Hampton Court Flats

Hampton Court
Hampton Court
General information
Architectural style	Neo-Georgian
Location	182 Federal Street And 58 Wellesley Street West, Auckland, New Zealand
Coordinates	36.850378°S 174.761838°E
Completed	1930
Design and construction
Architect(s)	S. S Alleman
Awards and prizes	NZIA Gold Medal in 1930
Heritage New Zealand – Category 2
Designated	26 November 1981
Reference no.	585

Hampton Court is a historic apartment building in Auckland, New Zealand.[1] It was designed by Surrey S. Alleman. Alleman was awarded the NZIA Gold Medal for 1930 for this building - he was 29 years old at the time.[2] Construction of the building was announced in the NZ Herald in January 1929 for the corner of Wellesley and Lower Vincent St (as it was then known), for an estimated cost of 42,000 pounds, and the construction contract had been let to J T Julian Ltd.[3]

The building opened in 1931, and was converted to offices in the late 1950s, when the ninth floor was added. During World War II there was a nightclub that hosted African American servicemen who were on leave, as they were not allowed into the Wintergarden or Auckland Town Hall with the white US servicemen as the US Army was segregated at that time - the club was known as the American Negro Club and featured jazz groups performing.[4] The building was renovated in 1995 and converted back to apartments.

References

"Hampton Court". New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero. Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
"Architecture prize". Auckland Star. 17 February 1931 – via Paperspast.
"New block of flats". New Zealand Herald. 21 January 1929. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
Bourke, Chris (2010). Blue smoke : the lost dawn of New Zealand popular music, 1918-1964. Auckland, N.Z. p. 125. ISBN 978-1-77558-514-5. OCLC 864675794.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

External links

Photographs of Hampton Court Flats held in Auckland Libraries' heritage collections.

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[NZHPT_585-1] "Hampton Court". New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero. Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 17 June 2016.

[2] "Architecture prize". Auckland Star. 17 February 1931 – via Paperspast.

[3] "New block of flats". New Zealand Herald. 21 January 1929. Retrieved 26 March 2021.

[4] Bourke, Chris (2010). Blue smoke : the lost dawn of New Zealand popular music, 1918-1964. Auckland, N.Z. p. 125. ISBN 978-1-77558-514-5. OCLC 864675794.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)