Thomas Herbert Bates
Date of birth / Date established
1873
Date of death / Date closed
1954
Person/Corporate type
Individual
Biography
Thomas Bates was born in Australia in 1873. He trained as a draughtsman before leaving for England and USA where he worked as an architect. In 1908, he came to New Zealand, settling first in Auckland and later New Plymouth. He designed many of the prominent commercial buildings in the town and residential buildings ranging from bungalows to distinctive two story homes. In 1954, aged 80 years, Thomas Bates died in a plane crash in Singapore.
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Thomas Herbert Bates
Maker of
Name/Title:
Cottage to be Erected in McLean St. Fitzroy for the New Plymouth Borough Council [plan]
Production date:
1920
Accession number:
ARC2014-026
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Name/Title:
Proposed Warehouse for Goldwater Bros Wine & Spirit Merchants New Plymouth [plan]
Production date:
1924
Accession number:
ARC2014-017
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Name/Title:
Business Premises in Devon St. New Plymouth for the Taranaki Amusements Limited [plans]
Production date:
1937
Accession number:
ARC2014-034
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Name/Title:
New Business Premises New Plymouth for Messers Newton King Limited [plans]
Accession number:
ARC2014-071
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![Ellis Maternity Home / Timata Ora [plan]; 1928; ARC2009-169](https://collection.pukeariki.com/records/images/medium/79017/c90415c605be7dc361d32b3dd44b2b9fd391b071.jpg)
Name/Title:
Ellis Maternity Home / Timata Ora [plan]
Production date:
1928
Accession number:
ARC2009-169
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Name/Title:
New Plymouth Opera House
Production date:
Circa 1924
Accession number:
ARC2011-137
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Name/Title:
Plan for Garage for the Borough Council of New Plymouth
Accession number:
ARC2013-1551
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Name/Title:
Plan of Club House Proposed to be Erected for the Taranaki Club New Plymouth [plans]
Production date:
1921
Accession number:
ARC2013-1557
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Name/Title:
Residence Proposed to be Erected in Vivian Street, New Plymouth for Dr. David Blackley [plans]
Production date:
1929
Accession number:
ARC2013-1569
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Name/Title:
Proposed Office Building, New Plymouth for the New Zealand Insurance Coy. Ltd. [plans]
Production date:
Circa 1920
Accession number:
ARC2013-1572
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Subject of
Name/Title:
Proposed Warehouse for Goldwater Bros Wine & Spirit Merchants New Plymouth [plan]
Production date:
1924
Accession number:
ARC2014-017
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Name/Title:
Business Premises in Devon St. New Plymouth for the Taranaki Amusements Limited [plans]
Production date:
1937
Accession number:
ARC2014-034
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Name/Title:
Hooker Brothers Ltd [plans]
Production date:
1926-1972
Accession number:
ARC2008-131
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Name/Title:
New Plymouth Opera House
Production date:
Circa 1924
Accession number:
ARC2011-137
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Name/Title:
Tingey & Co Ltd
Production date:
1929-1961
Accession number:
ARC2004-1333
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Name/Title:
Bates, Thomas Herbert
Production date:
1988
Accession number:
ARC2001-468
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Name/Title:
Bates, Thomas Herbert
Production date:
1900-1909
Accession number:
ARC2001-469
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![Proposed Office Building, New Plymouth, for the State Fire Insurance Office [plan]; 1922; ARC2014-010](https://collection.pukeariki.com/records/images/medium/80972/c1bc0d86d126e8e52e05cda500cf7a6b2371a902.jpg)
Name/Title:
Proposed Office Building, New Plymouth, for the State Fire Insurance Office [plan]
Production date:
1922
Accession number:
ARC2014-010
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Name/Title:
Proposed Alterations and Additions to the Y.W.C.A. Building, Powderham St., New Plymouth, for the Young Men's & Young Women's Christian Associations [plan]
Production date:
1934
Accession number:
ARC2014-011
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Name/Title:
Building Proposed to be Erected at Corner of Devon & Currie Streets New Plymouth - N.Z - for the Bank of New South Wales [plans]
Production date:
1925
Accession number:
ARC2014-012
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