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Lost Dunedin #1: Eden Bank House
Address: 9 Regent Road Built: 1863 and 1874 Architect: Additions by David Ross (1828-1908) Builders: Not known Demolished circa 1966 We’re lucky to have so many historic buildings in Dunedin but a lot...
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Joseph Lowe Shaw, architect
Born: Dublin, Ireland, c.1821 Died: Dunedin, 23 September 1906 521 George Street (Wilson residence) J.L. Shaw has something of a one-hit-wonder status in Dunedin, where he is almost only known as the...
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Moray Terrace (Gladstone House)
Built: 1880-1881 Address: 57-65 Moray Place Architect: T.B. Cameron (c.1837-1894) Builders: Not known This terrace draws attention to its history with the date ’1880′ conspicuously displayed below a...
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Lost Dunedin #2: Appin
Built: 1881-1882 Address: 311 Leith Street Architect: T.B. Cameron (c.1837-1894) Builder: Norman Wood (c.1840-1907) Demolished 1965-1966 This house stood for over eighty years near the corner of Leith...
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Sweeting’s
Built: 1907-1908 Address: 49-51 Stuart Street Architects: Walden & Barton Builder: Joseph Eli White (1853-1917) This building is a wee gem – I love its honest, ungentrified Edwardian appearance and...
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St Kilda Hotel
Built: 1898-1899 Address: 2 Prince Albert Road Architect: Robert Forrest (c.1832-1919) Builder: Not known The license for the original St Kilda Hotel on the corner of Prince Albert and Bay View roads...
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Batchelor’s Building
Built: 1902-1903 Address: 145-155 Stuart Street Architect: James Louis Salmond (1868-1950) Builder: Daniel William Woods (c.1837-1923) Dr Ferdinand Campion Batchelor (1850-1915) arrived in Dunedin in...
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Manchester Unity Chambers
Built: 1882-1883 / 1932-1933 Address: 134-142 Stuart Street Architects Edmund Roach / Mandeno & Fraser Builders: Francis Wilkinson / Alfred Edward Silver The story of this building begins in the...
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Kaiapoi Building
Built: 1915-1917 Address: 17 Moray Place Architects: Salmond & Vanes (James Louis Salmond) Builder: Joseph Eli White Few visitors to Dunedin would walk past the Kaiapoi Building without noticing...
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David Ross FRIBA, architect
Baptised: Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 11 July 1828 Died: Auckland, New Zealand, 6 October 1908 David Ross! Where to begin…? He’s a particular favourite of mine and the architect I’ve spent the...
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May’s confectionery works
Built: 1900 Address: 249 Cumberland Street Architect: [?] George William Gough (c.1865-1936) Builder: Not known This building dates from the last year of the nineteenth century. It has one particularly...
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Gleeson’s Terrace
Built: 1903-1904 Address: 618-626 Great King Street Architect: Percy William Laing (1859-1915) Builders: Peter Campbell and/or Henry Charles Foster This terrace is one of the most unusual and...
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Lost Dunedin #3: Oriental Hotel
Built: 1863 Address: 152 Princes Street Architect: [?] William Henry Clayton (1823-1877) Builder: Not identified Demolished 1887 Photo: D.L. Mundy, [1864]. Toitū / Otago Settlers Museum.The Oriental...
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McCarthy’s Buildings
Built: 1907 Address: Cr Stuart and Castle streets Architect: Walden & Barton Builders: G. Simpson & Co. I’ve posted about a few Lower Stuart Street buildings now and there’s a reason why many...
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Farley’s Buildings
Built: 1863 Address: 118-146 Princes Street Architect: Charles G. Smith Builder: Not identified These buildings may be scruffy and disfigured, but they’re among the richest sites of social and cultural...
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Temperance Hall (The Choral Hall)
Built: 1873-1874 Address: 21-27 Moray Place Architect: Robert Forrest Builder: James Gore An early lithograph of the Temperance Hall (Toitū / Otago Settlers Museum) This post continues the theme of...
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Dresden Building (Capitol Building)
Built: 1912-1913 Address: 67-69 Princes Street Architects: Salmond & Vanes Builder: G. Lawrence & Sons At the end of the nineteenth century there were two big music firms in New Zealand:...
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Royal Albert Hotel
Built: 1880 / 1939 Address: 387 George Street Architects: Louis Boldini / Stone & Sturmer Builders: Norman Wood / D.P. Murphy A Labour Day procession makes its way south along George Street, some...
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The Rio Grande
Built: 1927-1928 Address: 73 Princes Street Architects: David Gourlay Mowat Builders: Lawrence & Sons This wee gem often catches my eye. The Rio Grande was the restaurant of Dimitrios Pagonis...
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Louis Boldini, architect
Born: Ferrara, Italy, 9 April 1832 Died: Maldon, Victoria, Australia, 12 October 1908 While researching the Dunedin musician Raffaello Squarise ten years ago, I became intrigued by this other Italian...
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