1 EMBASSY THEATRE 5 HANNAH 8 POST & TELEGRAPH structures were fi nished with cement trained there as an architect. He settled Francis Penty and Edward Blake when goods, tobacco, clocks and watches. 24 JAMES SMITH Majoribanks St and PLAYHOUSE BUILDING plaster. in Wellington around 1870 and was they shared the £100 prize for their design Barend Van Staveren founded the firm BLDG Kent Tce Crn of Courtenay Pl & Herd St joined in 1891 by his son William. Their of the Hunter Building. with two brothers, Isaac and Herman. Cnr of Manners and WALK 2 13 PARAMOUNT Cambridge Tce practice was one of the most successful in The fi rm closed in the 1980s. Opposite is Cuba Sts Completed in 1939 EXPLORE Designed by Llewellyn THEATRE Wellington. 18 MEN’S TOILET a former 1920s Police Station. The home of E. Williams and built and designed by 29 Courtenay Pl Cnr of Courtenay Pl and Known as James Wellington’s fi rst in 1924. Known as the Edmund Anscombe. Its 16 ST JAMES THEATRE Taranaki St 21 HOPE GIBBONS Smith’s Corner professional theatre company, Downstage, A neo-classical building Deluxe Theatre until 1945. Noted for its outstanding feature is the Moderne styling 77-81 Courtenay Pl BLDG and built in 1907 for James Smith, was built in 1974. The fi rst performance constructed in 1917 as Now closed but the last WELLINGTON stunning restored interior, the entrance on the southwestern corner. Anscombe 7-11 Dixon St an early settler who had built up a by the company was in a café on the site was born in Sussex and came to New Wellington’s fi rst purpose One of two remaining remaining example of Discover the Heritage and Public Art in the City and booking areas being completed in in 1964. prosperous drapery business. This 2001 for the Australasian Premiere of Zealand as a child. He studied in America, built cinema. It originally seated 1200 Edwardian theatres. an underground public A classically detailed former department store remained in Wellingtonian Peter Jackson’s Lord of the 6 TAJ MAHAL worked in Dunedin, Hawkes Bay and patrons and was the fi rst in New Zealand Originally the site of a toilet in Wellington. Used as the Theatre building built in 1927 the Smith family until 1993. The Art Deco Rings trilogy. Wellington and designed many Art Deco to show ‘talkies’. This is the last remaining United Methodist Free of Convenience during Fringe Festivals. and designed by Joseph façade was designed in 1932 by King and Locally known as the FROM COURTENAY PLACE buildings. The Building, now known as Wellington theatre designed by James Church built in 1879 and subsequently The Kaiuru Marble sculpture (1999), Te McClatchie Dawson for Hopeful Gibbons, Dawson. Inside murals are by Ruffo and Taj Mahal, originally 2 KENT & CAMBRIDGE TCES Chaffer’s Dock, contains 64 apartments Bennie. He was known for his theatres and owned by theatre promoter J. Fuller Moana - The Sea, located nearby is by a Wellington merchant who made his Steve Templer. TO CUBA STREET a public toilet (see over) on the upper level and a range of cafes, houses. Between the Paramount Theatre & Sons who converted it for vaudeville Logan Shipgood. fortune selling garden implements and designed and built and 55 Courtenay Place there is a row of six shows. In 1911 they demolished the seed. Dawson entered into partnership 25 KENNEDY BLDG JAMES SMITH CORNER including Oriental Parade in 1928 by Wellington galleries and restaurants on the ground interesting buildings of different periods. 19 WESLEY METHODIST 3 POST OFFICE City Council’s engineers department. fl oor. building, by then known as His Majesty’s in 1929 with Jack King and King and 33-39 Cuba St CHURCH Cambridge Tce Transformed in 1980 into a restaurant. and built the present theatre which was Dawson designed several Wellington 9 PER CAPITA 14 55 COURTENAY PL designed by the famous Australasian 75 Taranaki St landmark buildings. Designed by James A fi ne former Post Office 7 CENTRAL FIRE (see over) Cnr Tory St theatre designer Henry E. White. It was O’Dea and built in One of several 19th building built in 1930, STATION used for live shows and as a cinema and 22 TE ARO PARK AND MURALS 1905 for Agnes and An elegant neo-classical century timber churches designed by John T. 2-38 Oriental Parade 10 BLAIR AND ALLEN STREETS in 1942 the name was changed to the St (see over) Anastasia daughters bank building erected in designed by Thomas Mair the Government Architect. The upper (see over) James. The building operated as a cinema of successful merchant Martin Kennedy. A Modern building 1922 designed by Swan, Turnbull. It has a striking interior. Other storey sections were added in 2003, until 1987. Following a public campaign 23 OPERA HOUSE Their initials are shown at either end of CUBA STREET when the building was converted to a completed in 1937 to a Lawrence, Swan and Turnbull churches within walking the façade. O’Dea designed a number of EMBASSY 11 COURTENAY PLACE the theatre was acquired by Wellington 109 Manners St design by C.H.Mitchell Hamilton. Note the elegant entranceway to distance are St. John’s and St Peter’s both backpackers. (see over) City Council in 1993 and saved from buildings in Cuba Street. of Mitchell and Mitchell with its tower the building next door. in Willis Street. Wellington’s other demolition. It has a wonderful opulent 4 WESTPAC BLDG housing the clock, a gift to the city from 12 ADELPHI FINANCE remaining Edwardian 26 COLUMBIA HOTEL 15 NATIONAL BANK interior. 20 VAN STAVEREN 10-14 Courtenay Pl the Blundell family. The Fire Station was HOUSE theatre with a fine 36-38 Cuba St built to house nine appliances and had 60-64 Courtenay Pl BLDG decorative interior. The 15 Courtenay Pl 17 120-126 COURTENAY An Art Deco building accommodation for 21 married and 33 36 Taranaki St building was designed by Melbourne The Columbia Hotel, Built in 1898 and PLACE designed by Prouse and single men. The Wellington destructor The Chicago style architect William Pitt and completed designed by J. M. designed by Thomas An attractive Art Deco Wilson and built as a stood in this area in the early part of the Courtenay Chambers was Built in 1904. Penty in 1912. It was previously known as Dawson was built in Turnbull & Sons with building designed shop and offi ce in 1936. 20th century. It was built to destroy ship’s built in 1928 and also and Blake, architects the Grand Opera House. Saved from 1908. Now converted the classical detailing by Swan and Lavelle The building’s fi rst tenants were probably dunnage, material such as matting and of Victoria University’s demolition in 1977. into inner-city apartments. designed by Llewellyn E. Williams. The typical of Turnbull senior’s work. Note Turnbull and Jones whose name appears brushwood used to prevent the wetting of Hunter Building were and built in 1937 for Van Staveren Bros building next door at 11-13 has an unusual the Italianate arched windows. Thomas on the façade. cargoes and often the repository of rodents the designers. The fi rm was formed by Ltd merchants and importers of sporting brick façade. Most Wellington masonry Turnbull was born in Scotland in 1825 and www.feelinggreat.co.nz and diseases.

