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Architecture writer John Walsh. Photo: Supplied <\/p>\nTen questions with John Walsh, author of\u00a0\u014ctepoti Dunedin Architecture.<\/p>\n
Q1: Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and now Dunedin: this series of architecture walking\u00a0guides has built up a real head of steam and is working hard to acquaint us with the buildings\u00a0we walk by every day as we go about our lives. Dunedin is the biggest yet. How so?<\/p>\n
Perhaps I\u2019ve become better at writing these guides? It helps that the publisher is willing to\u00a0allow them more pages. The real reason is that Dunedin\u2019s particular history has bequeathed\u00a0the city an extraordinary collection of Victorian, Edwardian and Modern-era buildings. For a\u00a0small city, Dunedin has an impressive trove of architectural stories.<\/p>\n
Q2: You were living in Dunedin when this project began. That must have been a big help.<\/p>\n
The books are designed as walking guides, so it was enormously helpful to be living in\u00a0Dunedin and walking its streets every day. You can only really make sense of a city by walking\u00a0around it, noting the details of buildings\u00a0and seeing how they fit in to their streetscapes.<\/p>\n
Q3: You were still writing and researching after you moved back to Auckland. Did you rather\u00a0feel that your life was still in the south?<\/p>\n
A little bit, and not just in the south, but in Dunedin in the late \u00a019th and early \u00a020th centuries \u2014 the decades of the city\u2019s Golden Age, when many of its most significant buildings\u00a0were constructed. It\u2019s easy to fall down the historical rabbit holes of that proud and purposeful\u00a0little colonial city.<\/p>\n
Q4: The city\u2019s rich resource of architecture is the work of relatively small group of architects.\u00a0Can you tell us about some of them, and their standout buildings?<\/p>\n
There\u2019s that eminent Victorian, Robert Lawson, who designed the Gothic Revival First\u00a0Church, Knox Church, Otago Boys High School and, probably, Larnach\u2019s Castle. Francis Petre\u00a0designed St Joseph\u2019s Cathedral and other churches, also in the Gothic style, and Classical\u00a0commercial buildings. On either side of the first world war, Edmund Anscombe designed\u00a0many of the buildings that make the University of Otago campus such a coherent architectural\u00a0site. Ted McCoy was the outstanding architect of the second half of the 20th\u00a0century, when\u00a0he designed concrete Modernist buildings such as the graceful Hocken [now Richardson] Building at\u00a0the university. Then there are the architects who were one-hit wonders, in Dunedin\u00a0at least\u00a0\u2014 Maxwell Bury, who designed the university clock tower building; George Troup, architect\u00a0of the ornate railway station; and Sir Ernest George, an\u00a0eminent\u00a0English\u00a0architect\u00a0who\u00a0designed Olveston, the grand Edwardian family home that\u2019s now a house museum.<\/p>\n
Q5: You\u2019ve included quite number of churches. Favourites?<\/p>\n
First Church and the cathedrals are, intentionally, impressive, but at a homelier level I like\u00a0All Saints, with its warm, weathered-brick face, and St Mary Star of the Sea, Francis Petre\u2019s\u00a0small Gothic church in Port Chalmers. It has wonderful stations of the cross painted by Joanna\u00a0Margaret Paul.<\/p>\n
Architecture writer John Walsh. Photo: Supplied <\/p>\n
Q6: The old warehouse district has been\u00a0revitalised.\u00a0What are the key buildings in that\u00a0precinct?<\/p>\n
The warehouse district is a clear case of a whole being greater than the sum of its parts. The\u00a0buildings all have their own stories, but it\u2019s taken together that they make an impact. That said,\u00a0two warehouse buildings that stand out are the Stavely Building (1879) with its giant clamshell\u00a0roof ornament, on Jetty St, and\u00a0further down the same street, the Donald Reid Building\u00a0(1885), which has been excellently restored.<\/p>\n
Q7: And it\u2019s not all Victorian and Edwardian piles. There\u2019s some great work from the mid\u00a020th century. What are standouts for you?<\/p>\n
