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Pender Archive

The Pender Archive consists of 2,562 individual architectural projects and includes many original water colour drawings of private and public buildings across northern NSW. The collection comprises the achievements of three generations of the Pender family as architects in Maitland, spanning 125 years from the 1860s to the 1980s.

The earliest drawing in the Archive dates from 1866, and is of a cottage probably designed by John Wiltshire Pender for a member of the family. 

This diverse collection represents the archive of the longest surviving architectural firm in the English speaking world, providing a unique and illuminating perspective on the socio-economic and cultural development of the local region. 

According to Professor Barry Maitland's The Pender Index: A Guide to the Architectural Work of the Pender Practice of Maitland N.S.W., 1863-1988 (Faculty of Architecture, Building and Design, University of Newcastle 1999), the Pender practice was set up around the year 1863 by John Wiltshire Pender (1833-1917), who emigrated to New South Wales in 1855 with his immediate family from the village of Tobermory at the north end of the Isle of Mull, Scotland. His father, William Pender (1789-1876) was a carpenter/builder, as was his uncle John Pender (1800-1885). He had served his apprenticeship as carpenter and joiner at Inverness, 160km north-east of Mull, with Mr James Ross. After a brief sojourn on the Victorian goldfields he returned to his family and settled in Maitland in 1857. His uncle, John Pender, had emigrated in 1838 and had established a successful building firm in the area, for which John Wiltshire Pender worked as a superintendent and possible manager for a number of years before establishing his own practice.

The earliest building he designed was the Morpeth School of Arts which was opened on 24th September 1863. Throughout his career he designed and built a number of significant public buildings, cottages and homesteads including Presbyterian manse, Tamworth (1883), St Luke's Anglican Church, Scone (1884), Sefton Cottage, West Maitland (1886), McMaster Cottage, Bundella (1885), Cintra for B.W. Levy, West Maitland (1878), and culminating in two White family homesteads, Saumarez (1888) and Belltrees (1905-1906). John Wiltshire Pender married Jane Baker and had twelve children.

The business later passed onto his youngest son, Walter Harold Pender (1885-1943) who had become an architect and continued the practice. He designed and built cottages and houses, a series of motion picture theatres, war memorials, a wireless station and a number of large hotels.

The third generation of the Pender practice was continued by his son, Ian Walter Pender (1923-1988). He had served in the RAAF during the war flying Lancasters with 622 Squadron, before completing his architectural studies at the University of Sydney under Professor Leslie Wilkinson in 1948. Ian married Winsome Mallaby in 1950 and continued the firm in Maitland, with an impressive series of fine houses, buildings such as Cheattle house, Muswellbrook (1957) and works and extensions to complexes including St John's Theological College at Morpeth (1954 - 1974), the C.A. Anglican Village, Booragul (1953 - 1970), and Beresfield Crematorium (1969 - 1988). He was also involved in much restoration and re-use work for heritage buildings. He died in October 1988 and was survived by his widow, Winsome Pender. Their son, Andrew Pender graduated as an architect and currently works in Sydney, continuing the Pender family's architectural heritage into its fourth generation.

The collection arrived in the University of Newcastle in early May 2000 and underwent conservation treatments. Over the ensuing years they were catalogued using Professor Barry Maitland's original listing. Six hundred of the plans were photographed with a digital camera by Mr Bruce Turnbull and uploaded to our library catalogue.

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Plan
Plan of Show Pavilion for C. P. & A. Society, Grafton, NSW, 1884 (No. 2)

Plan of Show Pavilion for C. P. & A. Society, Grafton, NSW, 1884 (No. 2)

Plan of Show Pavilion for C. P. & A. Society, Grafton, NSW, 1884 (No. 1)

Plan of Show Pavilion for C. P. & A. Society, Grafton, NSW, 1884 (No. 1)

Plan of Public School and Teacher's Residence for Elderslie, NSW, 18 August 1877

Plan of Public School and Teacher's Residence for Elderslie, NSW, 18 August 1877

Sketch Plan of Glass House, "Saumarez" for F.J. White Esqre. [n.d.]

Sketch Plan of Glass House, "Saumarez" for F.J. White Esqre. [n.d.]

Plan of Roof Showing Position of Lightning Conductors. Messrs White Bros. Cottage Saumarez. 10 January 1888.

Plan of Roof Showing Position of Lightning Conductors. Messrs White Bros. Cottage Saumarez. 10 January 1888.

