Other Buildings

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OTHER AUDSLEY BUILDINGS

The Audsleys constructed the Racquet Club and Courts at 100 Upper Parliament Street, Liverpool, in 1879.

. "Contemporary British Architects," The Building News (7 Mar. 1890):336. The stone dressings and ironwork were derived from Alexander Thomson's Queen's Park United Presbyterian Church (1867-1942), Glasgow, Scotland. . Ronald McFadzean, The Life and Work of Alexander Thomson (London: Routledge & Keagan Paul, 1979), 157, 282.

Two designs for bank facades, also in the style of Alexander Thomson, are preserved at the Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. One obituary of G. A. Audsley mentions that he had designed "several banks in Newark, New Jersey." . Obituary of George Ashdown Audsley, The Diapason (Jul. 1925):1. The locations and identities of these buildings are yet undetermined as is that of a design for what might be an academic building of the same style.

Two additional Liverpool, England, buildings have been attributed to the Audsleys. The Young Men's Christian Association Building (1875-1877), Mount Pleasant, east of Benson Street, was so designated by Quentin Hughes, who described this structure in 1968 as:

Asymmetrical, robust, high Gothic Revival in 13th century style, not a beautiful building, but one that holds its own and makes no apologies. Characteristic of late Victorian attitudes. . Quentin Hughes, Liverpool, City Building Series (London: Studio Vistas, Ltd., 1969),

Ronald McFadzen, the author of a biography of Glasgow architect Alexander Thomson, has raised the possibility of their hand in a three story office building with street level shops at 92 Bold Street, c. 1880. The influence of Thomson's designs in the work of the Audsleys aroused his suspicions in this regard. The upper story consisted of a colonnade with windows set back as a continuous glazed screen. . Ronald McFadzean, The Life and Work of Alexander Thomson (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979), 282. The W. H. & G. H. Dreaper firm, which commissioned the Audsleys to design a piano case, was located at nearby 96 Bold Street in 1878.

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