Two buildings by Mandeno & Fraser \u2014 the Dunedin Fire Station (1931) and Speight\u2019s\u00a0Brewery (1939), both workaday buildings, but very considered. Ted McCoy\u2019s Hocken Building (1979) on the University of Otago campus is one of the great works of New\u00a0Zealand Brutalism. Holy Name Church (1974) on Great King St has a surprisingly graceful\u00a0interior.<\/p>\n
Q8: Although there\u2019s perhaps less new building activity than in the other main centres, there\u00a0have been new buildings. What\u2019s one of the most interesting?<\/p>\n
The University of Otago\u2019s Te Rangih\u012broa (2024), which is named for distinguished alumnus\u00a0Sir\u00a0Peter Buck, is the university\u2019s first purpose-built residential college in 50 years. The Jasmax\u00a0building\u2019s design, most obviously the tukutuku facade panels, testifies to the involvement of Sir Peter Buck\u2019s iwi, Ng\u0101ti Mutunga and K\u0101i Tahu.<\/p>\n
Q9: Favourite building overall?<\/p>\n
The South City Substation (1972), designed by Allingham, Harrison & Partners. It\u2019s such a gem\u00a0\u2014 an elegant little Modernist insertion in a block of heritage buildings. It\u2019s so much better than\u00a0it might have been and shows what\u2019s possible if good architecture is not just dismissed as a \u201cnice\u00a0to have\u201d.<\/p>\n
Q10: Dunedin does a streetscape so well, doesn\u2019t it. Where\u2019s a place to stand and look that\u00a0delivers a lot to an admirer of its buildings?<\/p>\n
Facing the green at Queens Garden there\u2019s a strong group of ornate 1880s commercial\u00a0buildings \u2014 The Terminus Hotel, and the former Equitable Insurance Association Building and\u00a0New Zealand Insurance Company. Now that George St has received a makeover, the\u00a0architecture of the Victorian and Edwardian shops on the block between Hanover and\u00a0Frederick Sts can be better appreciated. The quad at the rear of the university clock tower building is a great space. And George St\u00a0in Port Chalmers is one long, diverting\u00a0streetscape.\u00a0Dunedin is a wonderful city with a strong built character. It\u2019s fortunate that so many buildings\u00a0were made of local stone and, from an architectural point of view, that there haven\u2019t been\u00a0compelling reasons to pull them down.<\/p>\n
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Route: City south
Princes St\u00a0and the warehouse district
Circa 3km <\/p>\n
The architecture on this route is testament to Dunedin\u2019s Golden Age \u2014 the period when the city was the commercial capital of New Zealand. This former glory is evident in Princes St\u2019s ornate\u00a0banks and hotels, and the extraordinary collection of warehouses built by Dunedin\u2019s pioneering capitalist enterprises \u2014 stock and\u00a0station agencies, insurance companies, manufacturers, importers, the Union Steam Ship Company. Over the last dozen years, many\u00a0of these buildings have been rehabilitated and now house the\u00a0professional firms, small businesses, cafes and apartments that\u00a0are revitalising the \u201cWarehouse Precinct\u201d centred on Vogel St.<\/p>\n
Buildings on the route memorialise movements (the Salvation\u00a0Army and the Volunteer Corps), men (William Cargill and the war dead) and milestones (the conquest of Bell Hill and Dunedin\u2019s first\u00a0\u201cskyscraper\u201d). The Chinese community declare their civic presence with Lan Yuan Garden and K\u0101i Tahu signal their mana whenua\u00a0status with the Queens Gardens building, \u014ctepoti.<\/p>\n
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\u014ctepoti was commissioned by the property arm of K\u0101i Tahu. Photo: Graham Warman <\/p>\n
\u014ctepoti
9 Queens Gardens and Dowling St
Warren and Mahoney with Aukaha, 2025
Contractor: Naylor Love<\/p>\n
\u014ctepoti, the new building commissioned by the property arm of K\u0101i Tahu in collaboration with the Accident Compensation Corporation, is significant in its location, scale and provenance.<\/p>\n
