C.H.E. Blackmann

C.H.E. Blackmann (1835 – c.1912) (Carl Heinrich Edmund Blackmann), 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 20 years in Australia. He came to Australia from Germany at the age of 21, joined the Gold Rush and was naturalized in Victoria in 1861. He returned to Berlin for two years to complete his architectural training and brought his new wife Bertha Wilhelmina Mueller back to Victoria in 1866.