Newspaper buildings - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: 1948

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-036-017/019

Description: Includes three alternative elevations, site plan, and sketch plans of ground and first floors. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying up to around 500 x 750 mm.

Date: 1936

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-1869/1873

Description: Includes floor plans, detail of ceiling beams, sections, details of machine pit. Plan at Plans-91-1869 notes that the building is erected on reclaimed land and the foundations of the building also beds for machines are carried on wooden piles driven to the original bed. Quantity: 5 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on dressed linen and tracing paper, sizes vary around 480 x 630 mm.

Date: 1973 - 1907 - 1928

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: G-822-4

Description: Shows the early Dominion building by Plimmer's Steps, built 1907?, vacated by Dominion staff in 1928. Staff, including printers in traditional aprons, stand in the foreground Painted by the cartoonist of the Dominion, from a line drawing held by the newspaper Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Coloured ink and watercolour on cardboard 1210 x 1510 mm

Date: 1937 - 1940

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Seaton, Sladden & Pavitt (Firm); Mitchell & Mitchell (Firm); Campbell, R A, active 1938; Waygood-Otis Ltd

Reference: Plans-2002-058-083-036/059

Description: Includes site plans by Seaton Sladden & Pavitt; Proposed runway for paper store; Lift plans by Waygood-Otis; plans for a new bulk store in Willis Street by architects Mitchell & Mitchell 1938, with detail of benzine and oil pits, and plans of incinerator on the roof; runway for the first floor, by R A Campbell structural engineer of Christchurch. Folder number assigned by the Library. Quantity: 24 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings and diazo prints, sizes varying up to 650 x 870 mm.

Date: 1924

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-1821/1826

Description: Includes ground floor plan, first floor plan, section AA, section BB, site plan showing position of Luke's Lane and right of way. Two diazo plans are dated 1924. Quantity: 7 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on dressed linen, and diazo plans, sizes varying around 520 x 700 mm.

Date: [ca 1928]

By: Waluszewski, Michael, active 2003

Reference: PAColl-D-1059

Description: Photograph of the Dominion Building, Mercer Street, Wellington, taken ca 1928 by an unidentified photographer. The premises of R Jamieson & Co Ltd can be seen on the left. Cars and a truck are packed at the kerb. The photograph was retrieved from an old picture frame which was to be thrown away. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 38.9 x 31.6 cm, on mount 45.8 x 38 cm

Date: 1949

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-036-020/028

Description: Includes basement and floor plans, elevations to High Street including details of front facade, sections, details of meter room and toilets on ground floor, main stairs, glazed screens between offices. Quantity: 9 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on waxed linen paper, sizes varying up to around 565 x 780 mm.

Date: 1931

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-1857/1868

Description: Includes ground floor plans and first floor plans, detail of machine pit and foundation, and heating plan. Quantity: 12 plan(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on diazo prints, and ink drawings on dressed linen, sizes varying around 500 x 650 mm.

Date: ca 1870s

Reference: 1/2-002908-G

Description: A view looking along Church Street at its intersection with Queen Street. On the left is an advertising billboard which has an old poster which reads "Our Boys". Next to it is the Wairarapa Star newspaper building. On the other side of Queen Street from that is a shop called W Perry. On the right is the Post Office and on the other side of Queen Street from it is a church. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass copy negative

Date: 1966 - 1967

By: Haughton & Mair (Firm); Bulleyment Fortune Architects (Firm)

Reference: Plans-97-011-154/164

Description: Shows plans, elevations and sections. The Dominion newspaper occupied this building as did the Government Tourist Bureau, the Child Welfare Department, the Department of Education, the Waterfront Industry Commission, Charles Haines Ltd., and Microfilm Services Ltd. at this time. Quantity: 11 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo and ink, sizes vary.

Date: 1959 - 1960

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-036-038/042

Description: Includes ground and first floor plans, details of fittings to main office, details of teleprinters' desk and writing table, details of office desks and reading stand, first floor lease plan (1960). Quantity: 5 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying up to around 600 x 760 mm.

Date: 1935 and ca 1950s

Reference: PAColl-4490

Description: A large crowd outside the Evening Post building on Willis Street to see the election results get posted up for the 1935 parliamentary elections. Various shops are visible on both sides of the street and the Hotel St George in the background. Photograph taken by the Evening Post. Four photographs of crowds at Trentham race course ca 1950s, one with the grandstand in the background and another of the area in front of the totalisator board. Busy scene on Willis Street, circa 1966, crowded with traffic. Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1935 - 1936

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-1847/1854

Description: Includes ground floor and first floor plans, site plan, cross sections, elevations, electric lighting and drainage plan. Other Titles - Edwards Building Quantity: 8 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil drawings on tracing paper, and diazo plans, sizes varying

Date: 1933

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-1874

Description: Includes floor plan, elevations and sections, detail of steelwork connections. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on diazo print, 325 x 575 mm.

Date: 1926

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-1815/1820

Description: Includes site plan and preliminary excavation sections. Quantity: 6 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on dressed linen, and diazo prints, sizes varying up to 520 x 720 mm.

Date: ca 1928

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-2076-1/2-G

Date: 1965 - 1970

By: Haughton, Son & Mair (Firm); V P Haughton & Son (Firm); Bulleyment Fortune Architects (Firm)

Reference: Plans-97-011-258/271

Description: Includes floor plans, elevations, and perspective drawings. Quantity: 14 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil on tissue, sizes varying.

Date: 1971 - 1972

By: National Library of New Zealand

Reference: Plans-85-0356/0411

Description: Shows 44 The Terrace, the Free Lance Building, as occupied by the National Library and the Alexander Turnbull Library between 1972 and 1986 Quantity: 54 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink on tracing paper and blueprints 420 x 593 mm to 590 x 995 mm

Date: 1947 - 1953 - 1954

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-036-013/016

Description: Includes plans for new counter and screen to editors' entrance hall first floor of Evening Post no 2 building (August 1947); Gangway between Willis Street and publishing buildings {April 1953); new mezzanine floor to Evening Post building Willis Street for Messrs Blundell Brothers Ltd (June 1954); and, Staff cafeteria Willis Street (April 19..?) Quantity: 4 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying up to around 560 x 750 mm.

Date: 1956 - 1958

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-036-029/037

Description: Includes two perpective drawings of the street facade; floor plans, sections and elevations; piling and foundation plan; detail of "Wallspan" to street facade; staircase plans; detail of lettering on facade. Quantity: 9 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying up to around 600 x 760 mm.