Rowland Rees
Rowland Rees (25 September 1840 – 13 October 1904) was an Australian architect, civil engineer and politician. Born in Gibraltar and educated in Hong Kong and Sheffield, he moved to Adelaide in 1869. In November 1870 he married Ada Caroline, daughter of an Adelaide solicitor.[1]
He began his architectural practice immediately upon arriving in the colony, initially in partnership with Thomas English. His work was usually characterised by bold decorative elements such as capitals, pilasters and pediments.
He was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly as member for The Burra (1873–75), Burra (1875–81) and Onkaparinga (1882–90).[2] He advanced liberal ideas, such as free education, the regulation (rather than banning) of gambling, and equal divorce rights for women. Rees was a member of the South Australian Institute from 1878, and helped to select works for the South Australian State Collection.
His granddaughter was the homeopath Dr Margery Blackie.[3]
Selected works
- Moonta Methodist Church (1873)
- Essenside, Glenelg (1873)
- Downer House, North Adelaide (1877)
- Kither's Buildings, Rundle Street (1879)
- Adelaide to Glenelg Railway (1879–80)
- Huntsman (now Archer) Hotel, North Adelaide, (1882)
- Lobethal Woollen Mills (1883)
- British Hotel, North Adelaide (1883)
- Oxford Hotel, North Adelaide (1884)
- Cumberland Arms Hotel, Waymouth Street (1884)
- Newmarket Hotel, North Terrace (1884)
- St Peters Town Hall (1885)
- Fulton's Foundry, Kilkenny (1885–86)
See also
References
- ↑ Feeney, Alan (1976). "Rees, Rowland (1840 - 1904)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: Australian National University. Retrieved 30 January 2009.
- ↑ "Rowland Rees". Former Member of Parliament Details. Parliament of South Australia.
- ↑ "Margery Grace Blackie (1898–1981)". ODNB. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
External links
- Rowland Rees, architectsdatabase.unisa.edu.au