Mission Bay sits on three parcels of land comprising part of the Kohimarama block bought from the Crown in the early 1840s.

The school also known as St Andrew's College, was an Anglican institution set up to provide Melanesian boys with a Christian education.

[4] The stone buildings, designed by Reader Wood, date from 1858 and are built of scoria rock quarried on the volcanic island of Rangitoto.

In the winter of 1860 the mission buildings were lent to the Governor, Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, who organised the historic Kohimarama Conference.

In the last week Paora Tuarere (Ngati Whatua) proposed that the treaty should be endorsed by the conference as a "fuller ratification".

[7] The Kohimarama Conference is said to be unique, since it was the first time Māori had been given the opportunity to hold a rūnanga with Pākehā officials, which was a first step towards representation in the Government of New Zealand.

Mission Bay, was the second location for the Walsh Brothers New Zealand Flying School after moving from Ōrākei in November 1915.

[10] The waterfront Mission Bay Shopping Precinct has about 44 retailers, including a four-screen Reading Cinema, with on-street parking.

[11] Eastridge Shopping Centre, located on the upper side of the Mission Bay suburb, has 32 stores including a New World supermarket.

Trevor Moss Davis was director of the Auckland liquor firm Hancock and Company and died of a sudden heart attack in 1947 at the age of 45.

[13] The fountain was designed by architect George Tole and created by Richard Gross, it is constructed of Sicilian marble fluted to catch the light and decorated with three bronze sea monsters gushing water.

The memorial is a landmark on the city’s waterfront, regularly sending dancing jets of water as high as 12 m (40 ft) in the air and at night it features a beautiful light show.

The reserve is a pocket of native bush bustling with bird life during the day and serene with glow-worms in the gully near the main entrance at night.