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UQFL 116

W Hodgen & Hodgen collection
Architectural Records
1898 - 1943

Size

25 manuscript boxes, 20 large folders of architectural plans and drawings

Contents

The collection includes specifications for jobs, plans and drawings, legal documents, correspondence, and photographs of plans and drawings

Biography

William Hodgen was born in Toowoomba in 1866. After work as a cadet in the Colonial Architect's Office, he resigned in 1891 to travel to London where he obtained employment with William Flockhart. He returned to Queensland and began practice as an architect in Toowoomba in 1897. He undertook work throughout southern and western Queensland. He practised with his sons Neil Nelson Hodgen and Owen Frederick Hodgen from 1935. He died in Toowoomba on 29th July 1943.

Notes

This guide lists the boxed records only.
There is a separate listing for the plans and drawings.

Corones records include:
*There may be other "Corones" plans etc, listed under other names, and Companies

Code: A208
Shop at Charleville for H Corones Esq
W Hodgen 31 Dec 1914
Job No: 210

Code: A328
Painting the Charleville Hotel for Mr H Corones
W Hodgen 5 Mar 1923
Job No: 331

Code: A378
Shops and bedrooms at Charleville for H Corones
W Hodgen 16 Jun 1924
Job No: 380

Code: A380
Motor garage, Quilpie for H Corones
W Hodgen 30 Jan 1925
Job No: 382

Code: A381
Sample rooms, Hotel Corones, Charleville for H Corones
W Hodgen 13 Mar 1925
Job No: 383

Code: A387
Stage Two. Hotel Corones, Charleville for H Corones
W Hodgen 6 Nov 1924
Job No: 389

Code: A422
Joinery of stage 3 Corones Hotel Charleville
W Hodgen 6 Sep 1926
Job No: 424

Code: A424
Ball room, Hotel Corones, Charleville for H Corones
W Hodgen 13 Jan 1926
W Hodgen 13 Jan 1926
Job No: 426

Code: A481
Stage 3 of Hotel Corones, Charleville for H Corones
W Hodgen 22 May 1925
Job No: 484

Code: A534
Stage 4 of Hotel Corones at Charleville for H Corones
W Hodgen 21 Jul 1928
Job No: 537

Code: A975
Bottle room at hotel Corones, Charleville for H Corones
W Hodgen 11 May 1943
Job No: 975

116/H Correspondence
Box 24
11. Brochure concerning Hotel Corones, Charleville.