Stanley, Owen, 1811-1850 :First hotel and houses built at Port Nicholson, now Wellington, N.Z. Barret's hotel. [1840] (after original painting by Captain Owen Stanley). [Publication place, publisher, date of publication unknown]

A view from Charlotte Street (lower Molesworth Street) looking out to Wellington Harbour, with the side and back of Barrett's Hotel on the far left and the back of another house, 'the raupo house' in the centre. A flagstaff flying the Union Jack is alongside the near wall of Barrett's Hotel

Copy of a wash drawing 'Barrett's Hotel, Port Nicholson' owned by the Royal Society Tasmania, and held in the collection of the Tasmanian Art Gallery and Museum, Hobart

The 'raupo house' had a roof made of raupo and was said to be the first house built on Thorndon Beach (Thorndon Quay). It stood at the base of Charlotte Street, later Molesworth Street, on the right side as you face the sea, with Barrett's Hotel on the left side.

Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Physical Description: Photolithograph (postcard), 89 x 139 mm glued to sheet 276 x 215 mm