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Anderson had sent out from her office in the then Equitable Building copies of the circular letter to suburban mayoresses, about one hundred wives of country mayors and many other well-known women. For all Anderson's efforts, it is not clear to what extent women supported the Women's Federal League nor to what extent it was effective. There is no indication that any branches of the League were formed in response to her circular, though this may in part have been because of the very short time between the establishment of the organisation and the holding of the referendum. Nevertheless, the League seems to have faded away in the aftermath of the referendum, which failed to secure the required number of votes in favour of federation. A year later, in the lead-up to the second federation referendum, two other women's leagues were formed, one in Sydney known as the Ladies' Federal League and one in the
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Federation Romanesque style to Australia. Raht followed the originator of this style, American architect Henry Hobson Richardson. It was one of the first buildings to be constructed with external walls entirely of trachyte, which was more commonly used as a decorative stone in combination with other materials. It is a source of information about overseas construction techniques at the turn of the century, including terracotta floors and marble slab floors supported directly on steelwork. Constructed for the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States of America, the building is also an expression of the expansion of major American companies into the Australian insurance market in the late Victorian period. The building is significant as the site of the business office from which the pioneer Australian feminist and advocate for female suffrage, Maybanke Wolstenholme, ran both her journal,
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which was more commonly used as a decorative stone in combination with other materials. Erected in 1894, the building was an early example in
Australia of the influence of the American Romanesque style developed by Raht's countryman, Henry Hobson Richardson, from the 1870s onward. After studying in Paris, Richardson had evolved his own simplified distillation of the Romanesque style and attracted numerous American disciples. The building is also a tangible expression of the expansion of major American companies into the Australian insurance market in the late Victorian period. Raht also designed offices for the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States of America in
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990:Trades Hall
885:Liner House
734:Sydney Mint
712:Banco Court
663:Hay Street
536:Attribution
363:Description
124:Edward Raht
100: /
88:151°12âē27âģE
76:Coordinates
71:, Australia
1342:Categories
1273:The Domain
1114:and hotels
880:Kyle House
510:13 October
461:References
341:Federation
195:Commercial
168:Designated
85:33°52âē01âģS
55:348 - 352
1243:Hyde Park
1156:Hotel CBD
1151:Hollywood
770:AWA Tower
760:AMA House
555:CC-BY 4.0
523:CC-BY 4.0
397:spandrels
321:Melbourne
265:, in the
261:, in the
121:Architect
1302:Memorial
1298:I â SMS
1171:Skinners
1121:Arthouse
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444:See also
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393:mullions
378:capitals
348:town of
346:Riverina
336:Bathurst
308:trachyte
200:Builders
192:Category
52:Location
973:No. 161
833:No. 354
823:No. 343
818:No. 341
558:licence
526:licence
382:facades
374:columns
310:in the
301:History
1296:Sydney
1176:Sussex
1146:George
1028:No. 73
1023:No. 22
409:atrium
386:marble
370:arcade
316:Bowral
1300:Emden
1294:HMAS
1141:Grace
113:Built
1112:Pubs
512:2018
395:and
289:and
184:Type
160:Type
116:1894
350:Hay
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