An architect he designed the "Normal School" in the north-east corner of Cranmer Square. The institution, the first of its type in the country, was to be both a primary school and a training college for teachers. In the 20th century the fact that the school was built of stone became its drawback. By then a preference had arisen for wooden school buildings which were economical, impermanent and easy to replace. He was never articled to an architect. He learned his trade in his father's building yard in Herefordshire. He, his fiancée and her family, the Pavitts, arrived in Akaroa in the Monarch in Apr. 1850. Farr designed G.H. Moore's mansion at Glenmark (destroyed by fire), George Gould's Hambleden (still standing on the Bealey Avenue-Springfield Road corner) and St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Cashel Street.
An architect he designed the "Normal School" in the north-east corner of Cranmer Square. The institution, the first of its type in the country, was to be both a primary school and a training college for teachers. In the 20th century the fact that the school was built of stone became its drawback. By then a preference had arisen for wooden school buildings which were economical, impermanent and easy to replace. He was never articled to an architect. He learned his trade in his father's building yard in Herefordshire. He, his fiancée and her family, the Pavitts, arrived in Akaroa in the Monarch in Apr. 1850. Farr designed G.H. Moore's mansion at Glenmark (destroyed by fire), George Gould's Hambleden (still standing on the Bealey Avenue-Springfield Road corner) and St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Cashel Street.
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S.C. FARR Died 14th July 1918, Aged 91.
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