Empire Hotel (Wellington, N.Z.)

Date: 1841-ca1930

From: Zoe Martin-Carter: Photographs of Wellington and the Centennial Exhibition

By: Shore Bennett, Beverley Doris, 1928-; Martin-Carter, Zoe, 1870-1947

Reference: PA1-f-171

Description: views of Wellington and many of its principal buildings from settlement in 1840 to about the mid 1940s Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1904 - 1936 - 1946

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

By: Atkins & Mitchell (Firm); Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-013-048/071

Description: Includes 1903 plans for the hotel by an unknown architect for Mr J Mandel: floor plans from basement up to third floor. Also includes 1936 floor plans by Atkins & Mitchell. Also includes 1946 plans for renovations and earthquake strengthening by Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners, for New Zealand Breweries. These are floor plans and elevations of the facades. One of 1904 plans is signed to say a permit may be issued; dated 19.2.04. Quantity: 24 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints and ink drawings, on sheets, sizes varying up to 600 x 980 mm.

Date: 1884

From: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926 :New Zealand sketches in black and white. 1884.

Reference: E-310-q-014

Description: Three sketches of a view of Queen's Wharf, Wellington, Point Halswell and Wellington Harbour; a seated Maori woman, smoking a pipe and with a baby in a sling on her back; a huia on a branch. Exhibited in 'Huia: Sacred Bird, Lost Treasure' exhibition at the National Library Gallery, 24 July to 7 November 1999. Curated by Jill Trevelyan. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and ink & wash in bound album, page size 173 x 252 mm

Date: 1882 or 1883

By: Burrett, Robert, 1830-1886

Reference: A-018-023

Description: View of the hotel from the street with verandahs on ground and first floor Extended Title - Published in: Bishop, W K. Guide to Wellington and district. 1882 (or 2nd ed., 1883) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, b&w ; 90 x 140 mm

Date: 1900 - 1919

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to the sale and purchase of real estate, domestic dwellings, commercial buildings, houses, subdivisions and sections]

Reference: Eph-B-REAL-ESTATE-1900/1919

Description: Includes: 1902: Chapman & Tripp. Particulars and conditions of sale of the Kelburne Estate to be sold at auction by Messrs Harcourt & Co., at the Chamber of Commerce, Wellington on Wednesday the 26th day of February, 1902. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, 49059 Prospectus of Miramar Ltd. Dated 28 November 1902; filed with the Registrar, 2 December 1902. 1904: Empire, Bellevue and Mansions Consolidation Ltd. Prospectus. Dated 23 June 1904; filed with the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies 23 June 1904. (Re Empire Hotel Willis Street, Bellevue Gardens & Hotel Lower Hutt, and The Mansions in Ghuznee Street) W H Morrah & Company. Wellington property list; business, city, suburban and country properties. Wellington, New Zealand. [ca 1904] 1906: Chase-Morris & Co.'s sale of Miramar North, at Chamber of Commerce, 28 November [1906]. (Typescript page re proposal to build Miramar Wonderland) Thomson & Brown. Double your money surely and quickly. An investment in Wellington suburban real estate ... in the fashionable suburb of Karori [1906] 1907: Mornington, being the subdivision of part of the well-known Elijah Wilton estate, adjoining the city of Wellington. Pamphlet (2 copies) 1913: Mokau Cola and Estates Company Ltd. Sale of Mokau Estate; subdivision of the famous Mokau-Mohakatino Block on the Mokau River, Taranaki. 7 May 1913. Pamphlet Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1888

From: Hoare, E A, fl 1887-1888 :Drawings, watercolour sketches, photographs and notes of E A Hoare, Artiste, on board 'S S Tongariro'. December 1887 to March 1888

Reference: E-955-f-032

Description: A sunset view of Wellington Harbour, with the eastern hills in the distance, Point Halswell in the middle distance and a small sailboat on the water. The harbour reflects the colour of the sky Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - E A H [artist's initials in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 155 x 250 mm, on sketchbook page 255 x 370 mm

Date: 1985-1994

From: Shephard, Wayne, active 1990-2001: Papers relating to Wellington buildings

Reference: 2007-116-150

Description: File comprises Archive of Wellington Architecture research forms. Some forms include newspaper cuttings. Selected names indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1858

Reference: PAColl-5177

Description: Retouched photograph of Willis Street looking south with the Empire Hotel on the left and Millers Commercial Hotel on the right. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1867

From: [New Zealand cricket programmes and ephemera of octavo size]

By: Sommerville, R I, active 1995

Reference: Eph-A-CRICKET-1867-01

Description: Lists bill of fare and list of wines. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Mr Sommerville / Umpire Nelson Eleven Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress menu, 180 x 110 mm (folded). Provenance: Donated by Dr R I Sommerville of South Australia in 1995.

