Eden Terrace is an inner city suburb of
Auckland
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, located 2 km south of the
Auckland CBD, in the
North Island
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of New Zealand. Eden Terrace is one of Auckland's oldest suburbs, and also one of the smallest; at just 47 hectares only
Newton is smaller.
Eden Terrace is under the governance of the
Auckland Council
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.
History
David Burn (c.1799 – 1875) was the first landowner in Eden Terrace to start subdividing farmland up for residential development. In 1863, he became the first editor of ''
The New Zealand Herald
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'' (then called the ''Herald''). He was also a playwright, journalist, and author of the first Australian drama to be performed on stage, The Bushrangers.
Scottish-born Burn immigrated to Auckland in 1847 and in 1849 bought land at the top of
Symonds Street from William Smellie Graham, who in turn had bought the land from the Crown in December 1848. Burn built his house, Cotele, on this property. The house was located at the intersection of Symonds Street, Mount Eden Road and New North Road, enjoying views north to the harbor and west to the Waitakeres.
He later moved to Emily Place and leased Cotele to various tenants.
In 1861 then again in 1863, Burn subdivided the land around Cotele into hundreds of small building allotments and sold them off at a considerable profit. New roads appeared as the land was subdivided; Burn was always "warmly attached to the navy and nautical matters"
[''Taranaki Herald'', Volume XXIII, Issue 2320, 3 July 1875, Page 3] which could explain his choice of road names:
Basque;
Dundonald; and
Exmouth – all associated with famous sea battles.
David Burn died in 1875, "in comfortable circumstances" thanks to selling the Cotele allotments at such high prices.
The early Victorian house built by Burn, Cotele, was replaced around the year 1900 by a two storied Edwardian
Arts & Crafts house. In the 1930s one storied shops were built on the frontyard of the house. The wooden house was just visible above the shops from Symonds Street until it burnt down in 1995. In the 2000s the site was completely cleared of buildings. It was proposed that this was to be the entry to the new Underground Railway Station but in 2014 it was announced that the Newton Station was to be dropped from the Central Rail Link (CRL).
Eden Terrace became a district in 1875.
Demographics
The statistical unit of Eden Terrace, which also covers
Newton and Khyber Pass west of the
Auckland Southern Motorway, but does not cover the area west of
Dominion Road, covers
and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km
2.
Eden Terrace had a population of 3,933 at the
2018 New Zealand census
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, an increase of 204 people (5.5%) since the
2013 census, and an increase of 1,035 people (35.7%) since the
2006 census. There were 1,803 households, comprising 2,091 males and 1,839 females, giving a sex ratio of 1.14 males per female. The median age was 30.7 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 189 people (4.8%) aged under 15 years, 1,653 (42.0%) aged 15 to 29, 1,965 (50.0%) aged 30 to 64, and 120 (3.1%) aged 65 or older.
Ethnicities were 54.6% European/
Pākehā
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, 5.5%
Māori, 3.0%
Pacific peoples, 37.3%
Asian, and 6.9% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.
The percentage of people born overseas was 58.2, compared with 27.1% nationally.
Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 55.3% had no religion, 25.8% were
Christian
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, 0.2% had
Māori religious beliefs, 5.9% were
Hindu, 2.6% were
Muslim, 2.7% were
Buddhist
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and 3.5% had other religions.
Of those at least 15 years old, 1,917 (51.2%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 84 (2.2%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $45,700, compared with $31,800 nationally. 1,014 people (27.1%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 2,487 (66.4%) people were employed full-time, 522 (13.9%) were part-time, and 156 (4.2%) were unemployed.
Buildings of interest
* Orange Coronation Ballroom. Architect:
Arthur Sinclair O'Connor. Located at the top of Newton Road, the Orange is an interesting minor gem of interwar
stripped classicism. The Orange was built in 1923 by the Auckland Orange Hall Society, a branch of Irish Protestants in Auckland. Dances and public entertainment were held there up until 1987.
Dame Kiri te Kanawa performed there, early in her career. Its sprung dance floor is still reputed to be one of the best in Auckland.
* Edinburgh Castle Hotel. Corner of Symonds Street and Newton Road. Built in 1865, it is an example of one of the simpler versions of the Italianate style. Surface plaster hides its original wooden construction. An Auckland Trotting Association was formed at a meeting held in the Edinburgh Castle on 21 May 1890. This club changed their name to the Onslow Trotting Club a little later, part of the origins of the Auckland Trotting Club and their racing today at Alexandra Park.
* Pierce Bldgs – corner of Symonds Street and Khyber Pass Road. Brick group of retail shops from around 1912 built for Eleanor Piece, the widow of Mr George Patrick Pierce who had died in 1891. George Pierce had been a church warden for the nearby Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Mrs Pierce died in 1912. The family sold the property in 1944 to Grace Brothers Ltd, a Furnishing Company.
* Former Post Office building. An
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structure from the 1930s.
* Former Eden Vine Hotel. Corner of Mt Eden Road, New North Road and Upper Symonds Street. The Eden Vine Hotel was built for William Galbraith in 1868. It lost its licence in 1905 and closed. For most of the 20th century this was occupied by an Undertakers Firm.
* Former Grafton Public Library – 2 Mt Eden Road.
neoclassical building from 1917 by
Edward Bartley. This was the first branch of the Auckland Public Library System - it was closed in the early 1990s and has subsequently become a Pub called Galbraith's.
* Pumping Station – 4 Mt Eden Road. 1950s modernist building by
Tibor Donner. Donner's first substantial design for the
Auckland City Council was this reinforced concrete pumping station designed to draw water from the
Hunua
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Hunua is east of Papakura, from Hunua Falls and lies at the foot of the Hunua Ranges, from where Auckland obtains most of its water supply. The literal tran ...
main supply to the
Mt. Eden reservoir. Completed early in 1948, the building's incised v-cut painted plaster finish exhibits the architect's characteristic precise and deliberate detailing. These concerns are further revealed in the tapering exterior hoods (now sawn off), sills, doorways, windows, stairways, glazed internal screens, handrails and built-in ply furniture. With this utilitarian structure, Donner was free to develop a functional modern solution that may not have been acceptable in other civic locations. It remains his most purely unaffected modernist work.
* Mount Eden Baptist Church – 8 Mount Eden Road. Wooden Gothic Church from the early 20th century.
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ABA Stadium
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– 1 Ngahura Street. Boxing stadium that launched careers of
Shane Cameron,
Soulan Pownceby
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and
Junior Fa.
See also
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Basque Park
Basque Park is a north-facing reserve in Eden Terrace, a former working class suburb in central Auckland, the largest city in New Zealand. It is surrounded by Symonds Street, Newton Road, New North Road and the North Western Motorway.
This green ...
References
External links
Photographs of Eden Terraceheld in
Auckland Libraries' heritage collections.
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Suburbs of Auckland
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