THEN AND NOW.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1064, 1 March 1911, Page 5

THEN AND NOW.

NEW BUILDING ON LAMBTON QUAY. In tho recently-demolished wooden buildings.on L'ambton Quay lately in the occupation of Messrs. L. W. Ludwig, jeweller, and Gallato Bros., oyster saloonkeepers, an old lond-mnrk has been removed, iho old buildings were planned by iIT. C. lnngbnm in 1875, and. v/heii erected were considered u very valuable addition to tho architecture of Lambton Q ua r- Long ago, however, time- had marked them as buildings .of a past age, and the growth of the city around them had dwarfed tnem almost to insignificance. They were nnumgsl: tho buildings erected by tho Evans Estate trustees, the stretch of beach land from Hannah'.-? old building to tho vicinity of Woodward Street being the town ncre luckily <wurod by Dr. Evans in the first New Zealand Land Company's ballot.

A few years ago the property was purchased by Messrs. F. Penty, W. Teasdalo, and 11. C. Gibbons, who are now erecting a substantial three-story brick block, having a frontage to Lambton Quay' of 36ft. Gin. by n. depth of about 70ft.' (the section extends right book to Wellington Terrace). Tho ground floor is to be divided into two shops, in between which there will be an entrance hall, and stairway leading to the first and spcnnd floors, which are to bo sub-divided into officos. One of the slums is to be tenanted by Mr. L. W. Lndwig. whose father, strange to say, was tho original lenaiit of one nf the old shons just demolished. -Ifp'srs. Penty and Lawrence are to offices at ths rear of the first floor. The plnns nf thiy novr Imildimr were proper**) lir Messrs. IVnty ai"l Inwrrnriv and it is hem',' croi-tcd by Mr. W. I-. Thompson at a cost of ohouf .PIQIlil. Mr. Thompson states that fie wood (heart of n'll'ni "'id karri) in the shop 'necunied by Mr. I.i'dwi" was in a wonderful stale of preservation.