Eden Crescent, north side, from opposite Short Street
1860s (unknown photographer) - 2025
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1860s image: Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira | composite of PH-ALB-299-p21-2 and PH-ALB-94-p5-1
Note the abrupt drop in street level at far right in the 1860s image; this was presumably a gully containing the stream Te Wai Ariki, a spring whose waters ran through this area down to the nearby Waitematā harbour, long since covered over. It can be seen below in a detail from a Felton Mathew 1841 map of the city.
Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections Map 4611 (detail)
