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Hotel Empire,Revell St, Hokitika. ca.1940.
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DescriptionHotel Empire, Hokitika, ca 1940.Date of Photo1940Map[1]
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Location (city or town)HokitikaRevell StOrganisation (eg business)Hotel EmpireEventHotel Empire, Hokitika, ca 1940.
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CommentsSamarra Wright
Anyone know what street it was on?
ShonaandMurray Marshall
It’s got to be Revell street surely
Samarra Wright
ShonaandMurray Marshall I've never seen pictures of this one?
Marilyn Paterson
It was in Revell St.
Raeone Wallace
must of been alot of empire hotels in hokitika
No photo description available.
Casey Neill
It's where Fat Pipis is now by the looks
Mike Keenan
ShonaandMurray Marshall I honestly don’t know where the Empire Hotel was
I can remember the Dominion Hotel next to where St Vinnies is in Revell street
ShonaandMurray Marshall
Mike Keenan yes I remember that. Old lady used to sit out the front in the sun.
ShonaandMurray Marshall
Mike Keenan I found this article it may have been further south on Revell street.
May be an image of 4 people and text that says 'westcoast.recollect.co.nz 94% ABOUT THIS IMAGE Description Probably: Revell Street ooking north from Camp intersection the 1880s, James Glenn Johnston writes: This picture northward up Revell Street between Camp Hamilton Streets. esite which now park. SE comer with Hamilton Street National The building the Henry records, occupied ground storey Lodge building Richards Printing Revell the lodge theroom upstairs Opposite the name of which at but Revell he eftis another hotel the Exchange Hotel. Chronicle west (seaward) side be the Empire? The next Zealand Hokitika Street Scene fHokitika 880's Burton Bros. Photographer Photo further'
Mike Keenan
ShonaandMurray Marshall you are onto it —- well done
Margaret Atkinson
In Revell street about where spca shop is Bryant's shoe shop was next door
Dianne Kemp
I thought the Empire Hotel was down Revell street opposite where Maitland’s Furniture used to be .,Wasn’t it owned by the Devaney’s ( and then maybe The Keats family ?
ShonaandMurray Marshall
Dianne Kemp think that was the commercial and then there was the one right on the corner where Colleen and Ray white had, and put laundry Matt there. When you think in 1860 there were over 80 pubs in Revell street. Must have been big drinker
Jeanette Sandri
It looks like the old occidental flats opposite were Maitland's were.
Bev Kelly
Was it the hotel that was quite near to Richards Grocer shop, perhaps?
ShonaandMurray Marshall
Bev Kelly that was the Dominion
Carol Linklater
I remember the Hotel. It was burnt in 1950's and was in Revell Street about where the 2nd hand shop is or the New World car park. There was another further along Revell Street same side towards what was Hood's Shop.
Marilyn Paterson
Carol Linklater oh there’s my theory out the door then ! It must have been the other one I can remember.
Glenn Johnston
Gone before my time but I do remember the Dominion further south on the same street.
PaulAnthony Teens
Almost directly on opposite the Southland car park on Revel Street but a little north
David Stewart
Was it not over the toad from Southland hotel..Burnt down early 60s.i remembér big.?
David Stewart
Big fire
John Flattery-donohoe
empire hotel in ross .dont know if still is but was there late 60s still
Clare Pierson
According to Henry Pierson in his book "The Crooked Mile" the Empire Hotel was originally called the Masonic. There was a music shop beside it and next to that was where Jim Fairlie began his fruit and vege business back in the 1950s, on the East side of Revell Street. Gordon Bryant shoe shop was on the North side of the Empire Hotel. Towards the end of the time it was called Masonic it was owned by someone called Morgan. Then Dick Furness ran it followedby Ted Sheriff then an English man called Tommy Thompson. At that time Henry who worked for Groufskys did some repairs to the building. Next was George Agnew until the Licensing Commission decided to reduce the number of Hotels in Hokitika. The Empire burned down in 1959.
Marilyn Paterson
Clare Pierson thanks, I was going to get that book out today to check.I think the one down the other end may have been the Dominion, but I’ll check. I can remember the fire, I was in town with my mother when there was a fire down at Fairlies end. What a lot of history was in Hokitika on Revell St.
Clare Pierson
Marilyn Paterson I had left Hokitika in January 1959 so was not there at the time of that fire.
Kath Rogers
The verander next to it looks like svdp shop verander
Raylene Cathcart
Kelvin Keats may have had that pub I think he had racehorses...
