page_title: John Endean
section_title: Life in Auckland
hierarchical_section_title: John Endean / Life in Auckland
caption_attribution_description: English: Terrace Houses, 29, 27, 25 Symonds Street, Auckland, New Zealand. Build 1897 as residential buildings and associated place houses for John Endean.
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: They moved to Auckland, where he continued as a hotel proprietor; first of the Railway Terminus Hotel from December 1877, and from February 1887 of the Waitemata Hotel. The Waitemata was located on the south-west corner of the intersection of Customs and Queen Street. One of his sons, John Albert "Jack" Endean (born 11 February 1874), took over the licence from him. Today, the site is occupied by the Tower Centre (45 Queen Street).
  In 1894, his wife was one of two women who stood for election to Auckland City Council, only one year after women received the vote in New Zealand. The other woman was elected in the Parnell Ward, but Ellen Endean came fourth and last in the Grafton Ward.
  Endean built the Endeans Building on the corner of Queen and Quay Streets in Auckland in 1905, which was replaced after a fire in 1914–15; it is listed as a Category II heritage building. The family lived in a large house in Symonds Street, which is listed as a Category I heritage building.
caption: The private house of the Endean family in Symonds Street, Auckland, built in circa 1897
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