Lawrence, Tony and Joan : Architectural drawings by G.W. Gough
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Reference NumberMS-4673CreatorLawrence, TonyLawrence, JoanDescriptionThe collection includes digital copies of house plans drawn by G.W. Gough. History / BiographyGeorge William Gough was a naval and civil architect in Dunedin. He was born at Manchester in 1863 and educated at Rothesay in Scotland. He studied naval architecture under the shipbuilders Napier & Sons and Henderson & Co. in Glasgow, and civil architecture with George Melrose in Rothesay. After working in Canada and the United States Gough took charge of an architect and surveyor's office in Falkirk. He arrived at Dunedin in 1886 where he worked for the engineers and ironfounders Begg & Wilkinson before establishing his own business. He was Dunedin's City Building Surveyor from 1906 to 1932, and in this capacity also designed a number of civic buildings.
Lawrence, Joan, Lawrence, Tony and Joan : Architectural drawings by G.W. Gough. Hocken Digital Collections, accessed 09/09/2024, https://hocken.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/61005