Occupying the mid-section of a near-triangular block that apexes\u00a0at the Imperial Buildings, the building fronts Queens Gardens and also faces Dowling St\u00a0in the old area\u00a0still known as The Exchange. Construction of the building was accompanied by an archaeological excavation of its site, which for\u00a0half a century from 1969 stood empty and was used as a carpark.<\/p>\n
The building is not huge \u2014 four storeys high on its Queens\u00a0Gardens elevation and 8000sq\u2009m in area, sufficient\u00a0for 800 staff \u2014 but its size is notable in a city in which a big new\u00a0building happens, at best, once a year.<\/p>\n
The building is important, too, as a signifier of K\u0101i\u00a0Tahu\u00a0influence in the city, and especially in a place of particular historical\u00a0resonance. The building\u2019s location is close to a former waka\u00a0landing near the mouth of Toit\u016b stream; produce and fish were\u00a0traded there in the early days of the Dunedin settlement. The land had been promised to local M\u0101ori as a reserve, but settlers were\u00a0soon building on it. More than 150 years later, K\u0101i Tahu are back in the CBD, and proclaiming their presence in the architecture\u00a0of their new building, just as Dunedin\u2019s colonists once did in\u00a0the flamboyant facades of their \u201cboom style\u201d hotels, banks and\u00a0mercantile headquarters.<\/p>\n
\u014ctepoti takes its name from the form of Otago Harbour at its southern end, a rectangular shape akin to that of a poti, a flax basket used for food gathering and transportation. (\u014ctepoti is,\u00a0of course, also the te reo name for Dunedin at large.) K\u0101i Tahu organisation Aukaha, its design consultancy Mana Ahurea,\u00a0K\u0101i Tahu researcher Megan P\u014dtiki and K\u0101i Tahu artist Kirsten Parkinson worked with Warren and Mahoney to realise the flax\u00a0basket trope in \u014ctepoti\u2019s facade of steel fins and fritted glass.<\/p>\n
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Architect Patrick Young Wales gave the Imperial Buildings an eclectic look. Photo: Patrick Reynolds <\/p>\n
Imperial Buildings
1 Dowling St\u00a0and High St\u00a0(Queens Gardens)
Mason & Wales, 1907
Contractor: Charles Fleming McDonald<\/p>\n
The form of the Imperial Buildings \u2014 a single structure\u00a0despite its plural name \u2014 follows the shape of its site, a\u00a0triangle with its apex at the corner of Dowling and High Sts (also confusingly called Queens Gardens). The building\u2019s\u00a0visibility, already pronounced thanks to its two street facades, is enhanced by its adjacency to Queens Gardens, the green sward\u00a0circumscribed by State Highway 1. Because the building can\u2019t be missed, it\u2019s easy to take for granted. It deserves a closer look for its wedginess and New York tenement-style metal fire escapes, and the intricacy of its polychromatic brickwork, which features\u00a0dark tuck pointing between courses of paler-hued bricks\u00a0(the building\u2019s bricks were machine-pressed by Hoffman\u2019s Brickworks\u00a0in Melbourne.)<\/p>\n
The building was designed by Mason & Wales, which in the\u00a0early 1900s was led by Percy (Patrick) Young Wales (1864-1939), son of the firm\u2019s co-founder Nathaniel Wales. Clubbable Percy\u00a0Wales was a shooter, footballer, lacrosse and billiards player; member of the Fernhill, Otago and Dunedin Jockey Clubs; a Freemason; president of the Institute of Architects; and father of four sons, one of whom was to succeed him as director of Mason & Wales. He gave the Imperial Buildings an eclectic styling, part Queen Anne Revival and part, in the contemporary description of the Otago Daily Times, \u201cearly English\u201d. This Jacobethan quality was\u00a0diluted in 1927 when the building\u2019s rooftop pinnacles were\u00a0sacrificed for the fifth-floor addition. Contractor Charles Fleming McDonald (1869-1922) was a ferro-concrete construction specialist. The Otago Daily Times applauded his use in the\u00a0Imperial Buildings of reinforced concrete, seeing it as a means \u201cto mitigate the regret at the destruction of the forests\u201d. The building\u00a0was commissioned and briefly owned by tailors James and Henry Stokes. Tenants over the years have included dealer galleries and, in the 1960s and 1970s, according to Heritage New Zealand, the\u00a0gay-friendly Sirocco Coffee Lounge.<\/p>\n
