Welsh McCarthy Building (1911)

This building on the corner of High Street and Albion Street in Hāwera was built in 1911 for the lawyers, Richard Dawson Welsh and Bernard McCarthy.

It was designed and built by local architect and builder, Ernest Arthur Pacey, at an estimated cost of £1,400.

The legal firm Welsh, McCarthy Barristers & Solicitors occupied the building for over 100 years. 

The building featured in Kelvin Day's "Of passing interest" series in 2012 and was also listed in the Hawera Town Centre Heritage Inventory (2003).

The Hāwera Stockade was erected on the same site about 1870 (a small plaque on the side of the building acknowledges this early history) and was used for a number of differing purposes until the stockade was demolished, probably sometime in the 1880s.