Plan of Cottage Residence at Saumarez for Messrs White Bros. 4 February 1887

Plan of Cottage Residence at Saumarez for Messrs White Bros. 4 February 1887

Plan of Residence, Queen St., Lorn for Mr H. Johnston Esqre. 18 June 1918

Plan of Residence, Queen St., Lorn for Mr H. Johnston Esqre. 18 June 1918

Plan of the Scott Memorial Hospital, Scone (5 December 1922)

Plan of the Scott Memorial Hospital, Scone (5 December 1922)

Sketch of extensions to the RSL Memorial Club, Cessnock Road, Abermain, NSW (14 December 1966)

Sketch of extensions to the RSL Memorial Club, Cessnock Road, Abermain, NSW (14 December 1966)

Sketch of extensions to the RSL Memorial Club, Cessnock Road, Abermain, NSW (14 December 1966)

Sketch of extensions to the RSL Memorial Club, Cessnock Road, Abermain, NSW (14 December 1966)

Sketch of extensions to the RSL Memorial Club, Cessnock Road, Abermain, NSW (14 December 1966)

Sketch of extensions to the RSL Memorial Club, Cessnock Road, Abermain, NSW (14 December 1966)

Cottage for Mr E. Kent at Day St., East Maitland residence, 22 January 1951

Cottage for Mr E. Kent at Day St., East Maitland residence, 22 January 1951

Plan of Residence at [] for Mr J. Gippel, 1925

Plan of Residence at [] for Mr J. Gippel, 1925

Plan of Residence at [] for Mr J. Gippel, 1925

Plan of Residence at [] for Mr J. Gippel, 1925

Plan of Residence at Telarah for Mr E. Willis. 14 February 1923

Plan of Residence at Telarah for Mr E. Willis. 14 February 1923

Plan of the Memorial Screen at St. Mary's Church of England, West Maitland, NSW (December 1924)

Plan of the Memorial Screen at St. Mary's Church of England, West Maitland, NSW (December 1924)

Plan of the Memorial Screen at St. Mary's Church of England, West Maitland, NSW (December 1924)

Plan of the Memorial Screen at St. Mary's Church of England, West Maitland, NSW (December 1924)

Plan of the Soldiers' Memorial Hall to be erected at Gundy, NSW (1 March 1923)

Plan of the Soldiers' Memorial Hall to be erected at Gundy, NSW (1 March 1923)

Alterations and Additions to the Rutherford Hotel, West Maitland, NSW, 4 April 1923.

Alterations and Additions to the Rutherford Hotel, West Maitland, NSW, 4 April 1923.

Alterations and Additions to the Rutherford Hotel, West Maitland, NSW, 4 April 1923.

Alterations and Additions to the Rutherford Hotel, West Maitland, NSW, 4 April 1923.

lan of the Memorial School of Arts at Scone, NSW (9th October 1922)

lan of the Memorial School of Arts at Scone, NSW (9th October 1922)

Plan of Soldiers’ Memorial Building to be erected at Cessnock, NSW (31 October 1921)Plan of Soldiers’ Memorial Building to be erected at Cessnock, NSW (31 October 1921)

Plan of Soldiers’ Memorial Building to be erected at Cessnock, NSW (31 October 1921)Plan of Soldiers’ Memorial Building to be erected at Cessnock, NSW (31 October 1921)

Plan of Additions etc to 'Cotswold', Armidale for W. Curtis, Esq., 18 July 1910.

Plan of Additions etc to 'Cotswold', Armidale for W. Curtis, Esq., 18 July 1910.

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Publication
Cottage Residence for James A Kerr Esquire -1904 - JW Pender

Cottage Residence for James A Kerr Esquire -1904 - JW Pender

Index of Projects by the Pender Practice : Part 1 (2005)

Index of Projects by the Pender Practice : Part 1 (2005)

The Pender Archive - Alphabetical Listing by J. Scobie

The Pender Archive - Alphabetical Listing by J. Scobie

Reference Page
Report on the Arrival of the Pender Archive in 2000

Report on the Arrival of the Pender Archive in 2000

M5031-6: Residence "Belltrees" for Messrs M. E. A. and V. White No. 5 (28/9/1906)M5031-6: Residence "Belltrees" for Messrs M. E. A. and V. White No. 5 (28/9/1906)
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