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Gummer, William Henry
(b Auckland, 7 Dec 1884; d Auckland, 13 Dec 1966). New Zealand architect. After training under W. A. Holman (1864–1949) in Auckland from 1900 to 1907 and then at the Royal Academy School of Architecture, London, from 1909 to 1910, he worked for Sir Edwin Lutyens and in Chicago for Daniel Burnham and Co. Gummer returned to New Zealand in 1913. Although he designed relatively few houses, he was one of the most original New Zealand domestic architects of his generation. His most striking house is Tauroa (1916), Havelock North—a large, axially planned country house that freely combines classical forms with a picturesque quality derived from the Arts and Crafts Movement.
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