Masonic Hotel (Auckland, N.Z.)

Date: [Circa 1860s]

From: Marvin, W G (Captain) :Marvin family photographs

By: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909; Crombie, John Nicol, 1827-1878; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Marvin, William, 1834-1915

Reference: PA1-q-320

Description: Album of photographs taken during the 1860s by various photographers. All the images are related to Colonel William Marvin (1834-1915) who came to New Zealand circa 1858 and was possibly attached to the 70th Regiment of Foot during the New Zealand wars. There are many photographs relating to military activity, including military working parties at Fort Britomart; military and naval camps at Maungatawhiri Creek, Queen's Redoubt, Drury, Ngaruawahia and Albert Barracks; a monument to the 43rd Regiment at Gate Pa near Tauranga; Potatau's tomb with a sentry guarding it; and the Auckland cemetery. Many of the images are of Auckland, including `Hale's Boarding House, where I first slept in N.Z.'; `The Masonic Hotel where I was made a mason in 1861'; `My last batchelor home near Constitution Hill green, next door to the Dacres'; `St. Mary's where I was married 4th August 1862'; a long sequence showing Queen Street from different angles in 1866'; and various homes that he knew, including Heaphy's house in St George's Bay, Dillon Bell's House in Parnell, and `Little Sutton' in St. George's Bay. Other images of interest include a mining camp at Coromandel; the tree on which Volkner was hanged, with a seated group of Maori beside a whare; a Maori church that is completely thatched, in the Waikato; and two views of the sailing ship Ida Ziegler [i.e. Zeigler] `In which we returned from N.Z. round Cape Horn, 29th Jany to 1st May 1867'. Photographs in England are all related to Tipner Barracks near Portsmouth, and Malpas Cemetery, Newport Monmouthshire. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with albumen prints. Label attached to cover `Pictures of N.Z. (N. Island) & Tipner with captions by Col. Marvin'. Textured black cover; 30 x 24 cm

Date: 1855 - 1885

From: Various artists :Official Bay; From a point; Freeman's Bay, Auckland. [ca 1845. Five keys to early buildings and features from drawings by Edward Ashworth and other artists].

Reference: A-197-045

Description: A view of Official Bay from St Andrews to the Britomart Barracks, similar to a view by P J Hogan, "Auckland from Offical Bay 1850". From left to right, labelled features include St Andrews, Mt Eden, Sir M O'Rorke, Rev H Lawry, Wynyard Pier, Royal George (Cargen), Eden Crescent, Short St, Government House, Masonic Hotel, St Pauls School, Eden Crescent (again), Judge Fenton, St Pauls, Britomart Barracks. George Maurice O'Rorke was knighted in 1880; therefore the labelling must postdate 1880. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, black and white, on sheet 190 x 332 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in 2002.

Date: 1850

By: Williams, John, -1905?

Reference: A-079-021

Description: View looking down Princes Street towards Emily Place, with St Paul's church at the foot of the street, the harbour beyond. The first building on the left is Woods Royal Hotel, during its occupancy by Major-General Pitt of the 58th Regiment, with a sentry-box outside. The building next-door, with the striped blinds draped over the balcony was the Royal Masonic Hotel and beyond that was the Union Bank of Australia, with flag fluttering in front. There are two other very similar views to this by Cuthbert Clarke (1850 - a pencil and crayon drawing in the National Library of Australia) and by Colonel Wynyard, a wash drawing in a private collection, 1849. G. C. Mundy in his 'Our Antipodes' (London, 1852), p. 74, writes about this street and its occupancy by Major-General Pitt. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and coloured pencil on buff paper, 252 x 365 mm

Date: 1849

By: Wynyard, Robert Henry (Sir), 1802-1864

Reference: B-189-012

Description: View looking down Princes Street towards Emily Place, with St Paul's church at the foot of the street, the harbour beyond. The long low house to the right of the church would have been that of Brigade-Major Joseph Greenwood. To the extreme left, the original Wood's Royal Hotel can be seen, with its verandah partly enclosed with lattice. The two-storey building next door to it is the Royal Masonic Hotel, and beside that, the Union Bank of Australia. Various men, women and children are standing or sitting in the street, and a carriage drawn by two horses, carrying four people, rides up the street According to Una Platts' 'The lively capital: Auckland 1840-1865', the image is given the title 'Princes Street, Auckland, 1849, with Colonel Wynyard's carriage'; this title does not appear on the original and may come from family knowledge Wynyard made two versions of the scene; the other is privately owned. The Library holds a photographic reference to this version Other Titles - Street Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Princes St. 1849 [in ink] See also John Williams' pencil and crayon drawing of the same scene, about 1850, at A-079-021 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on paper, 183 x 222 mm, hinged to gate-fold matt 480 x 403 mm Provenance: Previously from a sketchbook of R H Wynyard's, owned by R Lewin Wynyard, Auckland (see U Platts, 'The lively capital ...', 1971, List of illustrations p.257)