Harry Mandeno
Illustration — Dunedin Town Hall • Illustration — Dunedin Central Fire Station Henry Thomas Mandeno (20 June 1879 – 20 August 1973) was a New Zealand modernist architect.
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Harry Mandeno
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- Born
- 1879 · Te Awamutu.
- Died
- 1973
- Nationality
- New Zealand
- Occupation
- architect
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Illustration — Dunedin Town Hall • Illustration — Dunedin Central Fire Station Henry Thomas Mandeno (20 June 1879 – 20 August 1973) was a New Zealand modernist architect.
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Harry Mandeno (1879–1973) was an architect, of New Zealand nationality. The architect was born in Te Awamutu.
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Mandeno was born in 1879 at Te Awamutu to John Howe Mandeno and Margaret Caroline (née Leighton), and was educated at St John's College in Auckland. After graduating, he moved to Dunedin to live with his sister.
Professional career
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Mandeno first worked for builder Robert Crawford, while studying architectural draughtsmanship in night classes. Mandeno worked as an assistant at the architectural firm Mason & Wales, before setting up his own practice, with offices in the New Zealand Express Company building, in 1911. Mandeno's first major commission was the King Edward Technical College (which now has Category I heritage listing), for which he needed to take on an assistant, Roy Fraser. Mandeno entered into partnership with Roy Fraser in 1921. Mandeno and Fraser, later Mandeno, Fraser and Galbraith, were one of the most prominent architectural firms in Dunedin. In 1913 they won the contract to build the Dunedin Town Hall concert hall and auditorium. They later designed numerous private residences and were noted for their "carefully detailed buildings". They designed the entrance to St James Theatre, and many of the fire stations in Dunedin. Mandeno became a member of the New Zealand Institute of Architects at its incorporation in 1913, and was elected president in 1931.
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Mandeno married Alice Emily Coull in 1908. He died in 1973 and is buried with his wife in the Anderson's Bay Cemetery in Dunedin.
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- 1.Thomson, J. (ed.) (1998) "Southern people: A dictionary of Otago Southland biography."Dunedin: Longacre Press. pp. 325–6.
- 2.Gilbert, Helen. Mandeno, Harry. Historic Cemeteries Conservation Trust of New Zealand.
- 3.Advertisements. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz.
- 4.Dunedin City Council. Dunedin Contextual Thematic History – Theme 10: Residential development.
- 5.NZHPT 7205 St James Theatre 2 June 2020
- 6.Murray, David. The Perry residence. Built in Dunedin. 21 October 2014.
- 7.Dungey, Kim. Grey Walls springs surprises. Otago Daily Times. 10 July 2017.
- 8.Architects' Institute. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz.
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