Daniel Garlick
Daniel Garlick was an architect in the early days of South Australia. During his lifetime, his architectural practice names were Garlick & Son and Jackman & Garlick. After his death his name was perpetuated by two rival firms: Garlick & Sibley and then Garlick, Sibley & Wooldridge; and Garlick & Jackman and then Garlick, Jackman & Gooden.
History
Garlick arrived in Adelaide aged 19 with his father Moses Bendle Garlick and siblings Deborah, William, Thomas aboard Katherine Stewart Forbes from London, first landing at Kingscote, Kangaroo Island in October 1837, just a year after the "First Fleet of South Australia".Soon afterwards Moses Garlick, a plasterer by trade, built on the banks of the Torrens Adelaide's first permanent dwelling; unauthorised, as surveying of the city had not been completed. Similar dwellings nearby were those of William Pritchard and Isaac French.
In 1839 he built North Adelaide's first house, "White Court House". In 1841 Moses Garlick founded a timber and building business in Kermode Street, North Adelaide, and Daniel was practising as an architect by 1853. Daniel worked in the firm known as Moses Garlick & Son from 1841 to 1855, after which he worked on his own for a few years.
Around 1850 Moses Garlick passed the timber business to a Mr Turner, and the family moved from North Adelaide to a property in Munno Para East, dubbed "Uley" for their hometown Uley, Gloucestershire, and later became the township Uleybury. Moses donated an acre of land to the Baptist church and built a chapel. The family grew wheat and grapes and made wine.
Garlick, whose health was not robust, took little part in the farming business. He ran his architecture practice from "Uley", later sharing an office with Smith & Cullen in nearby Gawler. His projects included country houses, shops, churches and chapels in the city and the countryside north of Adelaide. In 1857 he opened his own office in Murray Street, Gawler. Later that year he advertised his services as a moneylender, and entered into a short-lived partnership with George Abbott . Over the next fifteen years they changed their focus between Adelaide and Broken Hill several times, depending on the economic climate. In the 1870s Garlick passed much construction work to builders A. G. Chapman.
Some time before 1886 Garlick & Son took on students A. G. Salmon and Herbert Louis Jackman. Jackman was the son of dining room entrepreneur Joseph Jackman and father of architect Herbert Montefiore Jackman.
In 1891 a partnership Jackman & Garlick was established to handle the Broken Hill practice. In June 1892 the two partnerships were combined, then dissolved in 1899 when Garlick retired.
Eric McMichael worked with the practice around 1900.
A few weeks before he died in September 1902, Garlick entered into a new partnership with Henry Evan "Harry" Sibley, which never was put into practice.
Sibley, by arrangement with Mrs Garlick, continued to trade as "Garlick & Sibley" for several years then Garlick, Sibley & Wooldridge to 1910. The name "Garlick & Jackman", then "Garlick, Jackman & Gooden" perpetuated his name to around 1950 when the firm became Jackman, Gooden & Scott.
In 1912 Garlick & Jackman designed a new picture theatre for the Greater Wondergraph Company in Hindley Street, Adelaide city centre, which was later renamed the Civic Theatre in the 1940s, before its demolition and rebuilding.
Selected works
- St. John's Church, Salisbury
- Wesleyan Methodist Church, at Chapel Street, Magill
- Norwood Wesleyan Methodist Church at 239 The Parade, Norwood
- Uniting Church and Hall, 90–92a Jetty Road, Glenelg,, built in 1880
- Wesleyan Church at Aldgate
- St Cyprians Anglican Church, 70 Melbourne Street, North Adelaide
- Methodist Church school and lecture hall in Archer Street, North Adelaide
- Home for Thomas Magarey
- Home for R. Lathlean, College Park
- Newmarket Hotel, 1 North Terrace, Adelaide SA
- Buck's Head Hotel, 24 North Terrace, for W. H. Gray
- G. & R. Wills warehouse, 203–207 North Terrace, Adelaide
- Queens Chambers at 19 Pirie Street, Adelaide
- St Peter’s College at Hackney; building/s not specified
- Prince Alfred College, 23 Dequetteville Terrace, Kent Town; several buildings with W. McMinn
Other interests
Garlick was chairman of the District Council of Munno Para East from 1855 to 1860.
He represented Robe ward in the Adelaide City Council from 1868 to 1870.
He was a regular worshipper at the Christ Church, North Adelaide.
He was a longtime member of the Adelaide Benevolent and Strangers' Friend Society, and a committee member for many years.
He was a generous supporter of Cottage Homes.
The Garlick Prize, for architectural drawing at Prince Alfred College, was named for him.
Family
Moses Bendle Garlick married Rachel Smith- Daniel Garlick married Lucy Poole, née King, on 6 August 1861. They lived on Kermode Street, North Adelaide. He married again on 1877, to the widow Mary Rebecca Abbott on 29 September 1877. She died at Glenelg.
- Deborah Garlick married John Pitcher
- William Garlick married the widow Martha Smith, née Cox, on 25 September 1860
- Thomas Garlick