Teasey's Garage, 1932- (Place)

SummaryTeasey’s Garage at what is now 42 Devonport Road was built around 1932 as a single-storey reinforced concrete motor garage for Harry Joseph Teasey. He repaired motor cars and engines. It reflects an earlier phase in Devonport Road’s development when service, residential, retail, and light industrial uses existed side by side. It would soon change in favour od retail and commercial alone. Designed in the Art Deco style, the building has a smooth plastered façade with a stepped parapet and a higher central section containing a rectangular window. Raised Art Deco lettering spells out “Teasey’s” and “Garage,” and the numerals “19” and “32” are set on the flanking columns. A cantilevered street verandah, hung from wrought-iron ties and lined with patterned pressed metal, shelters the shopfronts below. The original columns marking the wide garage entrance, where petrol pumps once stood, are still visible, although the patterned glass in the shopfront windows has been replaced with clear glazing.SourcesCentral Tauranga Heritage Study : part two, April 2008Tauranga properties in the city centre - sheet 2 (1934)

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Teasey's Garage c. 1940s

Enhanced version of Photo 01-653 from the 1930s or 40s (inset).

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Date Built1932

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Location42 Devonport Road, Tauranga

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Teasey's Garage, 1932- (Place)