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The opulent facade of Wains Hotel. Photo: Patrick Reynolds <\/p>\n
Wains Hotel (now Fable)
310 Princes St\u00a0and Manse St
Mason, Wales & Stevenson, 1879
Contractor: Finck and Grasby<\/p>\n
In the later \u00a019th century, a tendency to exuberant\u00a0eclecticism was especially pronounced in the architecture of\u00a0suddenly wealthy colonial cities such as Melbourne and Dunedin.<\/p>\n
Practising in a boom time, contemporary architects adopted what\u00a0Australian architectural historians AnnMarie Brennan and Philip Goad call a \u201cboom style\u201d. Like guests invited to a fancy dress\u00a0party, architects rummaged through their wardrobes \u2014 European architecture\u2019s back catalogue \u2014 and came up with performative\u00a0responses to their clients\u2019 exhibitionist demands.<\/p>\n
Wains Hotel is one of the finest survivors of Dunedin\u2019s boom time. Designed by Mason, Wales & Stevenson when the practice was led by Nathaniel Wales (1832-1903) and Thomas Stevenson,\u00a0the building was completed in 1879 on a site near the wharves and railway station. The building was commissioned by London-born\u00a0Job Wain (1836-1922), who had arrived in Dunedin in 1851. After a sojourn on the Victorian goldfields, Wain became so successful as\u00a0a Dunedin hotelier and businessman that, according to his Otago Daily Times obituary, he spent much of the 1880s travelling with\u00a0his wife, Catherine, before eventually retiring to a gentleman\u2019s life on \u201ca finely situated block of land in Opoho\u201d, above Dunedin city.<\/p>\n
Wains Hotel is certainly picturesque, the opulence of its\u00a0fa\u00e7ade enhanced by its current colour treatment. Above a cellar,\u00a0the hotel\u2019s five floors accommodated street-level shops, first floor public areas, two floors of guest rooms and attic staff\u00a0rooms. The Italianate\u00a0composition includes arches on columns\u00a0with foliated capitals and carved spandrels, a recessed central\u00a0balcony surmounted by a carved eagle, oriels, cornices, swags,\u00a0finials\u00a0and pediment bearing Job Wain\u2019s monogram. And,\u00a0most spectacularly, two pairs of grotesques: a mermaid with,\u00a0presumably, Neptune, and a couple of horned figures, muscular\u00a0and leering and demanding to know, \u00a0\u201cqui va la?\u201d. (\u201cWho goes there?\u201d) The ebullient fa\u00e7ade ornamentation is the work of carver\u00a0George Munro. Wains Hotel was refurbished in 2018.<\/p>\n
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Cumberland & Vogel St Warehouses (top photo)
Cumberland St\u00a0between Queens Gardens and Water St
R. A. Lawson, Robert Forrest, W. H. Dunning, J. A.\u00a0Burnside,\u00a01880-1929<\/p>\n
Given the prevalence of ecclesiastical architecture in Dunedin, there\u2019s a strong case to be made for the church as the city\u2019s\u00a0defining building type. But there\u2019s another claimant to the title.<\/p>\n
In many ways, the warehouse was the quintessential building of\u00a0colonial Dunedin. No surprise, really. Colonies depend on imported goods, which must be stored before they can be distributed. Also,\u00a0like most colonies, Dunedin developed around a port that was a funnel for frontier settlement. Quite quickly, that port was also\u00a0handling exports: grain and wool from the Otago hinterland, stored near the wharves before being stowed on ships. Warehouses, then,\u00a0were integral to Dunedin\u2019s nascent economy, and the gold rush soon generated many more of them. On the back of the boom,\u00a0local manufacturing developed. More warehouses.<\/p>\n
The proliferation of warehouses was expressed demographically\u00a0in the rise of Dunedin\u2019s mercantile class. The wealthier merchants of Victorian Dunedin occupied similar economic and social space\u00a0as the merchants of 14th\u00a0century Venice. Their trading activities segued naturally into the related fields of shipping, money-lending and insurance. They sponsored charitable\u00a0institutions, sought public office and bonded in fraternal societies. They built big houses on the city\u2019s commanding heights.<\/p>\n
