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3 unusual facts about Robin Dods


Robin Dods

He built for himself a house at Edgecliff, described by a contemporary as "charming in its quiet Georgian character, well planned, and forming an attractive setting for the antique furniture he had collected for many years."

It was in Naples that he met Charles Rennie Macintosh, who was also travelling to fulfil the terms of the Alexander Thompson Scholarship which he had won the previous year.

Hall & Dods were architects in Queensland for several national enterprises including the AMP Society, the Bank of New South Wales, the New Zealand Insurance Co, JC Hutton & Co, the Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Company, the Engineering Supply Company of Australia as well as several local department stores.



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