John Endean made his money in gold mining in three countries. He settled in Auckland, New Zealand, where he was a hotel proprietor. The Endeans Building built for him on Auckland's Queen Street is a landmark that is registered with Heritage New Zealand; his private residence in Symonds Street is also a registered heritage building.
Portrait of John Endean published in The Cyclopedia of New Zealand
The Waitemata Hotel in 1927
The private house of the Endean family in Symonds Street, Auckland, built in circa 1897
Queen Street is the major commercial thoroughfare in the Auckland CBD, Auckland, New Zealand's main population centre. The northern end is at Queens Wharf on the Auckland waterfront, adjacent to the Britomart Transport Centre and the Downtown Ferry Terminal. The road is close to straight, the southern end being almost three kilometres away in a south-southwesterly direction on the Karangahape Road ridge, close to the residential suburbs in the interior of the Auckland isthmus.
View of Queen Street looking south from Fort Street, 2022
Queen Street (c.1889); painting by Jacques Carabain
Looking from Victoria Street East (1880s) across Queen Street (left to right centre) along the south side of Victoria Street West (right)
Lower Queen Street in 1919, with trams, cars and horse-drawn cabs visible.
