Lower Queen Street viewed from Quay Street
1912 (Henry Winkelmann) - 2025

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1912 image: Henry Winkelmann | Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 1-W1504

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Auckland's then-new Chief Post Office is at centre-right. It opened in the same year that Winkelmann took this photograph, and is now the Britomart Transport Centre. The building at left is the first Endeans Building, constructed in 1905, which would be largely destroyed by fire in March 1913.