Rudd Residence
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Rudd Residence, 2009
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| Location | 248 Agnes Street, The Range, Rockhampton, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 23°23′37″S 150°29′40″E / 23.3935°S 150.4944°ECoordinates: 23°23′37″S 150°29′40″E / 23.3935°S 150.4944°E |
| Design period | 1919 - 1930s (interwar period) |
| Built | c. 1923 |
| Official name: Rudd Residence, Mitchell Residence | |
| Type | state heritage (built, landscape) |
| Designated | 22 October 1999 |
| Reference no. | 601923 |
| Significant period | 1920s (fabric, historical) |
| Significant components | residential accommodation - main house, garden/grounds, lead light/s, views to, trees/plantings |
 Location of Rudd Residence in Queensland
Location of Rudd Residence in Queensland
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Rudd Residence is a heritage-listed villa at 248 Agnes Street, The Range, Rockhampton, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from c. 1923. It is also known as Mitchell Residence. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 22 October 1999.
The Rudd Residence at 248 Agnes Street, Rockhampton was constructed in about 1923 and is believed to be the design of local architect Beatrice May Hutton. It is a large, high set timber dwelling located on a spacious block originally part of Allotment 47 granted to John Ward and Andrew Bertram in 1862. Frank Rudd, the son of renowned Rockhampton businessman William Henry Rudd, purchased the block, an area of one acre and two perches, in November 1922.
Beatrice May Hutton was born in 1893 and educated at Rockhampton Grammar School. Like many of the women who attempted to enter the male domain of architecture at the time, Beatrice Hutton came from a family with associations in the field. Her father, Falconer West Hutton, was a surveyor and she initially wanted to pursue a career in surveying but had to "accept architecture as the nearest feasible alternative". She became the articled pupil of prominent Rockhampton architect, Edwin Morton Hockings from 1913 until 1916.
In October 1916, Beatrice Hutton became the first female architect to be admitted to the Queensland Institute of Architects. The Sydney architectural journal The Salon announced:
"The Queensland Institute is, we believe, the first Australian Institute of Architecture to admit a lady member...The credentials placed before the Institute Council by the candidate showed that Miss Hutton was an earnest and industrious student, and the application was supported by her principals."
Later in 1916, Hutton moved to Sydney to broaden her experience. From April 1917 she worked for expatriate Queensland architect, Claude William Chambers, becoming a junior partner from 1931-1933. The firm was listed for those years as "Chambers and Hutton" in Sands New South Wales Directory and it may be that Beatrice Hutton was the only woman practising as a principal in Sydney at the time. She returned to Rockhampton in 1934 to care for her elderly parents, effectively ending her architectural career. After her father died, Hutton moved to Brisbane with her mother in 1936 and opened an art studio in the Colonial Mutual Life Building in Queen Street where she exhibited and sold her wood carvings. Judith Mackay wrote in 1984 when Hutton was 90 that "Beatrice Hutton currently lives surrounded by an impressive array of her own handwork in wood carving, pottery and rug-making. Her sustained enthusiasm for using her creative skills is inspirational."
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