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The Messenger Connection
The Messenger Connection
The name Frank Messenger might not be recognised at first glance, but the buildings he designed sure are. These include the Devonport Flats, the Cenotaph and the St Aubyn Chambers, to name just a few.
The Messenger Connection is an exhibition of 19 architectural plans associated with Messenger and opens on Wednesday (5 AUGUST) in the Lane and Wall Galleries, Puke Ariki.
On display until Thursday 27 September, the plans are part of the Apex Architectural Plan Collection. In 2008, thirty-four plans associated with Frank Messenger were deposited at Puke Ariki by Apex Consultants Limited after the company was bought by Duffill Watts Consulting Group (now CPG New Zealand Limited).
Most of the plans were drawn by partners in firms associated with Frank Messenger including the firms of Messenger, Griffiths & Taylor and Messenger, Taylor & Wolfe.
Included in the exhibition are the plans for the Nurses Home at Barrett Street Hospital, the Bonithon Avenue mineral baths and Dr Walker’s home on Brougham Street (now the Nice Hotel).
Messenger worked as an architect from 1893 to 1945 and designed or helped design a staggering 315 buildings and monuments in and around New Plymouth.
Key details
about The Messenger Connection
Dates: 5 August-27
September
Price: Free
Location: Lane and Wall
Galleries, 2nd floor, Puke Ariki
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