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Designed by Government Architects, 1940, refurbished 2016

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A selection of images of heritage buildings

Oriental Bay with St Gerard’s Church and Monastery on Mt Victoria. Boat sheds in foreground.

Built 1938-40, architect: Edmund Anscombe

Wellington Harbour Board Wharf Office Building (Shed 7), now art gallery and apartments

CIty & Sea Museum

Shed 21, former Harbour Board wool store, now apartments

Built in 1905, a matching pair with Shed 11.

Shed 5, waterfront. Now a restaurant.

Also known as Early Settlers Museum, constructed 1939. Architect: Horace Lovell Massey

Opened 1961, architect: John Scott

Futuna Chapel award

Rita Angus Cottage, Thorndon

Makara, former radio station operated by Post Office

St Gerard’s Church and Monastery

St Gerard’s Chapel interior

St Gerard’s Chapel window

Franconia, The Terrace (detail)

Franconia, The Terrace (detail of oriel window)

Franconia, Terrace – back

Old St Paul’s Mulgrave Street

Angel Window, Old St Paul’s Church

Old St Paul’s light show

Embassy Theatre

Sexton’s Cottage, Bolton St Cemetery

Lower Hutt Town Hall

St Barnabas Church, Roseneath

Mt Cook Police Barracks

Mt Cook Police Barracks (Former)

Brick detail, former Mt Cook Police Barracks

Tram shelter (Former), Oriental Bay

Retail building in Cuba Street

Built in 1888

Katherine Mansfield Birthplace stairs

Katherine Mansfield Birthplace bedroom

Wesley Church, Taranaki Street

A few Patrick Street houses, Petone

Lighthouse, Matiu/Somes Island

Harcourts Building, Lambton Quay, Wellington

Harcourts Building interior foyer

Holy Trinity Church, Ohariu Valley, Wellington

Northland Fire Station (Former), Wellington

Pencarrow Lighthouse

Pencarrow Lighthouse plaque

Freyberg Pool

Freyberg Pool

Christ Church Taita

Opera House, Wellington

Wellington Opera House upstairs foyer ceiling

Home of Compassion Creche (former)

Former Public Trust Office

Former Public Trust Office

Former Public Trust Office, exterior detail

Former Public Trust, interior foyer

Photo by Priscilla Williams

Cottage (former school room) at Emerald Glen, Kapiti coast

House, 22 The Terrace.

Tower Building (former), Customhouse Quay

Tower Building, Customhouse Quay, decoration detail

Queen Margaret College Tower, Hobson Street

Former Railway workers cottages, Ngaio

Carillon and National War Memorial

Carillon light show, Anzac 2015

Carillon bell

Army General Headquarters Building (GHQ) (formerly)

General Headquarters Building (Former)

GHQ building (formerly), crest

Randell Cottage, Thorndon

Randell Cottage

Entrance hallway

Randell Cottage old wallpaer

Truby King House

Truby King Park sign

Archway at Truby King house & garden

Wellington Museum refurbished

Wellington Museum Attic – while still under renovation, July 2015

The Attic at the Wellington Museum

Home of Compassion Creche (former)

Dominion Museum, Buckle St (Former)

Wright’s Hill gun emplacement

Plasterer’s graffiti at Wright’s Hill, 1943

Wright’s Hill tunnel

Groundsman’s cottage at Basin Reserve

Museum stand or pavilion

Gardener’s cottage, Wellington Botanic Garden

Lady Norwood Rose Garden, Botanic Garden, seen from gardener’s cottage

Crofton, Ngaio

Home of Compassion, Island Bay, chapel entrance

Former Public Trust Building foyer

Former Public Trust Building foyer floor

Built in 1908, designed by architect John Campbell

Nairn St Cottage

Nairn St Cottage stairs

Nairn St Cottage kitchen

Fever Hospital (now SPCA)

Fever Hospital (former), signage; now occupied by SPCA

Plan for Fever Hospital

Italian Ambassador’s house

Italian Ambassador’s House, built 1877

St Peter’s Anglican Church

Interior of St Peter’s Church Willis St

Berhampore (or Centennial) Flats

St James apartments

Adelaide Road (now converted to apartments)

Friends House (Quakers), Mt Victoria

Friends House meeting room

Futuna Chapel

Lower Cuba Street buildings

Basin Reserve

Olphert Building (now demolished)

St Mary of the Angels

Bowen Street. 1918

Erskine College (former) main block (now demolished)

Former Erskine College chapel

Erskine College (former) main block (now demolished)

