Brick warehouses and stone offices of the 1870s and 1880s line straight streets, with bluestone kerbs in the new paving.
What Warehouse Precinct looks like
runs south from . Bond, Crawford and Cumberland Streets run parallel to it, and Liverpool, Jetty and Police cross them. The streets run straight and level between buildings of two to four storeys. Brick fronts, many painted or rendered, have arched upper windows and a cornice that runs along the block.
, the former Equitable Insurance building on the Queens Gardens corner, is a two-storey stone block with its name lettered across the top. The at 7 to 9 Liverpool Street is a classical stone building from 1882, with a pediment and columns along its front. The building at 319 Princes Street, on the corner of Liverpool, has fluted columns and dates from 1874.
Many of the brick warehouses and offices date from the 1870s and 1880s. The Hogg, Howison, Nicol building at 19 Vogel Street was built in 1881 with brick walls over a Port Chalmers stone base.
Vogel Street has been resurfaced, and its historic bluestone kerbstones were kept in the new paving. Queens Gardens sits at the north end, and the view down Vogel Street opens over grass.
Shot in Warehouse Precinct
The Royal Treatment (2022) filmed its New York hairdressing scenes around Vogel Street and the precinct, and Vogel Street between Police Street and Queens Gardens was closed to traffic for filming. Uproar (2023) staged its 1981 protest showdown on Bond Street, and Black Christmas (2019) used the closed Heritage Cafe on the corner of Jetty and Vogel Streets for its interiors.
The Royal Treatment, 2022
Played a New York hairdressing district, New York City, present day
The NZ Herald saw most of the evening action gather at the Wains Hotel, with a white limousine parked outside it during the shoot. The hotel is a Victorian building at 310 Princes Street, on the western edge of the precinct, and the New York hairdressing work was filmed around Vogel Street.
Nineteenth century wool stores line Santo Parade in Port Adelaide. Vogel Street's bluestone kerbs give Dunedin away at street level, so frame the fronts and keep the kerb out of the shot. Try searching wool stores now.
Thames Street in Oamaru, Otago
Lower Thames Street in Oamaru has a run of 19th century commercial buildings built from local stone, a paler version of the precinct's stone and brick fronts. The pale limestone reads lighter than Vogel Street's brick, so keep shots to the stone fronts rather than wide views of the precinct. Try searching Oamaru stone commercial buildings now.
