Hoggard, Prouse and Gummer

New Zealand Guardian Trust Building

Hoggard, Prouse and Gummer was an architectural firm that operated between 1913 and 1921 in Wellington, New Zealand. The partners were John Hoggard, William Prouse and William Henry Gummer.

John F ('Jack') Hoggard trained as an architect under his uncle William Chatfield and later under Joshua Charlesworth. He visited the United States and on his return to New Zealand applied some of the new ideas he had encountered, for example suspended verandahs on shop fronts.[1][2] Hoggard formed a partnership with William J Prouse in 1907,[3] and in 1913 William Henry Gummer became the third partner in the firm.[4] Hoggard left the partnership in 1921,[5] and Gummer left the firm (by now called Prouse and Gummer) in 1923.[4]

Notable buildings designed by the company include the New Zealand Insurance Building (1914), later known as the Guardian Trust Building,[6] in Auckland on Queen Street, the Grand Theatre in Manners Street, Wellington (1914),[7] the Winter Garden at the Domain in Auckland (1916),[8] the YWCA building in Auckland (1916)[9][10] and the State Fire Insurance Building (1919),[11] Wellington.[12][13]

  1. ^ "Obituary: Mr John F Hoggard". The Dominion. 21 May 1936 – via Papers Past.
  2. ^ "Mr John Hoggard". Evening Post. 19 May 1936 – via Papers Past.
  3. ^ "[Advertisement]". Evening Post. 19 October 1907. p. 6 – via Papers Past.
  4. ^ a b "Obituary: MR W H Gummer". The Press. 15 December 1966 – via Papers Past.
  5. ^ "Notice of dissolution of partnership [advertisement]". Evening Post. 20 June 1921 – via Papers Past.
  6. ^ "New Zealand Guardian Trust Building". New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero. Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  7. ^ "Grand Picture Theatre". Evening Post. 29 April 1914 – via Papers Past.
  8. ^ "Domain Winter Garden". New Zealand Herald. 25 August 1916 – via Papers Past.
  9. ^ Timespanner (3 July 2013). "Timespanner: YWCA building, Queen Street". Timespanner. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
  10. ^ "YWCA work". New Zealand Herald. 18 October 1916 – via Papers Past.
  11. ^ "State Insurance Office Building (Former)". New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero. Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  12. ^ Lochhead, Ian J. "William Henry Gummer". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  13. ^ Commerce Reports. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce. 1 January 1920.