Municipal Buildings
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Description
Muncipal Theatre and Council Chambers, Hastings Street South, Hastings
New Zealand Historic Places Trust Register Category 1, Number 1096
Built 1915 by Bull Brothers, Napier
Architect – Henry Eli White
Spanish Mission style
Hutchinson’s Furniture on corner of Hastings Street South and Heretaunga Street
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Municipal Buildings – Hutchinson’s Furniture
Street address 319 Heretaunga Street East, Hastings
New Zealand Historic Places Trust Register Category 1, Number 177
Edwardian Commercial style with Modern Renaissance style
Architect – Albert Garnett
Bulit 1917 by Stanley Brothers
The building has eight ground floor shops, an entrance and stairway to the Assembly Hall.
The Public Library was put on the ground floor after the 1931 earthquake until the new library was built in 1959
Hutchinson’s took up the whole ground floor until the building was deemed unsafe in 2015, due to the new Earthquake Resistance Regulations, 2011.
Location
Hastings Street South, HastingsFormat of the original
PhotographsPeople
- Albert Garnett
- Henry Eli White
Accession number
907/1842/41379Supporters and sponsors
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