Mutual Life & Citizens Assurance Company Building

Not to be confused with MLC Centre or MLC Tower.
Mutual Life & Citizens Assurance Company Building
General information
Architectural style Art Deco
Location 231 Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand
Coordinates 41°17′08″S 174°46′33″E / 41.285486°S 174.775931°E
Completed 1940
Technical details
Floor count 9
Design and construction
Architect Mitchell and Mitchell
Main contractor W.M. Angus Ltd
Official name MLC Building
Designated 2-Jul-1987
Reference no. 1406
Viewed from Lambton Quay

The Mutual Life & Citizens Assurance Company Building (also known as Richard Ellis House or the MLC building) is a building located on the corner of Lambton Quay, Hunter Street and Featherston Street in Wellington, New Zealand.

The MLC building was completed in 1940 at a cost of £101,494 by W.M. Angus Ltd.[1] for the, Australian-based insurance company, Mutual Life and Citizens Assurance Company. MLC operated its head office out of this building until 1985, when the New Zealand branch of the firm was taken over by New Zealand Insurance.[2]

The clock on the building was installed in 1953 (3 months too late for celebrations for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II).[3]

The building is classified as a "Category I" ("places of special or outstanding historical or cultural heritage significance or value") historic place by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.[4]

Very similar category 2 listed 1950s MLC building in Auckland

External links

References

  1. ↑ Wellington City Council
  2. ↑ Heritage Trails - Art Deco Trail - Wellington's 1930s Buildings
  3. ↑ Kernohan, D. (1994). "Wellington's Old Buildings", Wellington: Victoria University Press
  4. ↑ "MLC Building (Former)". Register of Historic Places. Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 2009-12-21.