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The Queen Street and Wellesley Street West facades of the Queen Street store in the Auckland CBD. One of the oldest surviving retail businesses in New Zealand, it was established in 1880 by Ulster-born Marianne Smith as a drapers and millinery shop, [2] [3] and is the oldest-surviving department store in Auckland. [4]
The statistical areas of Queen Street, which encompasses a full block either side of Queen Street north of Wellesley Street, and Queen Street South West, which includes the area west of Queen Street to Vincent Street and Pitt Street south of Wellesley Street, cover 0.40 km 2 (0.15 sq mi) [2] and had an estimated population of 4,910 as of June 2024, [3] with a population density of 12,275 ...
2005 in Queensgate Shopping Centre, Lower Hutt [66] Grafton, Auckland [66] ColourPlus: ... 1880 on Queen Street, Auckland [269] Auckland CBD [269] Smith's Sports Shoes:
In 1887, as New Zealand was entering a depression, the store hosted a spring fashion parade; one of the first in Auckland. [4] In 1901 the company was made public, and became Milne & Choyce Ltd. Henry Choyce was the managing director of the company. [4] [7] The store moved again in 1908, this time to 131-141 Queen Street. [4]
The Dilworth Building is a heritage mixed-use (residential apartments and shops on the ground floor) building at the corner of Customs Street and Queen Street in the Auckland CBD, New Zealand. The building by William Gummer & Reginald Ford [ 1 ] was constructed between 1925 and 1927, and is listed as a Category I Historic building by Heritage ...
The town of Auckland was created in 1840 with the first European colonisation of the area, marked by an official ceremony on the now non-existent Point Britomart. The initial centre of the new town was focused on what is now the corner of Shortland and Queen Street, which was at the shoreline of Commercial Bay.
Around 1930, the shop moved to 179 Queen Street, Auckland, [6] a more prestigious location with two streetfront windows. Julia's niece Ata Yates, who started in the Trilby Yates workroom in 1946, recalled the shop's exotic Oriental décor: "In one window there would be fresh flowers and in the other a mannequin dressed in something striking.
The building is located on Durham Lane, between Queen Street and Albert Street in the Auckland city centre.Since the building is surrounded by high apartment towers, parking garages and hotels and is located in a cul-de-sac, it is not easy to find without local knowledge.