Their warehouses were down below, on the reclaimed tidal\u00a0flat. Right from the start of the Dunedin colony, it was envisaged\u00a0that harbour reclamation would be necessary for the settlement\u2019s viability. K. C. McDonald, the official historian of the Dunedin\u00a0centenary, noted that when New Zealand Company surveyor Charles Kettle mapped out the town in 1846-47 \u201che cheerfully\u00a0drew Lower High Street and part of Princes Street South through blue water\u201d. In the early 1860s, more than 400 acres below high-water mark were included within the city of Dunedin.<\/p>\n
Rock and spoil from excavated Bell Hill were deposited on\u00a0the foreshore. Cue the driving of piles through silt and fill, the\u00a0foundations for substantial storehouses that were duly celebrated in the \u201ccity improvements\u201d columns of the local press but also appraised with a spirit-level gaze. The risks of reclamation were well\u00a0recognised and there was always some nervousness about building in the littoral mud.<\/p>\n
The growth of Dunedin\u2019s warehouse district began in the 1870s and continued for several decades. Eventually, the district\u00a0comprised around 20 blocks in the area below Princes St\u00a0between Queens Gardens and Kensington Oval to the south, and on the harbour side of Cumberland St\u00a0to the east. Historian Alex Trapeznik has calculated that at the precinct\u2019s greatest\u00a0extent, early in the \u00a020th century, it was populated by 118\u00a0warehouses, each employing up to 30 workers. For reasons\u00a0particular to Dunedin\u2019s \u00a020th-century development or, rather, lack of it, scores of Victorian and Edwardian warehouses have survived. This in itself makes Dunedin\u2019s built heritage unusual. What makes it nationally unique is that the warehouses, in many\u00a0cases, have survived not as solitary remnants, but rather as joined-up components of a coherent streetscape. Over time, the\u00a0old warehouses may have lost much of their ornament, but they have kept the forthright forms of their functional utility.<\/p>\n
An excellent example of a Dunedin warehouse streetscape,\u00a0and of the interconnectedness of the city\u2019s businesses, is the\u00a0block of three-storey buildings on Cumberland St between Water St\u00a0and Queens Gardens (all the buildings also\u00a0face Vogel St). In the\u00a0photograph above, which also includes\u00a0the NMA Building, the Union Steam Ship Co. Building\u00a0and the New Zealand Express Co. Building, the buildings are, from left (south): Vogel House\u00a0(R. A. Lawson, 1886), originally Remshardt & Co.\u2019s skin and wool store; Milne Bremner Building (Robert Forrest, 1888),\u00a0commissioned by trading company Hogg, Howison, Nicol & Co.,\u00a0then let to the NMA and subsequently occupied by Remshardt & Co., and later by wholesale merchant Milne Bremner; Hogg,\u00a0Howison, Nicol & Co.\u2019s wool and grain store (Robert Forrest, 1882),\u00a0owned from 1903 to 1938 by ironmonger and hardware merchant\u00a0Paterson & Barr; Paterson & Barr\u2019s \u201cnew\u201d building (William Henry Dunning, 1929); and Philps Railway Central Terminus Hotel (J. A. Burnside, 1880).<\/p>\n
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The South City Substation is a Modernist delight. Photo: Patrick Reynolds <\/p>\n
South City Substation
17 Crawford St\u00a0and 22 Vogel St
Allingham, Harrison & Partners, 1972
