ABSTRACT
74This house, located in Canberra in the suburb of Forrest, four kilometres south of the core of the city’s central district, was designed for Australian historian Manning Clark, his wife Dymphna and their six children – they were only four when the Clarks moved in, and for reasons relating to their age difference “it was rare for the whole family to live for extended periods together” in this building. 1 The site, two-thirds of an acre, is located on the edge of public parkland bound by Tasmania Circle. The latter, in conjunction with the surrounding outer Arthur Circle and together with other circular nodal points, is a key figure from the urban plan for Canberra that was designed in 1911, and further defined in following years, by American architects Walter Burley and Marion Mahony Griffin.