27 BANK OF NEW designed by Joshua Charlesworth for 33 BARBER’S BLDGS for the Gear Meat Co as a retail butchery. by William Crichton in 1900 to house and Son, was completed in 1901 and 44 NATIONAL BANK OF 47 FORMER PEOPLE’S ZEALAND BLDG C. Smith Ltd, a business established by 123-125 Cuba St The date of 1840 on the façade refers his photographic studio and workshop. comprised four small shops with living NEW ZEALAND BLDG PALACE/RAILTON HOTEL Cnr of Manners and Christopher Smith shortly after his arrival to the date that the business started in There was a hat maker on the ground accommodation above. There have been Cnr of Cuba and 213 Cuba St Built for Barber and Co Cuba Sts from Melbourne in 1875. His company Petone. At the rear of the building along fl oor. Crichton sold the building in the numerous retail businesses in the premises Vivian Sts occupied the building for 45 years. in 1910 and designed Ghuznee Street are the only other stables Depression but it continued to be occupied over the years. Built for the Salvation A Classical styled by William Crichton. Army in 1908 on land remaining in the area. by photographers for many years. In Converted into a building built in 1913 to William Barber had donated by a member, 31 WORKING MEN’S recent years it has housed dealer galleries. 42 L.T. WATKINS BLDG restaurant in 1996, this building was a design by Thomas Turnbull & Sons and operated a dye works on this site from the original People’s Palace replaced a CLUB 36 ALBERMARLE The building once had a parapet, since 176-180 Cuba St erected in 1917 and was designed by Claude an early example of a masonry building the 19th century. Barber played an Salvation Army rescue home on the site 101-117 Cuba St HOTEL removed. Plimmer Jones. The octagonal former with a structural steel frame. important part in local affairs, serving The largest Edwardian built in 1894. It was intended to provide 59 Ghuznee St banking chamber includes an elegant This is actually two as a City Councillor and as a Member of commercial building reasonably priced accommodation in an 39 134 CUBA ST dome above. 28 CUBA STREET buildings designed Parliament. Designed by James in upper Cuba Street alcohol-free environment. It later became (see over) by Thomas Turnbull Bennie and built in A brick building built in was designed as a 45 201 CUBA ST known as The Railton. It is now Trekkers and Son and built for Robert Hannah, 34 HOTEL BRISTOL 1906. The small top 1908 and designed by department store by R. R. MacGregor in Hotel. This elegant little building 29 84–90 CUBA ST the prominent shoe manufacturer and 127-133 Cuba St storey tower was once surmounted by James Bennie. Note the 1904 for William Veitch and James Allan. was completed in 1901 Cnr of Dixon St retailer who set up business here in 1874. a cupola and crown. For many years a Venetian style detailing, Printers L. T. Watkins Ltd. occupied the 48 G.H.B. WILKINSON Originally an extension to a design by McKay The building on the left was built in 1904 famous brothel. especially on the fi rst building for many years from the 1930s. BLDG Designed by Thomas of the original Hotel fl oor. and MacGregor for the with shops and offi ces on the ground Leonard Watkins was a prominent local 241-243 Cuba St Turnbull and built in fl oor and a factory above. The other Bristol which stood on 37 HALLENSTEIN body politician, businessman and sports dentists William Downes 1886, and originally building was completed in 1908 and the corner of Cuba and BROTHERS BLDG 40 THE VIC administrator. and his brother George. They left in the A building designed known as Te Aro comprised shops with a hotel above. The Ghuznee Streets with its main entrance Cnr Cuba and 154-156 Cuba St 1930s and after a period when it was used by William Chatfi eld and

