Grey Buildings, Chancery Street
1912 (Henry Winkelmann) - 2025
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The construction of Grey Buildings on the corner of Chancery Street and Courthouse Lane must have just recently been completed when Henry Winkelmann made this photograph in November, 1912.
Below: Grey Buildings looks much as it did in 1912 when this 1961 photograph was taken, showing the construction of the Ellen Melville Hall.
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Below: By 1982, when this picture was taken for Auckland City Council, the building had been stripped of nearly all of its original exterior detailing.
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Below: The building was still standing in 1986 when this photograph was made (by an unknown photographer) but it would soon be demolished, along with neighbouring buildings.
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For a then-and-now treatment of a 1919 James Richardson photograph showing Grey Buildings, click here.
