Oakden, Addison and Kemp

Oakden, Addison and Kemp was an Australian architectural firm in Melbourne, Victoria. While it was short lived, existing from only 1887 to 1892, they designed a number of outstanding projects, and all three members designed many more notable projects in earlier and later partnerships.

Oakden, Addison and Kemp

Former type	Partnership
Industry	Architecture
Fate	Dissolved
Predecessor	Terry and Oakden
Successor	Oakden and Ballantyne
Founded	1887 (1887) in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Founders	Percy Oakden George Addison Henry Kemp
Defunct	1896 (1896)

The firm began as Terry & Oakden, a partnership of architects Percy Oakden and the prolific Leonard Terry[1] from 1874 until Terry's death in 1884.[2]George Henry Male Addison and Henry Hardie Kemp then joined in 1887, creating Oakden, Addison & Kemp.[2] Addison, who had started a Brisbane branch in 1889 left in 1892, leaving Oakden and Kemp[2] practicing until Kemp moved to Sydney in 1895, dissolving the partnership in 1896.[2]

In 1900 Oakden took on Cedric Henry Ballantyne to become Oakden & Ballantyne, until Oakden died in 1917.[2][3]

One of the earliest projects was North Park, a large mansion for Alexander McCracken, of McCracken's Brewery, completed in 1888, which was amongst Melbourne's first examples of the Queen Anne style. The firm was then took on the design of Australia's first skyscraper (together with John Beswicke), the 12 storey Australian Property Investment Co. Building (later known as the APA building) in Elizabeth Street, amongst the tallest in the world in 1889, it remained Australia's tallest until 1912, and Melbourne's tallest until 1929. It was also designed in the new Queen Anne fashion, the tall spikes and spires of the roof adding to its verticality. The next year they designed the more conventional, but still tall, premises for the Young Men's Christian Association headquarters, with its mansard roofs and internal hall. The YMCA never occupied it, due to the financial crash of the 1890s, which also curtailed the work of the firm, and soon lost Addison as a partner in 1892 to establish a practice in Brisbane.

List of works

Ballarat Town Hall

Percy Oakden

• 1870: Ballarat Town Hall, Sturt Street, Ballarat (final overall composition by Oakden)[4]
• 1872: Wesleyan Church, Sydney Road, Brunswick[5]
• 1873: Clunes Town Hall and Court House, Bailey Street, Clunes[6]
• 1887: St Albans Village Plan Precinct, Victoria and Albert Crescents, St Albans[7]

Terry & Oakden

• 1874: Former Methodist Church, Church Street, Fitzroy North[8]
• 1875: Former Australia and New Zealand Bank (ANZ) building, 49-51 Reid Street, Wangaratta.[9]
• 1876: Ercildoune, Napier Street, Footscray[10]
• 1881: Front addition to town house, Gipps Street, East Melbourne[11]
• 1883: Francis Ormond Building, Workingmen's College (first stage), La Trobe Street, Melbourne[12]
• 1884: Former English, Scottish and Australian Bank, Alexander Road, Ascot Vale[13]
• 1887: Queens College, Melbourne University [14]

Oakden, Addison & Kemp

The APA Building in Melbourne, designed by Addison and Kemp, was demolished in 1980.

• 1887: Former Wesleyan Church and Manse, 21 -23 Highbury Grove, Kew[15]
• 1888: North Park, Woodland Street, Essendon[16]
• 1888: South Australian Insurance Building (originally New Zealand Chambers), Collins Street, Melbourne[17]
• 1888: Wesleyan Church, Hesse Street, Queenscliff[18][19]
• 1889: ANZ Bank Building, Fitzroy North[20]
• 1889: ANZ Bank, Napier Street, St Arnaud[21]
• 1889: former London Chartered Bank, 370-74 Queens Parade, Fitzroy North[22]
• 1889: Australian Property Investment Co. Building, Elizabeth Street, Melbourne (with John Beswicke)[23]
• 1889: Thomas Gaggin House, Alma Road, Camberwell[24][25]
• 1889: Dr Thomas Rowan House, Alton Road, Mount Macedon[26] (demolished)
• 1890: former YMCA (now Salvation Army Temple), Bourke Street, Melbourne[27]
• 1890: Terrace House, 16 Jolimont Terrace, East Melbourne[28]
• 1890-92: Francis Ormond Building, Workingmen's College (second stage), La Trobe Street, Melbourne[12]

Oakden & Ballantyne

• 1901: Ivanhoe Metropolitan Fire Station, Upper Heidelberg Road, Ivanhoe[29][30]
• 1901: The Wilderness Homestead Second House, Wilderness Road, Gritjurk[31][32]
• 1910: Hawthorn Fire Station, William Street, Hawthorn[33][34]
• 1910: New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company Ltd Building, Collins Street, Melbourne[35]

