What did EC Manfred, architect and surveyor, contribute to Goulburn’s built heritage?
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This was the question posed, and answered, by members of the Goulburn District Historical and Genealogical Society on Saturday, March 17.
Sixty people attended an illustrated talk which addressed the question. The talk covered well known buildings, such as the Town Hall and Hospital, together with two- storey shop/houses in Auburn St, villas and four-room cottages, orphanages and churches. Attention was drawn to the design features which make these old buildings memorable – steep roofs, tall windows and doors, chimney details, placement of front doors and bay windows.
Following the talk, two guided walks were offered: Church Hill and West End. Guides drew attention to specific features of each building and the streetscape setting. Along the way there were comments from the walkers on families who had lived in the houses, memories recalled of playmates and other snippets of days gone by.
On each walk there were EC Manfred-designed buildings which had been demolished such as the original showground buildings to make way for residential blocks adjacent to the hospital; St Saviour’s Rectory on the Church Glebe and a villa in Church St, both because of structural failure.
There are a few architectural drawings in Manfred Collection for which the location in the documentation is vague, although sufficient at the time because so few buildings were in the area.