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Reed, Joseph
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HistoryJoseph Reed was probably born on 3 December 1822 in Cornwall, England. He was educated under Derwent Coleridge, the son of the Romantic poet Samual Taylor Coleridge, and acquired his professional training in London where he worked under a Mr Bellamy in connection with the building of the Houses of Parliament, and as a clerk and architect to George Henry Boscawen. Reed emigrated to Australia in 1853 and established a successful and enduring architectural practice in Melbourne. He initially worked alone, before partnering with Frederick Barnes as Reed & Barnes in 1862. Just before Barnes’s death in 1883, the practice became Reed, Henderson & Smart, and after Reed’s death in 1890 a succession of later partners maintained a continuity of practice down to the present-day firm of Bates Smart Pty Ltd. It wasn’t until the formation of Smart, Tappin & Peebles in 1906 that Joseph Reed’s name was removed from the firm’s title 16 years after his death.
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Source of DescriptionGoad, Philip, Bates Smart: 150 Years of Australian Architecture (Fishermans Bend, Vic: Thames & Hudson, 2004), pp. 18, 98
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Reed, Joseph (1822–1890), [UMA-AG-000000085]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 22/07/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/506999