Category 2 historic place

Automatic Telephone Exchange

35 Browning Street, Napier South, Napier · Napier City

Automatic Telephone Exchange,Napier. Taken 2020 showing the original entrance of the 1938. Image courtesy of knowledgebank.org.nz CC BY-NC 3.0
Photo: © Knowledge Bank Hawkes Bay

Automatic Telephone Exchange is a Category 2 historic place on the New Zealand Heritage List / Rārangi Kōrero, entered on 23 September 2021. It was built in 1937–1938, designed by Fergus Sheppard and John Thomas Mair and Barry Marshall.

List entry
Historic Place Category 2
List number
2795
Entered on the list
23 September 2021
Status
Listed
Built
1937–1938
Architects and builders
Ferguson Building Contractors (Builder); Fergus Sheppard (Architect); John Thomas Mair (Architect); Barry Marshall (Architect); TG Wrightson (Builder)
Used as
Telephone Exchange
Formerly
Telephone Exchange
Also known as
Napier Exchange; Telecom Exchange; Napier Central Telephone Exchange
Public access
Private/No Public Access
Council
Napier City Council
Region
Hawke's Bay

Later work

Addition 1968 · Modification 1971

The property

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