Elephant and Rhino Pavilion

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  • The Elephant and Rhino Pavilion was built as a successor to Anthony Salvin Junior's Elephant and Rhinoceros House of 1868-69. Plans for a new building had been prepared by Tecton in 1939, but the outbreak of war prevented their implementation. The site
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  • The Buildings of London Zoo

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Elephant and Rhino Pavilion

11 Archival description results for Elephant and Rhino Pavilion

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Correspondence with architects on the proposed Elephant House, London Zoo
ARC/7/1 · File
Part of Architecture and buildings

Includes: memos from the Layout Committee; letters from Lubetkin to Huxley; costings; Contract with Tecton; copy of 'The Architect and Building News', June 1944; handwritten notes; specifications. Includes correspondence with Burnet, Tait and Lorne; and… read more
Reed, Stanley
SEC/10/1/16 · File · 1936
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Correspondence between Julian Sorell Huxley and Stanley Reed regarding The Maharajah of Bhavnagar, plans for a new Elephant House at the London Zoological Gardens and a a request for a financial contribution from The Maharajah
Rice and Son
SEC/10/1/17 · Item · 1939
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letter from the building contractors Rice and Son, to Julian Sorell Huxley regarding the construction of the new Elephant House
Ridley, Jasper
SEC/10/1/18 · Item · 1939
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letter from Julian Sorell Huxley to Jasper Ridley regarding the plans for the new Elephant House and an approach to Lord Howard de Walden regarding a donation towards the construction
Smith, David Seth-
SEC/10/1/22 · File · 1937
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letters from David Seth-Smith to Julian Sorell Huxley regarding plans for the proposed new Elephant House and meetings of the Elephant House Committee