References

1. Miles Lewis. "Terry, Leonard (1825–1884)". adb.anu.edu.au. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
2. Lewis, Miles (1974). "Oakden, Percy (1845–1917)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
3. "Obituary: Mr. Percy Oakden". The Argus. 26 November 1917. Archived from the original on 28 September 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
4. "Victorian Heritage Database: Ballarat Town Hall". vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au. Heritage Council Victoria. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
5. "Victorian Heritage Database: Former Wesleyan Church and Model Sunday School". vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au. Heritage Council Victoria. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
6. "Victorian Heritage Database: Clunes Town Hall and Court House". vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au. Heritage Council Victoria. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
7. "Victorian Heritage Database Report: St Albans Village Plan Precinct". vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au. Heritage Council Victoria. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
8. "Victorian Heritage Database: Former Methodist Church". vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au. Heritage Council Victoria. Archived from the original on 25 September 2018. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
9. "Victorian Heritage Database Report : Former ANZ Bank". vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au. Heritage Council Victoria. Archived from the original on 25 September 2018. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
10. "Victorian Heritage Database: Ercildoune". vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au. Heritage Council Victoria. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
11. "Victorian Heritage Database: Town House". vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au. Heritage Council Victoria. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
12. "Victorian Heritage Database: Francis Ormond Building (RMIT Building 1)". vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au. Heritage Council Victoria. Archived from the original on 25 September 2018. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
13. "Victorian Heritage Database: Former ES&A Bank". vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au. Heritage Council Victoria. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
14. "Queens College Melbourne". The Weekly Times. 30 April 1887. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
15. "former Wesleyan Church and Manse". vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
16. "Victorian Heritage Database place details: Former North Park". vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au. Heritage Victoria. Archived from the original on 25 September 2018. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
17. "South Australian Insurance Building". Victorian Heritage Database. Victorian Heritage Council. Archived from the original on 30 November 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
18. "Victorian Heritage Database: Former Wesleyan Church and Methodist Sunday School, 81 Hesse Street, Queenscliff". vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au. Heritage Council Victoria. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
19. "History of the Wesleyan Church of Queenscliff". The Queenscliff Sentinel. 30 March 1889. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
20. "ANZ Bank". Victorian Heritage Database. Victorian Heritage Council. Archived from the original on 30 November 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
21. "Victorian Heritage Database: ANZ Bank (former London Chartered Bank), 86 Napier Street, St Arnaud". vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au. Heritage Council Victoria. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
22. "ANZ BANK". vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
23. "Victorian Heritage Database: Australian Property Investment Co Building". vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au. Heritage Council Victoria. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
24. "Victorian Heritage Database Report: Thomas Gaggin House" (PDF). vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au. Heritage Council Victoria. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
25. Chris McConville. Camberwell Conservation Study 1991: Significant Sites Volume Four: House, 25 Alma Road (PDF). Graeme Butler & Associates. pp. 10, 11. Retrieved 27 September 2018. Architecturally, it is an early prototypical examp!e of a later common villa style (particularly In Camberwell), designed by a prominent architectural firm...
26. "Victorian Heritage Database Report: Alton". vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au. Heritage Council Victoria. Archived from the original on 25 September 2018. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
27. "Victorian Heritage Database Report: Salvation Army Temple". vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au. Heritage Council Victoria. Archived from the original on 25 September 2018. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
28. "Victorian Heritage Database:". vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au. Heritage Council Victoria. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
29. "Victorian Heritage Database: Ivanhoe Metropolitan Fire Brigade Station". vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au. Heritage Council Victoria. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
30. "Victorian Heritage Database Report: Ivanhoe Metropolitan Fire Brigade Station". vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au. Heritage Council Victoria. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
31. "Victorian Heritage Database: Wilderness Homestead Complex". vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au. Heritage Council Victoria. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
32. "Victorian Heritage Database Report: Wilderness Homestead Complex". vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au. Heritage Council Victoria. Archived from the original on 30 September 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
33. "Victorian Heritage Database: Former Hawthorn Fire Station". vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au. Heritage Council Victoria. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
34. "Victorian Heritage Database Report: Former Hawthorn Fire Station". vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au. Heritage Council Victoria. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
35. "Victorian Heritage Database: Former New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company Ltd Building". vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au. Heritage Council Victoria. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2018.

Further reading

• Lewis, Miles (December, 1977) Architectural Drawings As Historical Sources in The La Trobe Journal, No. 20, pp: 69-89 (The Friends of the La Trobe Library) ISSN 0041-3151