Apartment houses
Public housing projects
Date: 1940s
From: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994 :Photographs of private houses, public housing, and some furniture.
Reference: PAColl-5870-5
Description: Aerial views of state housing projects in progress in the Hutt Valley, Wellington. Views of streets with state houses in them and of individual state houses. High rise public housing apartment blocks, and a couple of designs for town centres. There are also some photographs of builders working on construction, and one view of piles of timber. Quantity: 52 b&w original photographic print(s).
Photographs of private and public housing, comunity projects, and furniture.
Date: 1933-1941
From: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994 :Photographs of private houses, public housing, and some furniture.
Reference: PAColl-5870-2
Description: Private houses at Nos 18 and 22 Vera Street, Karori, Wellington. Plans for two town centres, one of which is the proposed town centre for Nae Nae, Lower Hutt. Plan for a state house and photos of a model of a high rise public housing apartment block. Various photos which include houses, drawings for house interiors, and three items of furniture dating from 1933. Notes PAColl-5870-2-04 shows residential property owned by the architect Arthur Ward and his wife in 1941. Quantity: 30 b&w original photographic print(s).
New Zealand. Ministry of Works. Housing Division :Expanding houses. [Plans. 1956-1960]
Date: 1956 - 1960
By: Newman, Frederick Hugh, 1900-1964; New Zealand. Public Works Department. Housing Division.
Reference: E-627-f
Description: Includes plans for expanding houses, duplex units, multi-units, atrium flats, duplex flats, concrete flats, miscellaneous designs. Includes floor plans, elevations and perspective drawings. Folder also contains the small pink folder in which the plans were housed upon arrival at the Library. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints, 340 x 510 mm. Provenance: Donated by Ms Maria Newman, of Lower Hutt, in 2004.
Photographs of Auckland buildings
Date: January - March 2011
From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs
Reference: PADL-000642
Description: Photographs of Auckland region buildings taken January to March 2011 by Dylan Owen Arrangement: Images were originally in a folder labelled 'Buildings Jan to July 2011' Quantity: 32 digital photograph(s).
Photographs of Wellington buildings
Date: January - June 2011
From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs
Reference: PADL-000648
Description: Photographs of buildings in Wellington taken in February to June 2011 by Dylan Owen Arrangement: Images were originally in a folder labelled 'Buildings Jan to July 2011' Quantity: 23 digital photograph(s).
Photographs of Hutt Valley buildings
Date: January - June 2011
From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs
Reference: PADL-000649
Description: Photographs of buildings in Lower and Upper Hutt, Petone and Naenae taken in January to June 2011 by Dylan Owen Arrangement: Images were originally in a folder labelled 'Buildings Jan to July 2011' Quantity: 9 digital photograph(s).
Willis St, Wellington
Date: ca 1943
From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives
Reference: 1/4-000821-F
Description: View from the intersection of Ghuznee and Willis Streets, looking north along Willis Street, toward St John's Presbyterian church (on the left) and the Dixon Street flats (centre). Photographed by John Dobree Pascoe, circa 1943. Original caption reads: "The dignity of the new flats [Dixon Street] is a pleasant contrast to the cramped untidiness of the setting." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Entrance to the Dixon Street flats, Wellington
Date: 6 Dec 1943
From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives
Reference: 1/4-000818-F
Description: People walking from the entrance of the Dixon Street flats, Wellington. Photograph taken by John Dobree Pascoe on 6 December 1943. Original caption reads: "The entrance to the flats. The tenants include those whose need for accomodation is urgent, but preference is given to returned servicemen." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Inside the stairwell of the newly completed Dixon Street Flats, Wellington
Date: [ca 6 Dec 1943]
From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives
Reference: 1/4-000816-F
Description: Inside the stairwell of the newly completed Dixon Street Flats in Wellington, photographed by John Dobree Pascoe, circa 6 December 1943. Shows an unidentified woman standing by windows alongside the stairs. Photographer's caption reads: "A civil servant on her way downstairs. In Wellington, as in other cities, the war has brought new problems and accentuated old worries of housing and accomodation." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Newly completed Dixon Street Flats, Wellington
Date: ca 1943
From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives
Reference: 1/4-000810-F
Description: View of the newly completed Dixon Street Flats in Wellington, taken by John Dobree Pascoe, circa 1943. Original caption reads: "A view of the flats on their completion. They will house over 200 tenants. The construction is of monolithic reinforced concrete." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative