Wyndham Street, south side, above Albert Street
1860s (unknown photographer) - 2024
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1860s image: Auckland Museum | composite of PH-ALB-299-p27-1 and PH-ALB-94-p25-2
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The buiding at left was the Clanricarde Hotel; it was first mentioned in newspapers of the period in 1849, when Patrick Dignan acquired a licence for it, and notable for being brick-built at a time when so many of the central city's buildings were built with timber.
Below: about 60 years later, in 1916, Henry Winkelmann set up his camera here and made the image below. Click for transition.
1916 image: Henry Winkelmann | Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 1-W1581
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Several of the 1860s buidings are still present in the 1916 photograph. The tall building, on the corner of Wyndham and Federal Streets, was built in 1908 as a warehouse and factory for manufacturing stationers Collins Bros, and Co. Soon after its construction it was decided to move the central city fire tower there (it can be seen in Winkelmann's picture).
New Zealand Herald 10 September 1909, page 4
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In 1925, when the old hotel building housed an electroplating firm, James Richardson took the photograph below; click for transition.
1925 image: James Richardson | Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections
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In 1926, Henry Winkelmann revisited this scene and produced the image below. The old Clanricarde's site was to see the construction of a large new building to house the Sun newspaper, a new (though short-lived) Auckland daily which was published between 1927 and 1930. Click on image for transition.
1926 image: Henry Winkelmann | Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 1-W0779
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New Zealand Herald 24 December 1925, page 12
Sun (Auckland) 23 March 1927, page 13
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