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Brisbane. Evesham was built for Evelyn Thomason (nee Horsman), who commissioned Rylance to design Evesham as a block of four flats with the penthouse flat intended to be her personal residence. Completed in June 1937, Evesham's stuccoed walls, Juliette balconies, asymmetrical massing and numerous
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The Bartlett Residence "Fairways" – 390 Swann Road, St Lucia
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Mervyn Hamilton Rylance was born on 20 March 1906 in
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