Daniel West Born UK 1828 - Died Timaru 1910. Started as a miner, then carpenter, then architect to the South Canterbury Education Board. Partnered with Robert Barber c1881 and succeeded Maurice Duval as architects to the South Canterbury Education Board in mid-1883. Designed the 1902 Custom House.
William Armson Born London 1832 - Died Christchurch 1883 (50). Was an architect, surveyor, and engineer. Co-founder of the Canterbury Association of Architects. Left his mark in Timaru with the Gothic Revival design of St Mary’s Anglican Church which was under construction when he died.
Frances J Wilson Born South Africa 1836 - Died Gisborne 1911. Moved to Timaru in 1855, worked as a carpenter and built the first wooden customs house in 1863. Was said to have practically rebuilt Timaru after the big fire 1868 as a contractor and architect over 30 year career. He had licenses for hotels and was a councillor 1869-1877. He moved to Melbourne in 1887, and then Wellington in 1898 to form the practice Wilson and Charlesworth.
Maurice De H Duval Born Belgium 1843 - Died in Naples in 1920. Lived in Timaru 1877- 1895. Designed 17-room 1893 Elloughton Grange, for William Grant who made his money in frozen meat boom. He said he moved to Europe because all the banks, financial and commercial companies were built and there wasn’t enough work to go around the five architects in town.
James S Turnbull Born in Timaru 1864 - Died Timaru 1947 (82). Studied in Melbourne, returned to Timaru in the 1890s, and formed a partnership with Percy Rule in 1919. He had a 40-year career in Timaru. Son of Richard Turnbull, a pioneer businessman and politician, and brother of David Clarkson Turnbull. Designed the Aigantighe for sheep farmers Alexander and Helen Grant, who gifted their home for a public art gallery. Also designed the 1925 Oxford Building for his brother, property developer, grain, seed, wool and shipping entrepreneur, David Clarkson Turnbull.
Thomas C Mullions Born Hamilton 1878- Died 1957 (79) Auckland. Mullions moved to Timaru in 1904, and used reinforced concrete to create larger, durable buildings with expansive windows and decorative facades. He moved to Auckland and designed many notable buildings with partner Sholto Smith. He designed Hay's Building for William Hay sheep and cattle breeder.
Thomas Y Lusk Born 1882 - Died Dunedin 1946 (63). Was a draughtsman and architect and partnered with building surveyor Bart Moriarty. Lusk moved to Dunedin joined Mandeno and Frazer. His daughter was the celebrated artist Doris Lusk.
Herbert W Hall Born Christchurch 1880 - Died Temuka 1940 (57). Moved to Timaru 1908. Partnered with civil engineer Frederick Marchant. Won Gold Medal, for his St David’s Memorial Church at Cave and won gold for his 1928 neo-Georgian Tongariro Chateau for the Mount Cook Tourist Co. His son Humphrey Hall (1912-88) was a prisoner of war, and leading modern architect and as Hall and MacKenzie designed the 1958 Mount Cook Hermitage Hotel.