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Massey Memorial |
| Mt Crawford - Wellington |
| Marble monument to a New Zealand Prime Minister, sited on a headland giving broad views of Wellington city and harbour. Gummer and Ford together with Samuel Hurst Seager as consulting architect were t... |
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Frank Sargeson's Bach |
| Takapuna - Auckland |
| Frank Sargeson lived in this fibrolite bach from 1931 to 1982. He also wrote most of his work here and entertained literary friends. A famous live-in guest was Janet Frame.
The key is available from ... |
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Gumdiggers Park |
| Awanui - Northland |
| Gumdiggers Park is an authentic Kauri Gum digging site over 100 years old.
Maori, European & Dalmatian people formed this now forgotten gum digging culture and provided the basis for one of the bigg... |
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Old Wooden Government Building |
| Thorndon - Wellington |
| This very wooden building featuring extensive use of Kauri timber was once the home of government in New Zealand. It now houses the Victoria University Law School but is open for public viewing on a s... |
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Ngaio Marsh House |
| Cashmere - Canterbury |
| Home of the late Dame Ngaio Marsh (1895-1982), an eminent producer of Shakepeare's plays and a world-renowned crime fiction writer. Her house can be viewed by appointment except on Mondays Phone (03) ... |
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Lyttelton Timeball Station |
| Lyttelton - Canterbury |
| Timeballs, to ensure a ship's chronometer was accurate, were once a feature of many ports. This is the only survivor in New Zealand. As befitted its importance at the time (1876), the building was des... |
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Patrick Street Houses |
| Petone - Wellington |
| In 1905 the Liberal Government, led by Premier Richard John Seddon, undertook to provide low cost but quality housing to working families. The first state houses under the Worker's Dwelling Act 1905, ... |
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Waitangi |
| Waitangi - Northland |
| The Treaty of Waitangi was signed here in 1840 in a magnificent setting. Since 1934 there has been an annual commemoration of signing of the Treaty (Te Tiriti o Waitangi) here. Often in latter years t... |
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Opotiki Information Centre |
| Opotiki - Bay Of Plenty |
| The Information centre includes a Department of Conservation (DOC) office. A good place to visit if you are wanting to travel the road around East Cape to Gisborne (330 km on SH 35). Alternatively, an... |
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Timaru Visitor Information Centre |
| Timaru - Canterbury |
| The Information Centre is in the historic Landing Services Building.
Timaru (population 30,000) is built around an artificial harbour. It acts as the commercial centre for the surrounding farming ... |
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Ruapekapeka |
| Towai - Northland |
| The first major clash of arms between Maori and Pakeha occurred in the 1840s. The War in the North had its origins in the discontent of Hone Heke, Kawiti and other Maori leaders with the reduction of ... |
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Wahine Memorial (Churchill Park) |
| Seatoun - Wellington |
| A children's playground on the harbour's edge doubles as a commemorative park. On the 10 April 1968 the inter-island ferry, Wahine, foundered near here with the loss of 51 lives.
To get here by pub... |
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Ataturk Memorial |
| Breaker Bay - Wellington |
| Kemal Ataturk, the first president of modern Turkey, drew up the defence plans for the Gallipoli Peninsula, the scene of the military campaign which is regarded as a defining event in New Zealand's hi... |
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Thorndon |
| Thorndon - Wellington |
| Wellington's earliest suburb, still with numerous examples of 19th century architecture and adjacent to the Government precinct. Take a walk among its streets. |
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New Zealand Film Archive |
| Te Aro - Wellington |
| Film is becoming recognised as a significant New Zealand art form. The Archive's extensive collection of predominantly New Zealand video and film dates from 1895 to the present day. At the new "mediap... |
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Academy Galleries |
| Wellington - Wellington |
| The showplace of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, with a year-round programme of exhibitions that includes new works from around New Zealand, work by international artists and special interest ex... |
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Dunedin Prison |
| Dunedin - Otago |
| Is this building in the Queen Anne Style? John Campbell, Government Architect of the day, was clearly influenced by Norman Shaw's New Scotland Yard. The building was designed in 1896 and is exquisitel... |
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Colonial Cottage Museum |
| Mt Cook - Wellington |
| Central Wellington's oldest surviving building provides an opportunity to see how early settlers coped with the demands of colonial living. This cottage in a colonial Georgian style was built about 18... |
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Old St Pauls Church |
| Thorndon - Wellington |
| A notable example of timber-construction Gothic Revival by architect Frederick Thatcher, Old St Pauls dates from 1866 and was Wellington's Anglican cathedral church before the new cathedral in Moleswo... |
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National Library |
| Thorndon - Wellington |
| A severe concrete facade modeled on that of the Boston City Hall houses the National Library and the Alexander Turnbull collection: one of the world's most important sources of research material on th... |
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National Archives |
| Thorndon - Wellington |
| The National Archives have several exhibition galleries. On permanent display in the Constitution Room is the Treaty of Waitangi and a facsimile of the first sheet of the Women's Suffrage Petition. Ot... |
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St Michael and All Angels |
| Christchurch - Canterbury |
| High Victorian Gothic expressed in timber. Built in 1872, St Michael and All Angels is the mother church of Canterbury. The expressive belltower designed by Mountfort dates from 1861. |
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First Church, Dunedin |
| Dunedin - Otago |
| The result of a design competition in 1861 won by R A Lawson, a Scot living in Melbourne, First Church is a soaring example of Decorated Gothic style. Unlike many New Zealand churches of its era, it i... |
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Larnach Castle |
| Pukehiki - Otago |
| Not a real castle but a great house in a rural setting, built for a wealthy 19th century importer and politician, William Larnach, who took his life in Parliament House in 1898. Larnach Castle was bui... |
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Otahuna Lodge |
| Taitapu - Canterbury |
| Otahuna was designed and built for Sir Robert Heaton Rhodes (1861-1956), a prominent Canterbury lawyer, runholder and politician.
In 1891 he commissioned Christchurch architect Frederick Strouts (1... |
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Public Trust Building |
| Wellington - Wellington |
| The Public Trust was established in 1872 to provide an honest agency for administering wills. This exuberant Edwardian baroque building was built in 1909. It was designed by the government architect, ... |
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Former Customs House |
| Timaru - Canterbury |
| Now a steak restaurant, this classic revival building adds to our understanding of the aspirations of a town with one of New Zealand's few artificial harbours. It dates from 1902.
The design was by... |
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Parihaka Pa |
| Pungarehu - Taranaki |
| After the Taranaki Wars of the 1860s, Parihaka became a centre of Maori resistance to further loss of their land. Te Whiti and Tohu promoted civil disobedience to achieve this aim. To quell the resist... |
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Sign of the Takahe |
| Cashmere Hills - Canterbury |
| A strange gothic style folly, built between 1918 and 1934 by the visionary Harry Ell. Completed after his death by the Christchurch City Council in 1949, it is now used as a restaurant.
To get her... |
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Matakohe Kauri Museum |
| Matakohe - Northland |
| One of the country’s finest regional museums, the Matakohe Museum tells the story of the kauri timber and gum industries, once so important in the Northland economy. Other aspects of the district’s pi... |
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Turnbull House |
| Wellington - Wellington |
| This Victorian Tudor brick house was built by Alexander Turnbull (1868-1918) to house his library.
The Turnbull collection is now housed in the National Library in Molseworth Street and forms the ... |
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Treaty House, Waitangi |
| Waitangi - Northland |
| Originally known as the 'Residency', the Treaty House was built in 1834 for James Busby, and is one of New Zealand's oldest surviving buildings.
The frame of the house was shipped from Sydney, Aust... |
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