House. This is one of the oldest masonry on the latter. That building was later 43 as apartments it was converted into a Wellington Working Men’s Club purchased Ghuznee Sts ship. settlers early Although interrupted by REID HOUSE completed in 1909 with an buildings in Wellington and probably the building in the 1960s. demolished. The present building was Cnr Cuba and Vivian Sts restaurant in 1960.

balconies. This building attractive façade which, unusually, retains the oldest retail premises in Cuba Street. completed in 1907 and designed by Bendix Hallenstein an ter af named Street Cuba bustling to area

features a distinctive its balustraded parapet.

Now visually unremarkable, its tower was 32 MCKENZIE BLDG Watney Sibun. Originally there were opened the fi rst Atkins and Mitchell 46 PEOPLE’S PALACE

through the Cour tenay Place enter tainment tainment enter Place tenay Cour the through Hallenstein Bros. retail clothing shop in façade with prominent designed this Art Deco

a well known landmark until removed 116 Cuba St shops on the ground fl oor with the hotel 203 Cuba St 49 255 CUBA ST

Dunedin in 1873 and by 1900 there were Art Deco decoration, particularly the building in 1930 for draper in 1928 along with other details when cently restored interior, interior, restored cently fi magni its with above. The hotel’s former stables, now

the building was remodelled. It had Completed in 1917 for the a studio, are located at the rear via an 36 branches throughout the country. This sunburst motif. The building was erected D.S.Patrick. who had a Built for Dr Patrick Mackin These fl ats were designed been the location of a drapery business retail chain McKenzies, alleyway at the side of the building. branch was opened in 1920 and remained in 1935 and designed by James Bennie as a long standing business on this corner. It in 1904 and designed by by King and Dawson Theatre Embassy the from you takes 2 k l Wa

established in the 1840s and operated by a business established on the site until 1973. Note the company’s private hotel. has two bays in Spanish Mission style on James O’Dea. Between and built for the Downes

the public ar t and the heritage buildings. buildings. heritage the and t ar public the James Smith. in Dunedin in 1910 by Sir 35 FORMER GEAR emblem on the fanlight windows. Cuba Street in contrast to the busy Art Deco 1916 and 1928 the family in 1932 in a mixture

John McKenzie, a notable businessman MEAT STORE 41 MCGUIRE BLDG decorations on the other four sides. Salvation Army rented the building as its of Art Deco and Classical

city and discover the ea rly histor y, y, histor rly ea the discover and city 30 FARMERS BLDG and public benefactor. When the business Cnr Cuba and 38 145-149 CUBA ST 168-174 Cuba St National Headquarters. In 1928 it bought styles.

