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Dodds’ Building
Built: 1881 Address: 6 George Street, Port Chalmers Architect: David Ross Builder: Not identified Detail from photograph by D.A. De Maus taken in March 1900. Ref: Port Chalmers Maritime Museum. Port...
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The Perry residence
Built: 1930-1931 Address: 242 Stuart Street Architects: Mandeno & Fraser (Roy Fraser) Builders: W.H. Naylor Ltd This elegant Arts-and-Crafts-style house was designed by Roy Fraser of Mandeno &...
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Marine and Royal hotels
Built: 1880-1881 Address: 31 and 52 George Street, Port Chalmers Architect and builder: Gordon McKinnon The Portsider (former Marine Hotel) The former Royal Hotel, with 1867 stable buildings on the...
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Dunedin in Kodachrome
I love mid-century Kodachrome film – the colours are so vibrant that the images often seem to have a slight filter of fantasy applied to them. This view of George Street is one of my favourite...
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John Thomson’s building
Built: 1877 Address: 23-25 George Street, Port Chalmers Architect/designer: Not identified Builder: Not identified Sometimes I come across an honest wee building of little pretension, that I’m unable...
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Victoria Foundry (Barningham & Co.)
Built: 1883 Address: 434 George Street Architect/designer: Not identified Builder: Not identified The foundry as it appeared from George Street in the 1880s. Ref: Field and Hodgkins family photographs,...
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J.W. Swift & Co. building
Built: 1905 Address: 110 Bond Street Architects: Mason & Wales Builders: Not identified I often start out with the idea of writing a brief post but it never seems to turn out that way! It’s a short...
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Milburn Lime & Cement Co. head office
Built: 1937-1938 Address: 90 Crawford Street Architects: Salmond & Salmond Builders: W.H. Naylor Ltd View from Crawford Street, 2015 The Dunedin building industry enjoyed a brief period of...
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Matilda Ritchie’s building
Built: 1899-1900 Address: 10 George Street, Port Chalmers Architect: James Louis Salmond Builder: Not identified Photograph by D.A. De Maus showing the arrival in Port Chalmers of the Auckland men,...
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Sussex Hotel
Built: 1880 Address: 132-140 George Street Architect: Robert Forrest Builder: John Brennan There were eighty-nine licensed hotels in Dunedin in 1865, and that year the original Sussex Hotel was added...
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Whitcombe & Tombs Building
Built: 1915 Address: 168-174 Princes Street Architect: Edward Walter Walden (after Collins & Harman) Builders: Fletcher Bros An artist’s impression of the building. Originally published in the...
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Cavendish Chambers
Built: 1926-1927 Address: 211 High Street Architect: Eric Miller Builder: George H. McGregor High Street’s association with the medical profession dates back to at least the 1880s, when the...
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Sutton Brothers Store
Built: 1874-1875 Address: 21 George Street, Port Chalmers Architects: Mason & Wales Builders: Lambeth & Findlay, Kent & Brown When I’m in Port Chalmers I often admire the distinctive Tiger...
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Albyn House
Built: 1861 Address: 558 Great King Street Architect: Not identified Builder: Not identified Albyn House as it appeared around 1960. Hardwicke Knight photo. A magnificent Wellingtonia, thought to be...
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Chapman’s Terrace
Address: 235-241 Stuart Street Built: 1881-1882 Architect: David Ross Builder: Jesse Millington Terraced houses were rare in Victorian New Zealand despite being common the United Kingdom, where most...
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Ross & Glendining, Stafford Street
Built: 1866 / 1874 / 1919 Address: 8 Stafford Street Architects: John McGregor / Mason & Wales / W.H. Dunning Builders: McKay & Goodfellow / H.C. McCormack / Fletcher Bros The building in the...
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Ross & Glendining, High Street factory
Built: 1900-1901 (incorporating 1875 fabric) Address: 167 High Street Architect/Designer: Charles Lomax Builders: Day labour (under Lomax) An image from ‘Beautiful Dunedin’ (1906), taken when the...
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Port Chalmers Police Station
Built: 1939-1940 Address: 35 George Street, Port Chalmers Architects: Public Works Department (under John T. Mair) Builder: Robert Mitchell Cabinet approved a grant to build a new police station at...
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Hotel Central
Built: 1873 Address: 90-108 Princes Street Architects: Mason & Wales Builders: Wood & Steinau The buildings as they appeared c.1907. Ref: Collection of Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Box 57...
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Dreaver’s Buildings
Built: 1878-1879 Address: 149-165 George Street Designer: William Grasby Builders: Finck & Grasby From the 1870s to the 1950s, the enterprising Dreaver family made George Street their place of...
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