The building was designed by Edmund Anscombe and built in the late 1920s and is part of a historic precinct that also includes the Dunedin Law Courts and Dunedin Railway Station.
The street runs in a north-north-east direction from Stuart Street outside Dunedin Railway Station to the southern end of the Dunedin Botanical Gardens, and is bisected into two distinct parts by the University of Otago campus.
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Railway stations in Auckland, Rotorua, Christchurch, Dunedin, Napier and Oamaru were sold, along with substantial tracts of land previously used for rail operations.