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.