Former Post Office (1864 Great North Road)

This building was the first purpose-built Post Office in Avondale. Prior to 1938, the Post Office had been part of general stores (from 1863), the railway station (until 1912), and was housed in the former Avondale Hotel (1912–1938). The building was officially opened on 19 August 1938 by the Hon. H. G. R. Mason, MP, Attorney General, and Minister of Justice. It was built by the firm of J. A. Penman and Sons, and the architect was Llewellyn Stanley Piper of L. S. Piper and Sons (who also designed the Auckland Electric Power Board building in Newmarket). The siting of the Post Office changed the position of the centre of Avondale to the intersection of Great North Road and Rosebank Road, from the Five-Roads intersection. From that time on, the Avondale shopping centre spread as a strip along the main road.

Continue along Rosebank Road.