The Karori Hotel, 291 Tinakori Road, Thorndon

The Karori Hotel photographed from the the front yard of a house on the opposite side of Tinakori Road in Thorndon. A small section of what was then called the Sydney Street Cemetery (later known as the Bolton Street Cemetery) can be seen top-left. 

The Karori Hotel was established in the 1850s with the building lasting until c. 1927 when it was replaced with a pair of shops (with flats located above) that survive to this day (2024). The slightly confusing name given to the establishment relates to the fact that upper Tinakori Road / Glenmore Street was once commonly known as Karori Road (being the road to Karori). See this postcard for another example.

Note that the building in this photograph was previously mistakenly identified as being the Shepherds Arms Hotel. The Shepherds Arms at 285 Tinakori Road is about 25 metres down from where the Karori Hotel was once located and would have been located just to the left of the view shown here.