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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Deisgned and owned by architect Walter Graves, this house used to stand on the corner of Ashmount Road. Like most of the huge Victorian piles on Hornsey Lane, it was demolished in the early 20th Century.

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Comment by Hugh on July 6, 2018 at 22:49

Here's another shot of Hornsey Lane showing Wanganui in about 1910 (first house on the right).

Comment by Hugh on July 6, 2018 at 23:03

And this shot, I'm pretty sure, shows the frontage of Huntingdon House on the right. It was at the top of the last turning on the right as you travel towards Crouch End. Looking at the postcard, I thought it looked like the last road since you can see what I think is the top of Crouch End Hill at the far end. Then I read the back of the postcard on which the sender has referred to the scene being just at the top of Beaumont Road. Beaumont Road is now called Beaumont Rise. The road turns into Sunnyside Road, at the top of which stood Huntingdon.

Comment by Hugh on August 26, 2018 at 12:36

Also a picture of the house from the rear:

Comment by Hugh on February 24, 2023 at 9:25

Graves gets a mention in my recent piece about the Christey family, as the architect of the first version of the Crouch End Opera House / Hippodrome. I don't think his version was built and I don't have any sense of whether it had any influence the final design 

Comment by Karl on February 24, 2023 at 9:38

Any clue as to how the house came by its name? (A town in New Zealand, now usually spelt Whanganui)

Comment by Hugh on February 24, 2023 at 10:11

Yes, it's in my comment on the last page:

Born in 1846 or 1847he was articled to William Finch-Hill and Edward Paraire of Oxford Street and attended the South Kensington Art School. He then worked as Draughtsman and Clerk of Works in various practices before, in 1875, leaving to take up a position as Surveyor to the New Zealand Railway.

After three years building railways he established his own practice designing a theatre, a church, a public gymnasium and shops at Wellington and nearby Wanganui before returning to England to practice at 11 Queen Victoria Street in London in 1880.

I assume that a lingering fondness is the connection.

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