Albert Barracks
Former military installation in Auckland, New Zealand / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Albert Barracks was a major British military installation that overlooked Auckland, New Zealand, from the mid-1840s to 1870, during the city's early colonial period. The perimeter wall was built between 1846 and the early 1850s,[1] in the area now bounded by Kitchener Street, Waterloo Quadrant, Symonds Street, and Wellesley Street East, according to Colonel Thomas Rawlings Mould's 1860 map of Defensible Works round Auckland. The site is now mostly occupied by Albert Park and the University of Auckland's City Campus, and Princes Street runs through the centre of it. All that remains of the barracks structures is part of the perimeter wall, which is on the university campus.
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Coordinates | 36°51′4.21″S 174°46′11.24″E |
Completed | 1850 |
Designated | 23 June 1983[1] |
Reference no. | 12 |