Contractor: Downer & Co.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s ironic that one of the best buildings in a city stuffed with Gothic-style churches, Classically ordered banks and\u00a0Renaissance-inspired warehouses is a modest piece of energy\u00a0infrastructure. As a work of architecture, Dunedin\u2019s South City Substation is surprisingly good. Surprise, in this case, is testament not just to a building\u2019s quality, but also to the poverty of our expectations. As precedents suggest, this little building didn\u2019t have to be this good; it could have been just another mundane New Zealand utilities building. But in this case, some people \u2014 client, architect, builder \u2014 cared, and so the building stands as a riposte to the perennial characterisation of design ambition, in the public realm, at least, as effete indulgence. \u201cNice to have\u201d is the usual clich\u00e9, a phrase that drips with disdain.<\/p>\n
The substation, which \u201ctransforms\u201d high-voltage power from the electricity grid into a lower voltage suitable for commercial and domestic distribution, was commissioned by the Dunedin City Council\u2019s electricity department. It was designed by the practice led by John Allingham (1910-1991), a significant Dunedin Modernist architect, and John Harrison (1935-); Robert Asplin (1941-2022) seems to have been the building\u2019s design architect.<\/p>\n
The substation faces both Crawford and Vogel Sts and the two elevations have a near-identical treatment. Elegantly curved brick walls flank a see-through mesh gate \u2014 the Crawford St\u00a0side also has a small arched doorway \u2014 under an upper-level fa\u00e7ade of patterned pre-cast concrete. Unseen from the street, but visible in aerial photographs, are half a dozen brick shells that\u00a0cup rooftop radiators as a noise-reduction measure\u00a0(even the bits of this building that are out of sight were carefully designed). The substation is now part of the network of Auroa Energy, successor to the council\u2019s electricity department and a company that remains in municipal ownership. The building\u2019s southern neighbour, originally the office of the Union Assurance Company (Mason & Wales, 1963), is also a Modernist delight \u2014 note the elegant corner piloti.<\/p>\n
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The seven-storey New Zealand Express Company building was Dunedin’s first skyscraper. Photo: Patrick Reynolds <\/p>\n
New Zealand Express Company Building (former)
7 Bond St\u00a0and Crawford St
S. & A. Luttrell, 1910
Contractor: Charles Fleming McDonald<\/p>\n
Brash Aussies with Yankee ways gatecrash local architecture party: that\u2019d be a tabloid take on one of Dunedin\u2019s most\u00a0significant buildings, the \u201cskyscraper\u201d \u2014 the city\u2019s first \u2014 constructed in 1908-1910 for the New Zealand Express Company,\u00a0a nationwide road carrier. The project\u2019s progress was closely observed. There was much to see: the laying of a concrete raft\u00a0foundation to provide a stable base on reclaimed land, the pouring of steel-reinforced concrete walls, the placing of pre-cast concrete\u00a0slab floors and the equally novel use of electric hoists and\u00a0concrete mixers. \u201cAll around was bustle and activity,\u201d\u00a0reported the\u00a0Otago Witness in April 1909. \u201cMachines hissed and shrieked, men\u00a0hurried about, ordering and controlling.\u201d<\/p>\n
Modernity had arrived in Dunedin, in the form of the neo Classical skyscraper as pioneered in late 19th\u00a0century\u00a0Chicago by architecture firms such as Adler and Sullivan, and Burnham and Root. The New Zealand Express Company Building\u2019s\u00a0seven storeys \u2014 the sky was more easily scraped in the Edwardian era \u2014 ascend in classical columnar order: two-storey base, four-storey arcaded shaft of rather Victorian oriels, one-storey cornice.\u00a0Slender columns (colonnettes) clustered like fistfuls of cigarettes\u00a0frame the windows and impart verticality to the facade, which has the same treatment on the Bond and Crawford St elevations.<\/p>\n
The building, like the seven-storey New Zealand Express\u00a0Company Building (1907) in Christchurch, was designed by the\u00a0Luttrell brothers, Alfred Edgar (1865\u20131924) and Edward Sydney\u00a0(1872\u20131932). The Luttrells had practised together in Tasmania\u00a0before moving in 1902 to more economically buoyant\u00a0Christchurch.\u00a0Alfred was the lead designer, younger brother Sydney (or \u201cSidney\u201d), energetic and gregarious \u2014 \u201cLuttrell the Limit\u201d was his nickname \u2014 and co-owner of the winning horse in the 1916 Melbourne Cup, dealt\u00a0with the business side of the practice.<\/p>\n
