Symonds Street intersection •
Cordis Hotel, 77–79 Symonds Street. At the corner of Karangahape Road and Symonds Street. This was a
Sheraton Hotel before becoming part of the Langham chain. In 2017, Langham Hotel was renamed the Cordis Hotel.
Partington's Windmill stood on the site from 1850 to 1950. The windmill's demolition was controversial and led to laws for heritage protection and the formation of
Heritage New Zealand. • 1910 tram shelter, Symonds Street. Built in 1910 by Auckland City Council to accompany the adjoining bridge this ornate tram shelter includes public toilets. These may have been the first public toilets for women. •
Symonds Street Cemetery, one of the oldest cemeteries in Auckland and the first official burial ground. Here are located the graves of many of Auckland's early settlers including Captain
William Hobson, the first Governor of New Zealand who died in 1842. The cemetery was officially closed in 1905 when it was handed over to the
Auckland City Council as a park. When the motorway system was constructed in the mid 1960s, it required the moving of over 4100 bodies. These were reinterred in two memorial sites within the cemetery. •
Karangahape Rocks, a 1969 sculpture by
Greer Twiss at Pigeon Park, on the corner of Symonds Street and Karangahape Road. • Jewish Centennial Memorial Hall. Designed by Albert Goldwater and his son John Goldwater this structure is in the
International Modernist style. Dating from 1953 this chapel and mortuary replaces an earlier wooden building from the 19th century. It commemorates the first Jewish religious ceremony held in New Zealand in 1853.
Queen Street intersection • Former
Bank of New South Wales. 111 Karangahape Road. 1926 Neo-Georgian building. During the first half of the 20th century banks so favoured the use of this style that it was even satirised as "
Bankers Georgian". This is the first project in New Zealand by the Australian Engineering firm of
Stevenson and Turner, who have subsequently been responsible for most of the larger hospitals. •
Baptist Tabernacle, 1884,
Edmund Bell architect. 429–431 Queen St. This brick and stucco structure was designed in the Imperial Roman style. Based upon the London
Metropolitan Tabernacle located at the
Elephant and Castle. The Portico is a quotation from the
Pantheon in Rome. •
Ironbank, 150–154 K Road: An award-winning modern (2009) mixed-used development lauded and criticised for looking like "rusting containers". • J Morris Ltd, 151 Karangahape Road. English Baroque style building by
William Holman. J Morris Ltd was a Homewares store which has the record of organising the first
Auckland Christmas Parade in 1912, an idea later copied by George Courts and eventually the
Farmers Trading Company. • Melverns, •
Myers Park. On the slope of the Karangahape ridge facing north towards the
Waitematā Harbour is a natural gully now the site of Myers Park, created by the efforts of, and named after
Arthur Myers MP. This is, or rather was, the start of the
Waihorotiu Stream also known as the "Queen Street River". • Espano Flats – 20 Poynton Terrace.
Spanish Mission style apartment block by
A. Sinclair O'Connor. • Former
Rendell's Department Store, •
Body Positive 1/3 Poynton Terrace, a private street off Pitt street. Established in 1980s, Body positive is a peer support organisation providing care and support to all people living with HIV/AIDS in New Zealand, as well as advocating and combat stigma surrounding HIV. •
Naval & Family Hotel – 1897, Arthur Pollard Wilson architect, who also designed
Strand Arcade,
Arthur H Nathan Warehouse,
Northern Steam Ship Company Building and
Isaacs’ Bonded Stores. Corner of Pitt Street and K Road. An ornate three-storey building with
Italianate,
English Baroque and
Queen Anne influences. A veranda was added in the 1940s, the original building being designed without one, in common with many hotels of the colonial period, to discourage intoxicated men from loitering outside. It has an
Historic Places Trust B classification, which protects the exterior. A Georgian-style hotel occupied the site from about 1862 until it burnt down in 1894.''' around 1913 and remained one into the 1960s. In the 1980s, Clown's restaurant was located here. Currently the Thirsty Dog Pub. • Garrets Block – Cnr Howe street. 1886 brick retail buildings for the Garrett Brothers who operated a boot manufacturing & retail establishment here. These buildings replaced wooden shops which burnt down in a great fire in 1885 which destroyed this entire block. • Purchas Block – 444–472 Karangahape Road. Designed by
Edward Bartley and built in 1884 for Dr Purchas. Expensive English red brick and
Oamaru Stone detailing is used on the facades. The bronze shop window frames and
Mintons tile shop fronts date from the 1930s.
Edinburgh Street intersection • Pacific Island Church – Edinburgh Street. This is the First Pacific Island Church in New Zealand, founded by the late Susuga a le Toeaina Reverend Leuatea Sio in 1947. The current building dates from 1962 and was used as a location for the wedding scenes in the 2006 film ''Sione's Wedding'' and a similar scene in the 2012 sequel film. • Pacific Island Church Memorial – outside the church is a granite obelisk erected in 1997 to commemorate the 50-year anniversary of the founding of the church in 1947 by the late Susuga a le Toeaina Reverend Leuatea Sio. The obelisk is engraved with Pacific Island images and patterns; the lamp which surmounted it has been recently restored. • Pacific Island Church Hall – The current building dates from 1979 and was opened by the then Prime Minister
Robert Muldoon, it replaces several late Victorian wooden buildings which had been the centre of the Newton Presbyterian Church. • Maori Hall – 5 Edinburgh Street. 1907
Foresters Hall turned into a Maori community facility in 1931. Currently owned by the PI Church opposite.
Hereford Street intersection • George Wallace Building – 510 Karangahape Road. Built in 1913 as a furniture store this was the location of the Pink Pussy Cat Club from 1963 to 2001 • M.J.Bennett Building – 501 Karangahape Rd. Built for M J Bennett Ltd, a firm of decorators, house painters and colour merchants. This building is circa 1902, which is later than the adjacent buildings which are from 1886. The wooden shops which previously occupied this block were burnt down in a great fire in 1885. From 1885 until 1902 the Newton Volunteer Fire Brigade was located on this site prior to the formation of the Auckland Municipal Fire Board in 1902 and the construction of the fire station in nearby Pitt street the same year. Mathew James Bennett was the first president of the Karangahape Road Businessmen's Association in 1924. • Ambury & English Building – 531 Karangahape Road. Currently Joy Bong Thai restaurant. An early tenant was the Ambury & English Devonshire Dairy. In the 1970s the
KG nightclub was located here, one of NZ's first lesbian nightclubs. • Old Folks Coronation Hall – 8 Gundry Street. Community Hall designed by
Henry Kulka, a pupil of
Adolf Loos in 1953, partially funded with money to celebrate the Queen's Coronation. Opened by Sir
Bill Jordan. The Auckland Old Folks Association was founded in 1945 and still operates the hall as a community facility.
Ponsonby Road intersection • Ponsonby Reservoir – The first reservoir on this site was designed by City Engineer William Errington. That structure from the 1880s was rebuilt in the 1950s when the adjoining pumping station and Turncock's house were demolished. This reservoir is gravity fed with water from the
Waitākere Ranges. • Vaana Peace Mural – Visual Artists Against Nuclear Arms. In 1985, eight founding VAANA artists:
Pat Hanly,
Margaret Lawlor-Bartlett, Jill Carter-Hansen, John Nicol, John Eaden,
Claudia Pond Eyley,
Nigel Brown and Vanya Lowry each painted large panels in the main gallery at Outreach (now Artstation) with members of the public giving verbal encouragement. Master potters Peter Lange and Lex Dawson worked with Master Builder Matt Stafford to fix the panels to the wall. The mural was recreated in 2006 with extra panels being added. ==Media connections==