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H enderson H ouse
Margaret cuts the cake on her A new meeting room Archbishop Freier, Dr Powell, Ian Morrison
100th birthday
New teaching spaces Leonie Turack (Ryan, 1957), Jaan Enden,
Tony Wood and Jan McGuinness
The Governor’s Address
Blending architecture with nature
in ‘her House’ with an international gathering of family and friends, including
University Chancellor Ms Elizabeth Alexander. Henderson House showed its
versatility in ready conversion to a social space.
As the newest of seven ‘wings’ to build upon the original Janet Lady Clarke Building
(1890), following Manifold (1927), Traill (1930), Joske (1956), Scantlebury (1962),
View from the tennis court the Eden Common Room (1973) and the Fry Rooms in the Main Wing roof top void
(1996), Margaret Henderson House has taken its place in the ‘back corner pocket’ of
the College. Nestled between our heritage-listed buildings and heritage-listed tennis
court, Margaret Henderson House offers something significant from land which
previously housed an ageing bike and maintenance shed, now relocated to the north
east boundary, and much improved.
Designed by College Architect Mr Barry O’Connor and built entirely offsite by
Modscape Constructions, the building incorporates high environmental design
standards with extensive use of large glass windows to open up the vistas to the
courtyard as well as to Ormond and Trinity. Designed with an eye to maximum
flexibility, it offers study and music practice spaces, a ‘board room’ for students and
Sue Morgan, Jaan Enden, staff, and a retractable wall that enables the ground floor to accommodate social
Jan McGuinness, Anne Latreille functions for up to sixty people.
J anet Clarke Hall 5
