(Quins Building)
1 Cains Terrace
1886
Architect Maurice Duval
Builder William Werry & Hunt
This building was originally known as Quinns Building and later Werry's Hotel. It is Victorian with Italianate influences constructed of brick and plaster. Werry learned the building trade form his father in Cornwall. In 1890 he was joined by W.H Hunt and the partnership constructed a number of city centre buildings. It was described early in the century as a fine hotel with lofty rooms, well furnished and and very populate under the management of Mr Werry. The building served as a hotel until the early 1930s when it was purchase by the Meedhand Brothers who had the building next door in George Street. In 1935 it was purchased by the Commercial Bank of Australia and had the following year after some renovation work the bank occupied the ground floor. The top top floors the bedroom's were altered andd refurbished for leasing as offices. Major exterior and ground floor renovations were carried out in 1969.
Significant elements include pilasters, hood moulds, Corinthian decoration, arched windows, cornice brackets parapet.
Maurice Duval, a Belgian architect.
c.1910. Originally a Temperance Hotel, it was built close to the Railway station on the corner of George and Cains Terrace. The front right hand side of the postcard reads: 'This popular Private Hotel is close to the Railway Station and affords excellent accommodation for travellers and tourists. Tariff moderate. Letters and telegrams promptly attended to. Werry's Private Hotel, Timaru. (M. Werry, Proprietress)'. Muir & Moodie (Firm), Werry's Hotel, Timaru, N.Z. (c.1910). Hocken Digital Collections, accessed 17/04/2025, https://hocken.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/52777. No known copyright or other restrictions on use exist in this image. Permission to use this item for any purpose, including publishing, is not required from the Hocken under these conditions of use.
Crowds gather to watch the parade, led by a horse-drawn carriage on a street lined with commercial buildings, Timaru, to celebrate the coronation of George V. The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives. Ref: 1/1-008620-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/29942057
1958 Stafford Street, Timaru. New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives. Ref: PAColl-8983-52. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22445605