was sold in 1980 there were over 70 stores the property and converted it into an 92-102 Cuba St Ghuznee Sts William Berry, whose This Italianate harbourside the of t hear the through lk Wa nationwide. The building was the fi rst in extension of the People’s Palace name appears on the Renaissance style Next door is the Farmers Wellington built by Fletcher Construction. This building was next door. building which was erected around 1896 frontage, had this building, designed erected in 1914 and building designed by Thomas Turnbull PER CAPITA MURALS ON THE WAY cnr Tory and Cable Streets AROUND THE CORNER: ORIENTAL BAY CUBA STREET A. TE ARO PARK TOILETS C. JAMES SMITH CARPARK & D. LOMBARD CARPARK Wellington artist Cathryn Munro was commissioned to install Oriental Bay was named after an early immigrant ship. In the 1840s The murals were painted by Marz Cummings who died There are numerous murals in these buildings. The murals this very large steel sculpture outside the Museum Hotel. a quarantine station was located here and in the 1880s dead whales Named for the second of the in a road accident before they were fi nished. They were at the Wakefi eld Street entrance and on the ramp to Level 1 The work consists of four gigantic portraits, up to four metres were rendered down on the foreshore. The bay was also the source New Zealand Company ships completed by Chris Finlayson. The designs echo murals of the James Smith carpark are by French artist Yvan Mauger high, constructed from cor-ten steel. Two pieces are shaped of material for harbour reclamation, the rock carried in railway which brought over a survey formerly on the site by William Kerr. who, with colleague Bertrand Thomas, reputedly painted the as portraits in profi le, and two have profi les cut out from a wagons. In the early 20th century a seawall was built and Norfolk party from England in 1839. world’s longest mural at 1,136 meters at Le Mans, taking 2000 square - i.e. two are in positive form and two in negative space pines and Pohutukawa trees were planted. The original beach was The street was originally hours and using 1.5 tonnes of paint. At the rear of this building - evoking, in the artist’s words, “a visual conversation about the made from sand carried from England as ballast in cargo ships. In laid out in 1841 between in Lukes Lane is a mural by Alison Jones inspired by the work complexity of New Zealand’s cultural identity.” B. OPERA HOUSE LANE of New York artist Keith Haring. A memorial mural to Marz 2003 the present artifi cial beach was constructed with sand brought what were then waterfront Bodhi Vincent was commissioned by the St James Theatre Cummings is located at the entrance to the Lombard carpark. from the South Island. sections in Manners Street and Vivian Street, then known as Ingestre Trust in 2001 to paint this mural. He produced drawings Street. It later continued to Jervois Quay on land reclaimed in the evoking the many faces of opera and performance. the rough D. TROMP L’OEIL (FRENCH FOR TRICK THE EYE) a. CHAFFERS MARINA 1880s. The street was rebuilt after a fi re in 1879. and compartmentalised wall surfaces provided a variegated Commissioned by Caz Interiors, artist Mike Ting painted this Wellington’s fi rst Harbourmaster Edward Main framework on which to weave the imagery, bold bright mural in 1990. It was based on the red light district in the area Chaffers sailed the barque Tory from Lands End to Part of the street was converted into a traffi c free mall in 1969, the fragments of a world of performance for pedestrians to stroll and the lady is modelled after an actual prostitute called Lyn. It Wellington in 1839 on the New Zealand Company’s fi rst in New Zealand. The street remains an exciting, diverse retail past in the walk by nature of the Alley. was retouched in 2004 by artist Marty Simpson. expeditionary voyage. As Harbourmaster he prepared area and several dealer art galleries are found on the fl oors above the fi rst comprehensive charts of Port Nicholson, Cook the shops. Strait and Tory Channel. During his surveys many features were named, including Lambton Harbour, Somes Island and Baring The biannual Cuba Street Carnival, a two-day event of music and Head. In 1910 the original Clyde Quay wharf was built. This was upgraded street entertainment takes place in February. and extended in 1963 when the nearby Overseas Passenger Terminal was CABLE ST built. In 1993 the 185 berth deep water Chaffers Marina was opened by Round the World sailors Peter Blake and Robin Knox-Johnston. This was the BUCKET FOUNTAIN fi rst marina in Australasia to use a fully fl oating system of piers and fi ngers. Designed by architect Graham Allardice as part of Wellington City Council’s development of the fi rst b. CLYDE QUAY BOAT HARBOUR 13 pedestrian mall in New Zealand. Much reviled � The boatsheds were built in 1905-6 and during when fi rst installed, it was expected to have a World War II were used by the United States Navy as ST WAKEFIELD ST limited life but drew a storm of protest when the a boat repair depot. This was the location of Te Aro Swimming Baths, established in 1862 and formed Council suggested that it be removed some years later. Originally green VICTORIA TARANAKI ST by enclosing part of the harbour. Ladies swam from with white buckets it was repainted in the present colours shortly after 9am to 2pm, when a red fl ag was fl own, and men installation because of public dissatisfaction. at other times, when a blue fl ag was fl own. The Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club, dating from 1883, moved here in 1919.

