Henrietta Barnett formed a board of trustees to build this urban utopia following strict social principles: all classes accommodated, places of education provided, places for the handicapped and elderly, gardens with hedges, not walls, noise limited, shops etc. kept to the boundary and sales of alcohol prohibited. She chose Raymond Unwin to plan the estate and Edwin Lutyens as consulting architect.
On the picture source website the map is interactive, but visit external site for everything you need about the suburb. It is here we learn that "Lutyens' sketch for the landscaping was, as Dame Henrietta recalls, dashed off in a letter from Marseilles when he was en route for Delhi. At the western end of the Avenue is Lutyens' memorial to the Dame herself, a kind of classical wellhead." It is rumoured that Lutyens found Dame Henrietta a difficult client, and that he saw the Delhi commission as an escape from HGS. But perhaps he enjoyed designing her memorial.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Hampstead Garden Suburb
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First house tree
October 2nd 1907. This tree was planted by Mrs Barnett on the occasion of th...
First two houses on HGS
On 2 May 1907 Henrietta Barnett cut the first sod here. The ceremony involved...
Hampstead Garden Suburb Jubilee
This stone was unveiled by Her Royal Highness, the Princess Margaret on 2nd J...
Henrietta Barnett plaque
Prior to the death of her husband in 1913, Dame Henrietta Barnett had been li...
Other Subjects
Vernon Helbing, FRIBA
With the two other architects Sir Herbert Baker and Alexander T Scott, Vernon Helbing built London House, Goodenough College in WC1 in 1972. It is now Grade II listed.
Samuel William Iron
Architect active in 1877. We can find no information about him, which is unusual for architects.
Temple Bar Trust
The successful story of this group's project is told at the Picture Source website.
Decimus Burton
Architect and urban designer. The 10th child of James Burton the property developer. He was a founding fellow, and later, vice-president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and architect ...
Edward Maufe
Architect. Born in Yorkshire as Edward Brantwood Muff into a family which, in 1903, moved to live in Philip Webb's Red House where Maufe lived for 7 years and later acknowledged the influence. 1909...
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Enzo Plazzotta
Sculptor. Born at Mestre, near Venice. Worked in London for more than half his life. Other works here include: 'Young Dancer' at Bow Street/Broad Court. Ornamental Passions has a very information ...
Mary Shelley
Born in London, at the Polygon building in Somers Town. Parents: William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, Eleven days after her birth her mother died. Most famous for writing "Frankenstein". A freq...
Gas Light and Coke Company
Founded by Frederick Albert Winsor (who also gave the world's first demonstration of street lighting by coal gas). Nationalised 1949 and privatised 1986. Demerged in 1997 into Centrica plc and BG p...
Randall Thomas Davidson, Baron Davidson of Lambeth
Archbishop of Canterbury. Born Edinburgh. A pupil at Harrow. Suffered all his adult life from the damage to his lower back caused by a shooting accident. 1877 married Edith daughter of Archibald Ta...
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
Founded as The Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children. Its first premises were at 49 Great Ormond Street a converted 17th cen...
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