THE STANTON BUILDING

The first building on this central Dunedin site is believed to have served as the Hallenstein’s Clothing Factory and then an auction rooms before being demolished.

Completed in 1907 for a tailor, the existing property is of brick and concrete construction, with precast concrete floor panels and reinforced concrete ring beams on each floor holding the building together. Two more storeys were planned but never built.

The building was later bought by the Bank of New Zealand, which used part of it for offices and rented the rest to Stanton Bros stationers and printers. That company, which appears to have started in the early 1930s, had contracts for printing Government forms. Its offices were on the ground floor with sorting rooms on the first floor and the print and diemaking division on the second floor (then the top floor of the building).