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to join the League, to form their own branches of the organisation in each centre of their district and to form small groups of canvassers in each electorate. She intended that the canvassers would visit outlying areas as part of a campaign to urge all men to secure their voter's right and record a vote on the day of the referendum. By early May, Maybanke
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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Passage (later known as Angel Place) to the south and through an arched right of way to the north. In 1890 a major American insurance company, The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States of America, purchased the block containing numbers 348, 350 and 352, and the existing buildings were demolished. The Equitable Life Assurance Society sent out from America their distinguished New York architect, Edward Raht (born in Austria). Raht was noted for his commissions to design prestige buildings for insurance companies and banks. Raht designed the office building around an innovative steel frame, faced with heavy, load-bearing
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65:Coordinates
60:, Australia
1331:Categories
1262:The Domain
1103:and hotels
869:Kyle House
499:13 October
450:References
330:Federation
184:Commercial
157:Designated
74:33°52âē01âģS
44:348 - 352
1232:Hyde Park
1145:Hotel CBD
1140:Hollywood
759:AWA Tower
749:AMA House
544:CC-BY 4.0
512:CC-BY 4.0
386:spandrels
310:Melbourne
254:, in the
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1287:I â SMS
1160:Skinners
1110:Arthouse
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382:mullions
367:capitals
337:town of
335:Riverina
325:Bathurst
297:trachyte
189:Builders
181:Category
41:Location
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807:No. 341
547:licence
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371:facades
363:columns
299:in the
290:History
1285:Sydney
1165:Sussex
1135:George
1017:No. 73
1012:No. 22
398:atrium
375:marble
359:arcade
305:Bowral
1289:Emden
1283:HMAS
1130:Grace
102:Built
1101:Pubs
501:2018
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278:and
173:Type
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