Date: [1970-1976]

From: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979 : Papers

Reference: 77-067-6/06

Description: Typescript copy of Lawlor's `Old Wellington hotels' and corrected script, `The Wets and the drys', reminiscences of the liquor laws and how they operated, which was taped 26 Mar 1973 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1901 - 1912 - 1962 - 1904 - 1913 - 1967

By: Wellington College (Wellington, N.Z.). Old Boys' Association; Gibson, R J, active 1998

Reference: Eph-A-SCHOOLS-WCOB

Description: Eighth annual dinner. Mandel's Empire Hotel, 28 November 1901. Menu / toast list /programme Ninth annual dinner. Hotel Cecil, 27 September 1902. Menu / toast list / programme Tenth annual dinner. Hotel Cecil, Wellington NZ, 26 September 1903. Menu / toast list / programme Eleventh annual dinner. Hotel Cecil, 24 September 1904. Menu / toast list / programme Nineteenth annual dinner. Hotel Winsor, Wellington, 18 June 1912. Menu and toast list Twentieth annual dinner. Godber's, Lambton Quay, 18 June 1913. Menu and toast list; and ticket Annual dinner st Student Union Dining Room, Victoria University of Wellington. 6 October 1962. Programme / menu; and ticket for B P Barstow; years at college 1941-1944 Launching dinner in connection with Old Boys Centennial Gift Fund. Student Union Building University of Wellington, 15 October 1966. Invitation Wellington College Old Boys' Centennial Appeal. Printed by Litho Productions Ltd Wellington [1967?] (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Pamphlets and fliers, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1984-1998

From: Shephard, Wayne, active 1990-2001: Papers relating to Wellington buildings

Reference: 2007-116-173

Description: File comprises Archive of Wellington Architecture research forms. Some forms include newspaper cuttings. Selected names indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 26 Apr 1984

From: NZOHA Customs Department Oral History Project Part II

By: Tyrrell, Maurice Stephen, 1907-2001

Reference: OHInt-0101/19

Description: Maurice Stephen Tyrrell born North East Valley, Dunedin 1907. Outlines family background - maternal grandparents, James and Harriet Martha Tattersfield (nee Tall) well known in Central Otago. Mentions that Tattersfield and Tyrell families founded the St Martin's Anglican Church, North East Valley, Dunedin in the 1860s. Describes a typical Sunday, being a member of the Guild of Servers and in the choir. Mentions a relative, Daphne Eunice Meredith (nee Tattersfield), stage name, Eunice Meredith. Recalls joining Customs in Dunedin as a cadet in 1923. Describes the `Dry book' for customs entries and the `call over' - balancing the books. Describes move to Wellington and describes social life, referring to the Empire Cafe in Willis Street, dancing classes at May Marris (?) Studio, Tory Street, dances at Masonic Lodge and tennis at Aro Street courts. Mentions, Ken J Royal (pen name of J J Kennedy), Bill Bardsley?, Gerry McKellar, Bruce Anderson, Percy Durant, Chris L'Estrange, Steve Gale, H R Spence, Tom Mitchell and Frederick Abercrombie. Discusses duties as Warehouse keeper, Auckland (1939) based in the Long Room and being manpowered into Sales Tax (1941). Describes Henderson Vineyards and winemakers. Recalls humorous material written by Dunedin staff (Steve Gale and Tom Williamson) in the 1930s. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000532A-000531 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0105. One b&w photograph of Maurice Steven Tyrrell Search dates: 1907 - 1984

Date: 1927

From: Swan family : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-0109-046

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: December 1972

From: Fearnley, Charles James, 1915-1988 :Photographs of New Zealand buildings

Reference: 1/4-075295-F

Date: December 1972

From: Fearnley, Charles James, 1915-1988 :Photographs of New Zealand buildings

Reference: 1/4-075294-F

Date: December 1972

From: Fearnley, Charles James, 1915-1988 :Photographs of New Zealand buildings

Reference: 1/4-075289-F

Date: December 1972

From: Fearnley, Charles James, 1915-1988 :Photographs of New Zealand buildings

Reference: 1/4-075293-F

Date: December 1972

From: Fearnley, Charles James, 1915-1988 :Photographs of New Zealand buildings

Reference: 1/4-075290-F

Date: December 1972

From: Fearnley, Charles James, 1915-1988 :Photographs of New Zealand buildings

Reference: 1/4-075296-F