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Elephant House
Elephant House
ARC/7 · Reeks · 1937-1971
Part of Architecture and buildings

The existing 1868 Elephant House at London Zoo was demolished and the foundations laid for a new Elephant House; however work stopped in 1939 because of the outbreak of World War II and the Tecton designed Elephant House was never built. A new building designed by Casson Conder and partners was completed in 1965.
Correspondence with architects on the proposed Elephant House, London Zoo
ARC/7/1 · Bestanddeel
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 with Tecton. Also mentions other abandoned schemes by Tecton for Gibbon House, Children's Zoo, South Gate. Includes correspondence between Huxley and the Maharajah of Bhavnagar and J Ellerman about funding; with Sir Harry Boyd of the Home Office concerning Royal patronage. Correspondence with Zoo Directors in Chicago, Dresden, Stellingen about their elephant houses.
Burnet, Tait and Lorne
SEC/10/1/1 · Bestanddeel · 1936-1937
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Correspondence between Burnet, Tait and Lorne and Julian Sorell Huxley regarding proposed new elephant and rhinoceros houses and paddocks at the Zoological Society of London, and the proposed Tusker Elephant House at Whipsnade Zoo. Also minutes of the Whipsnade Committee 9th December 1936, and an extract from a memo on accommodation for catering staff at Whipsnade (known then as the House of Pleasant Bread)
Clark, Kenneth
SEC/10/1/2 · Bestanddeel · 1937
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Letters from Kenneth Clark of the National Gallery, to Julian Sorell Huxley regarding John Driberg and Lubetkin's plans for the Elephant House at the the Zoological Society of London
Ridley, Jasper
SEC/10/1/18 · Stuk · 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
Tecton
SEC/10/1/24 · Bestanddeel · 1937-1939
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Correspondence between Julian Sorell Huxley and Tecton Group regarding the construction of the new Elephant House
Veale and Saunders
SEC/10/1/29 · Bestanddeel · 1939
Part of ZSL Secretaries

Correspondence between Veale & Saunders and the Treasurer of the Zoological Society of London regarding the construction of the new Elephant and Rhinoceros House at London Zoo
Openings of enclosure and buildings
EVE/6 · Bestanddeel · 1960-1970s
Part of Events and Exhibitions

Records relating to the opening of enclosures and buildings including the Michael Sobell Pavilion, the Snowdon Aviary, the Elephant and Rhino Pavilion, and the Nuffield Institute

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