Saltaire, Bower Avenue, North New Brighton
Saltaire, Bower Avenue, North New Brighton
[ca. 1930]
William Allan Hopkins (1857-1933), commonly known as Allan Hopkins, was a prominent real estate agent with an office in Cathedral Square next to the Bank of New Zealand. He built an attractive house, Saltaire, among the sand dunes at North New Brighton. Hopkins went bankrupt in a spectacular fashion in 1921, was sentenced to four years' imprisonment and died in Wellington. He is buried in the Karori Cemetery. Saltaire was purchased by Charles Dixon, a butcher, in 1922. The house was eventually pulled down and, from the 1950s until 2001, The Redemptorist priests had a monastery on the site
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