Also to be seen on this route:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Cenotaph, Queens Gardens.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Otago Daily Times and Otago Witness\u00a0building (former), 2-4 Dowling St, Queens Gardens and Burlington St.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Garrison Hall, 8 Dowling St and Burlington St.<\/p>\n
\u2022 New Zealand Clothing Company building (former), 20 Dowling St.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Dowling St steps, Dowling St at Princes St.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Salvation Army Fortress (former), 37 Dowling St.<\/p>\n
\u2022 National Bank of New Zealand (former), 193 Princes St.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Bank of New Zealand (former), 205 Princes St.<\/p>\n
\u2022 New Zealand Clothing Company warehouse (former), 126 Rattray St.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Cargill Monument, Princes St at Rattray St.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Chief Post Office (former), 283 Princes St and Water St.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Union Bank of Australia (former), 319 Princes St and Liverpool St.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Sievwright and Stout building, 377 Princes St.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Empire Hotel, 396 Princes St.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Stavely building, 5 Jetty St and Bond St.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Evening Star building (former), 49 Bond St and 54 Crawford St.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Guardian Royal Exchange building, 7-9 Liverpool St and Bond and Crawford Sts.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Otago Education Board offices (former), 33 Jetty St and Crawford St (SH1).<\/p>\n
\u2022 Donald Reid building, 43 Jetty St and Vogel St.<\/p>\n
\u2022 NMA building (ex-Union Steam Ship Co building), 49 Water St and Cumberland and Vogel Sts.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Union Steam Ship Co building (ex-NMA building), 38 Water St and Vogel St.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Trustees Executors & Agency building, 24 Water St and Bond and Crawford Sts.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Alliance Assurance Company building (former), 19 Bond St and 22 Crawford St.<\/p>\n
\u2022 New Zealand Insurance Company building (former), 49-51 Queens Gardens and 3-5 Crawford St.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Equitable Insurance Association building, 45-45B Queens Gardens and Vogel St.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Philps Railway Central Terminus Hotel (former), 42 Queens Gardens and Cumberland and Vogel Sts.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Lan Yuan Dunedin Chinese Garden, 39 Queens Gardens.<\/p>\n
\u2022 NZ Loan & Mercantile building (former), 31-33 Thomas Burns St, 5 Willis St and Fryatt St.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Toit\u016b\u00a0Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens.<\/p>\n
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“\u014ctepoti Dunedin Architecture: A Walking Guide”, by John Walsh and Patrick Reynolds, published by Massey University Press, RRP $45. <\/p>\n
The Otago Daily Times has five copies of\u00a0\u014ctepoti Dunedin Architecture: A Walking Guide to give away. To enter the draw, email playlist@odt.co.nz by August 29\u00a0with \u201cwalks\u201d in the subject line and your address and daytime phone number in the body of the email. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ten questions with John Walsh, author of\u00a0\u014ctepoti Dunedin Architecture. Q1: Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and now Dunedin: this series…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[138,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-578031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}