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CUBA c. FREYBERG POOL 139 Oriental Parade T Designed by Jason Smith of Wellington architects King & Dawson Limited and built in 1963 it was TORY S named after Lord Freyberg the New Zealand Army NATIONAL WAR MEMORIAL GHUZNEE ST Commander during World War II and a former and tomb of the unknown warrior Governor-General.

ALLEN ST Rising above Mt Cook is the magnifi cent art-deco Carillon d. TAIL OF WHAT tower of the National War Memorial, whose bells of 11 Oriental Parade remembrance ring out across the city each day. Situated This bronze sculpture was generously gifted to in Buckle Street and designed by the architects Gummer Wellington by artist, Colin Webster-Watson, 2005. & Ford, the memorial opened on Anzac Day 1932, and commemorates all New Zealanders who died while serving their country in war. e. CHARLESWORTH HOUSES View the nation’s Roll of Honour within the beautiful Hall of VIVIAN ST 188–200 Oriental Parade CAMBRIDGE TCE Memories, a place for quiet refl ection. Pay homage at the Tomb of the Unknown Around the point is a row of houses, built in 1906 Warrior, New Zealand’s symbol of remembrance for all those who never made the to designs by Joshua Charlesworth, the architect of journey home. Wellington Town Hall. There were originally nine houses in the row but two have been demolished, For more details call 04 385 2496 or www.nationalwarmemorial.govt.nz BLAIR AND ALLEN STREETS KENT AND CAMBRIDGE TERRACES including 202 where Charlesworth lived. All,except 194, have been modifi ed externally. Two intact historic streetscapes, mostly built between 1903 and 1907, and the Originally planned as parallel canals leading to a ship basin, Kent and former location of the City’s fruit and vegetable market. The ground fl oors of Cambridge Terraces were built as roads after the 1855 earthquake raised the You may like to continue your walk around the bay the former market buildings are on two levels, revealing their former use as land and drained an extensive marsh. The ship basin became the Basin to the Rotunda built in 1936, as a beach changing loading bays. Reserve cricket ground. pavillion.

TE ARO PARK COURTENAY PLACE QUEEN VICTORIA STATUE Between 1800-1890 this was the location of Te Aro Pa Development started in this area after the 1855 earthquake raised and At the North end of Kent and Cambridge Terraces which was settled originally, by the Ngati Mutunga tribe from drained the land. The area is rich in Maori history. The marshland and a stands Alfred Drury’s statue of Queen Victoria which Taranaki and, after their departure by Ngati Ruanui, Ngati nearby Waimapihi stream had been a source of shellfi sh and eels, and of flax is the fi rst statue to be owned by Wellington City D Haumia and Ngati Tupaia also from Taranaki. Later it was which was traded with the European settlers who made it into ropes and Council. It was unveiled in 1905 to celebrate the www.feelinggreat.co.nz settled by the Te Ati Awa people. In 1839 Wesleyan missionaries used it for roofi ng. The loss of food source, illness and the 1860 migration Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897 and originally E Bumby, Hobbs and Minarapa Rangihatuaka were welcomed back to their ancestral Taranaki to settle land disputes saw the Maori stood in Post Offi ce Square near the entrance to by the Maori people and they held the fi rst religious service in population dwindle. Early developments were a gas works, a timber mill and Queens Wharf, moving to its present location six Wellington on this site. Formerly Pigeon Park, in 1988 Maori a hotel. Reclamation did not start in this area until the 1880s. Fill came from years later as it had become a traffi c hazard. Nearby artist Shona Rapira Davies was commissioned by Wellington City a quarry in Oriental Bay by a railway built for that purpose in 1882. For much is an Edwardian cab drivers stand. Council to redesign the park. She handmade 30,000 tiles for of their length the rails ran on trestles across the harbour. In recent years the the project. Kura Te Waru-Rewiri carried out the artwork on the area has become the city’s entertainment centre. prow. The park was completed 1992. PDWCC- 67435