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About C.H.E. Blackmann
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- Blackmann or Carl Heinrich Edmund Blackmann (1835 – c.?1912), a leading Sydney architect and member of the Institute of Architects and Surveyors and the Royal Society, was associated with over 130 buildings in a career of twenty years in Australia.Blackmann had a spectacular fall from grace in 1886 when he sailed to California with a younger woman, abandoning his wife, seven children and new business partner (Sir) John Sulman.
- The ensuing notoriety resulted in the marginalisation of his contribution to architecture; his outstanding work was subsequently ascribed to his much younger partner Varney Parkes (Blackmann & Parkes 1880-1885) or to John Sulman (Blackmann & Sulman 1886).
- Authors have repeated the rumour that he ‘fled the country with a barmaid leaving Sulman liable for his tubulars"’.During his lifetime, Blackmann's contemporaries lauded his skills in mining engineering, drawing, design, project management and architecture.
- Recent research has shown that Blackmann left Sulman, a recent migrant to Sydney, with an exclusive office suite and a flourishing business with rich bank and insurance clients.
- Sulman purchased the other half of the partnership in 1889.
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