) and the Chateau in Tongariro National Park (1928).
1925 - Te Weka Street Residence
1910-10 - ‘Sundrum’, former Spencer house, English Domestic Revival. 52 Rae Road, Woodbury
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Poster, 'Chateau Tongariro', circa 1932, Wellington, by New Zealand Railways Publicity Branch, Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie, Ltd. Purchased 2001. Te Papa (GH014052) No Known Copyright Restrictions
The luxurious Chateau Tongariro opened in 1929 in Tongariro National Park and was owned by the New Zealand government's tourism department. The Chateau's civilised Regency-style portico is contrasted with the dangerously erupting snow-covered mountain. The figures populating the poster imagery are dressed for any occasion; be it sport out in the 'wild' or relaxing on the balcony.
The opening of the North Island main trunk railway in 1908 had provided a major boost to New Zealand's fledgling tourist industry, including opening up the central North Island’s Tongariro National Park, which became a popular holiday area in the 1920s.