Anyone know what street it was on?
ShonaandMurray Marshall
It’s got to be Revell street surely
Samarra Wright
ShonaandMurray Marshall I've never seen pictures of this one?
Marilyn Paterson
It was in Revell St.
Raeone Wallace
must of been alot of empire hotels in hokitika
No photo description available.
Casey Neill
It's where Fat Pipis is now by the looks
Mike Keenan
ShonaandMurray Marshall I honestly don’t know where the Empire Hotel was
I can remember the Dominion Hotel next to where St Vinnies is in Revell street
ShonaandMurray Marshall
Mike Keenan yes I remember that. Old lady used to sit out the front in the sun.
ShonaandMurray Marshall
Mike Keenan I found this article it may have been further south on Revell street.
May be an image of 4 people and text that says 'westcoast.recollect.co.nz 94% ABOUT THIS IMAGE Description Probably: Revell Street ooking north from Camp intersection the 1880s, James Glenn Johnston writes: This picture northward up Revell Street between Camp Hamilton Streets. esite which now park. SE comer with Hamilton Street National The building the Henry records, occupied ground storey Lodge building Richards Printing Revell the lodge theroom upstairs Opposite the name of which at but Revell he eftis another hotel the Exchange Hotel. Chronicle west (seaward) side be the Empire? The next Zealand Hokitika Street Scene fHokitika 880's Burton Bros. Photographer Photo further'
Mike Keenan
ShonaandMurray Marshall you are onto it —- well done
Margaret Atkinson
In Revell street about where spca shop is Bryant's shoe shop was next door
Dianne Kemp
I thought the Empire Hotel was down Revell street opposite where Maitland’s Furniture used to be .,Wasn’t it owned by the Devaney’s ( and then maybe The Keats family ?
ShonaandMurray Marshall
Dianne Kemp think that was the commercial and then there was the one right on the corner where Colleen and Ray white had, and put laundry Matt there. When you think in 1860 there were over 80 pubs in Revell street. Must have been big drinker
Jeanette Sandri
It looks like the old occidental flats opposite were Maitland's were.
Bev Kelly
Was it the hotel that was quite near to Richards Grocer shop, perhaps?
ShonaandMurray Marshall
Bev Kelly that was the Dominion
Carol Linklater
I remember the Hotel. It was burnt in 1950's and was in Revell Street about where the 2nd hand shop is or the New World car park. There was another further along Revell Street same side towards what was Hood's Shop.
Marilyn Paterson
Carol Linklater oh there’s my theory out the door then ! It must have been the other one I can remember.
Glenn Johnston
Gone before my time but I do remember the Dominion further south on the same street.
PaulAnthony Teens
Almost directly on opposite the Southland car park on Revel Street but a little north
David Stewart
Was it not over the toad from Southland hotel..Burnt down early 60s.i remembér big.?
David Stewart
Big fire
John Flattery-donohoe
empire hotel in ross .dont know if still is but was there late 60s still
Clare Pierson
According to Henry Pierson in his book "The Crooked Mile" the Empire Hotel was originally called the Masonic. There was a music shop beside it and next to that was where Jim Fairlie began his fruit and vege business back in the 1950s, on the East side of Revell Street. Gordon Bryant shoe shop was on the North side of the Empire Hotel. Towards the end of the time it was called Masonic it was owned by someone called Morgan. Then Dick Furness ran it followedby Ted Sheriff then an English man called Tommy Thompson. At that time Henry who worked for Groufskys did some repairs to the building. Next was George Agnew until the Licensing Commission decided to reduce the number of Hotels in Hokitika. The Empire burned down in 1959.
Marilyn Paterson
Clare Pierson thanks, I was going to get that book out today to check.I think the one down the other end may have been the Dominion, but I’ll check. I can remember the fire, I was in town with my mother when there was a fire down at Fairlies end. What a lot of history was in Hokitika on Revell St.
Clare Pierson
Marilyn Paterson I had left Hokitika in January 1959 so was not there at the time of that fire.
Kath Rogers
The verander next to it looks like svdp shop verander
Raylene Cathcart
Kelvin Keats may have had that pub I think he had racehorses...
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West Coast New Zealand History (5th Oct 2022). Hotel Empire,Revell St, Hokitika. ca.1940.. In Website West Coast New Zealand History. Retrieved 24th Apr 2026 02:11, from https://westcoast.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/13747