Teasey's Building, 1939- (Place)

SummaryWilliam Thomas Teasey (1871-1950) built next to his son Harry's "Teasey's Garage" in 1939 on a site described as practically level but with "a rise of approximately 16 inches north to south" and containing a small Brick Office that would need removing beforehand. On the other side of the road had stood Teasey's "Progressive Building" since 1912. This building is a two-storey reinforced-concrete commercial building in the Art Deco style common between the World Wars. It had strong horizontal emphasis beneath a low-pitched roof, vertical linear detailing, rectangular patterning, chevron pediments, and a cantilevered street verandah suspended on wrought-iron ties with pressed-metal lining. When the building was first built it provided retail premises on the ground floor, offices upstairs including a room for a piano teacher, with some accommodation at the rear of the first floor. The Tauranga Rowing Club began with meetings in a shed at the back of Teasey’s building before they moved to more appropriate premises on the water’s edge

SourcesCentral Tauranga Heritage Study : part two, April 2008Tauranga properties in the city centre - sheet 2Shirley Arabin's notes on "46 Devonport Road"Building PlansBuilding Plan ElevationsSpecifications of Works and Material required in the Erection of BUSINESS PREMESIS, DEVONPORT ROAD. Tauranga. For MR W.T. TEASEY (C.H.D. PORTER (Architect)

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Teasey's building 1911

46 Devonport Road

Photographed by Rodney Giddens in 2015. Te Ao Mārama - Tauranga City Libraries Photo 15-224

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Date Built1939

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Location46 Devonport Road, TaurangaLatitude/Longitude^[1]

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Teasey's Building, 1939- (Place)