Lindsay Gordon Scott ARAIA (1898 – 4 January 1941) was a prominent

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best associated for his design of the

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and numerous surf pavilions in New South Wales, including several on the

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of Sydney.

Early life

Scott was born to John and Isabella Scott in 1898 in the town of Grafton, in the

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region of

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, and moved with his family to Sydney in 1901 at a young age. Scott received his architecture diploma from the School of Architecture at the

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Architectural practice

In 1923, Scott joined the prominent Sydney architectural firm o
Robertson and Marks
as an assistant, and from 1925 was working within another prominent firm
Ross and Rowe
In 1925 he was admitted as a member of the New South Wales Institute of Architects. While at Ross and Rowe, in 1926–1930 Scott was involved in the redesign project for the

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Piazza Department Store. In 1934, Scott left Ross & Rowe and established his own private practice, operating at 350 George Street (to 1936) and 26 O'Connell Street (from 1936) in Sydney. In private practice Scott continue to design all manner of works including residential dwellings and commercial and industrial premises. His design for an Inter-war Old English style residence overlooking

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Beach featured in prominent architectural magazine, ''

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'', in 1937. A resident of the

of Sydney for many years, Scott was intimately involved in

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, being captain of the

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Surf Life Saving Club in 1924–26, as well as an executive, vice-president, and later Honorary Architect of the Surf Life Saving Association. As Honorary Architect, Scott designed several Surf Life Saving clubs and surf pavilions, including at

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(1935),

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Jetty (1935), South Curl Curl (1937), Palm Beach (1937), and Queenscliff (1938). In late 1936 Scott was commissioned by the

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to design a new

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for the small inner city council. Scott's initial design in the Mediterranean style was an ambitious one, including two stories and a 75-foot-high clock tower. This design however was found to be too expensive and grand for a small municipality in a primarily working-class area of Sydney and was later revised to be a scaled down single-storey building without the tower in a similar red brick Mediterranean style. Completed in 1938, the Town Hall was also featured in ''

''. In 1939 Scott designed the Christ Church in

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for the

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. Apart from surf life saving, Scott was active elsewhere in the community as a member of the

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Country Golf Club, president of the Manly Chamber of Commerce, member of the Manly Rotary Club, and at one time Master of the Masonic Lodge, Annandale. On 4 January 1941 at the age of 42, Scott "died suddenly" at his residence at 26 Fairlight Street, Manly. Survived by his wife Audrey and son John, Scott's funeral was held at

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, before his body was cremated at

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. In a final tribute to his long contribution to the surf life saving community, a team comprising the Freshwater, Queenscliff, and South Curl Curl surf life saving crews scattered his ashes off Freshwater beach on 8 June 1941.

List of works (incomplete)

*Masonic Lodge, 19 Marlborough Street,

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(1925). *Residence,

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(1927). * Harbord Literary Institute (Front extension), 31 Lawrence Street, Freshwater (1935). *Residence,

(1935). *Bakery, shop and dwelling, Albert Street, Freshwater (1936). *South Curl Curl Surf Club (1936). *Residence, Rickard Avenue, Mosman (1936). *Dwelling, Haig Street, Maroubra (1936). *Palm Beach Surf Pavilion (now renamed Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Marks DSO, MC Pavilion), 1 Ocean Road, Palm Beach (1937). *Factory premises, Parramatta Road,

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(1937). *Residence, Strathfield (1937). *

, 104 Erskineville Road, Erskineville (1938). *Queenscliff Surf Pavilion, Manly (1938). *Christ Church, 94 Dalgarno Street, Coonabarabran (1939). *Manly Bowling Club pavilion, Ivanhoe Park (1940).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Lindsay Gordon New South Wales architects 20th-century Australian architects Mediterranean Revival architects People from Grafton, New South Wales Australian surf lifesavers Australian Freemasons 1898 births 1941 deaths