Time travel. Old Auckland

The past that became an integral part of daily occurrence. Old Auckland is a historic district in the city center. This area is located on the northwest side of Broadway, between City Center Complex and Jack London Square; it stretches from Broadway to Chinatown. 

Auckland's old district was the original city center in the 1860s. The city was founded when the terminal station of the Central Pacific Railway was opened on 7th Street. By the 1870s, brick hotels in Victorian style were being built in the neighborhoods surrounding the railway station where the travelers got rest. The hotel’s ground floor was designed as a series of small shops. Therefore, people visited them while walking around the district. The architectural styles of that time had some features: high cast-iron columns and large mirrored windows.

The city center began to decline after the earthquake in San Francisco in 1906. The shopping district began to move to the quarters to the North from 14th Street.

In the 1970s and 1980s, developers began actively reviving and restoring the district along 9th Street between Washington Street and Broadway. It was known as the Victorian Series. One of the most interesting buildings in the Victorian Series is the Nicholl Block of 1878.

In the first days of its existence, the Auckland Tribune rented a small office on 9th Street. You can see the signboard of Tribune Office today, hanging outside as a memory. The farmer's market works every Friday on the same place on the 9th Street as it did several centuries ago.

Today, this area is restoring and improving. Workers create a comfortable environment for citizens. For example, new bistros and boutiques are opening more because of the increasing number of buildings around. The popularity of housing in this area is increasing every year.