The big building on Itchen Street is the 1867 Star & Garter, which began life in 1867 as a Masonic hall but quickly became a hotel in 1876. The smaller building in the first photo's foreground is unassuming but also old J.G. Flett's Bookstore, dating to 1871.


The 1883 New Zealand Elevator Company building is across from the east end of Itchen Street.


The 1882 Connell and Clowes store is at the top of Tyne Street where it meets Itchen Street.


The 1876 O̅amaru Harbour Board Office, Venetian Renaissance style, pokes its head out from Harbour Street next to the equally old A.H. Maude's stores.


One of the most beautiful architectural blocks in New Zealand starts with the 1877 Criterion Hotel. The entire block of buildings is done in Victorian Italianate style and was pretty much all built at the same time.


Smith's Grain Store, smooshed up against the south end of the hotel, opened a bit later, in 1882.


Union Offices are next (also seen in the 2nd Criterion Hotel photo).


National Mortgage and Agency Co. Strange name, cool building.


And right up against that building is the 1875 Exchange Chambers.


The very end of the block is the 1883 T.H. Brown and Company's Auction Mart.


While all that was going on on the east side of Tyne Street, the 1878 Union Bank of Australia is on the west.


The 1883 Custom House is just barely disconnected from all the other buildings on the east side, and done in a different architectural style (Neoclassical).


Farthest south, and thus last on this page, is the 1880 Northern Hotel on the southwest corner of Tyne and Wansbeck Streets. I hope it's still there, since it has sat vacant for many years as of this writing.

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