Hedley Carr, Allen and Watts architectural archive

fonds

1925-1990

Graphic Materials, Architectural and Technical Drawings, Photographs, Drawings, Textual Records

9675563

493 architectural drawings
0.92 metres of textual material (1 box and 1 outsize box), includes photographs and drawings

Architect Hedley Norman Carr was born in Orange, NSW, in 1904. He attended Orange High School and Newington College, Stanmore. Completing his architectural studies at Sydney Technical College in 1927, he served his architectural articles with Arthur Anderson at his office at 7 Bridge Street, Sydney. After registering as an architect in 1929, Carr set off on an overseas working holiday, completing work with Swartz and Ryland, Monterey, California, USA; Kenneth M. Murchison, Washington DC; Robert Atkinson & A.F. Anderson, London, UK; W.H. Byrne & Son, Dublin and the Housing Architects Department, Dublin, Ireland. On his return to Sydney in 1936, Carr set up as a sole practitioner at 26 O’Connell Street, Sydney. From 1942-44 he was a temporary architect for the Allied Works Council, providing architectural services to the war effort, whilst conducting limited private practice concurrently. Hedley Carr continued in solo private practice until he was joined in partnership by Clarence Albert Allen in 1951, practising as Hedley Carr & Allen. In 1958, John McEachran Michell Watts joined the partnership, with the practice becoming Hedley Carr, Allen & Watts.
The practice worked across domestic and commercial projects, in Sydney and in regional areas of New South Wales.
Carr died in 1966, aged 62. The firm continued without him until Allen’s death in 1983 and Watts’ retirement in the 1990s.

Reference:
Library correspondence file

On Hedley Carr's death in 1966, the material was kept by Clarence Allen and John Watts, and then by John Watts following Allen's death in 1983. In 2006, Watts passed the material to Donal Carr, son of Hedley Carr.

The collection incorporates the architectural work of Hedley Carr from his early days as a student, his time working overseas and as a sole practitioner, followed by work completed by the Hedley Carr & Allen partnership from 1951 and the Hedley Carr, Allen & Watts partnership from 1958.

SERIES 1
Architectural drawings

SERIES 2
Project files and other records

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