Home of Compassion Chapel

Former Ford Motor Company Workshops

St Joseph’s Catholic Church

St Alban’s Anglican, Pauatahanui

St Alban’s Church, Pauatahanui, cemetery

Heritage Listed by WCC and Heritage New Zealand

Evan’s Bay Patent Slip

Evan’s Bay Patent Slip

Memorial to Col William Wakefield, died 1848

Golder’s House front view

Golder’s Food Store and water pump

Upper Hutt Blockhouse

Christ Church, Taita

Christ Church, Taita

Public Trust Building

Kapiti Coast Museum, Waikanae

Island Bay Band Rotunda, a war memorial, 1929/30

Built 1912 as Governor-General’s residence

Government House Interior

Government House windows

Parliament Buildings

Albemarle Hotel (Former) Ghuznee St

Chinese Mission (former) Frederick Street

Now a restaurant

Stained glass window at St John’s Church, Willis St

Harcourts Building Lambton Quay

Harcourt’s Building foyer

Interior of St James Theatre

The Vic (former private hotel), Cuba St

St Mary of the Angels interior

St Mary of the Angels from Majestic Centre 2016

Thorndon School Hall (former Old St Paul’s schoolroom)

Halfway House, Glenside

Halfway House interior room

Halfway House, Glenside: recently renovated

Nott House, Middleton Road, Glenside

Gear Homestead Porirua

‘The Manor’ (Dr McGavin’s house)

Dr McGavin House interior

Dr McGavin House interior

Old Government Buildings

St Andrew’s on the Terrace

Wallaceville Church, Whiteman’s Valley, Upper Hutt

Wallaceville church interior

St Peter’s Church

Karori Campus connecting bridge

Built as a teachers’ college in mid-1960s (now partly demolished)

Karori Campus inside the former library.

Anscombe Flats, Oriental Bay

Centennial Flats, Berhampore

BNZ No. 3

Clark’s building, Island Bay shops

Houses in Oriental Bay

Bus shelter Oriental Bay

Spinks Cottage, Dixon Street

‘The Wedge’ Thorndon

Thorndon houses

Tinakori Road

Wesley Methodist Church Taranaki St

Truby King House interior

Truby King House interior, inglenook

Truby King House former study

Truby King House interior

Truby King House, detail of plans. Wm Gray Young architect. 1924.

Former BNZ, Corner Lambton Quay and Willis St

Hunter St, former BNZ No 4

Sacred Heart Cathedral, Hill Street

Sacred Heart Cathedral interior

Wellington Railway Station

Wellington Railway Station (detail)

Wellington Railway Station ceiling

Outside ‘Chevening’ (Photo by Julie Middleton)

Chevening 1929, interior

Inside Trades Hall, built 1929 (Photo by Trish Knaggs)

Inside Trades Hall

Trades Hall Parnell information

Trades Hall lift, 1929

St George Hotel, 1930

Interior of St George

Change House, 1929

Change House, interior floor

Change, spandrels

Departmental Building, Stout Street, late 1930s

Departmental Building, 1940

Herd St PO (former)

Herd St PO sign

MLC, 1940, Lambton Quay

Prudential, 1935, Lambton Quay

Prudential, 1935, back

Prudential detail

Prudential detail

Reid house 1930 Cuba St

St John’s Ambulance (former), 1932

State Insurance (former) 1940

State Insurance (former), 1940, wall decoration

Historic Police Station Petone

Naenae Post Office (former)

Golders Cottage, Upper Hutt outbuilding

Grave of architect Frederick de Jersey Clere

Philosophy House 33 Aro Street

Philosophy House

Mount Street Cemetery

Mount St Cemetery

John Plimmer and Fritz

Central Fire Station

Supreme Court 1879-1881

Supreme Court 1879-1881 Interior

Somerled House, 192 The Terrace

Sign commemorating electricity in city 1888

Executive Wing (‘Beehive’), Parliament Buildings

Wellington Public Library

Wellington Public Library

Public Library interior (Part of Civic Centre heritage area)

City Library interior

Karori Cemetery small chapel, 1909

Karori Cemetery small chapel, 1909

Karori Cemetery small chapel, 1909

Public Trust Hall interior ground floor

Public Trust Hall

Public Trust Hall

Civic Centre (this is a historic area in the city council heritage schedule)

Civic Centre

Wellington Town Hall, Civic Centre

Civic Centre

Michael Fowler Centre, part of Civic Centre heritage area

Sign for first St Paul’s Church, behind the Beehive in Museum St

Bolton St Cemetery

St Hilda’s Anglican Church, Island Bay (1910)

Stained glass windows of a 1906 Mt Victoria house

Ashleigh Court, Newtown

Gordon Wilson Flats, The Terrace, 1970s colour scheme

Mt Victoria houses

Mt Victoria houses and St Gerard’s Monastery

Holloway Road, Aro Valley

Holloway Road house

Otaki former Children’s Health Camp rotunda

St Mary’s Church complex from Pukekaraka

Albion Goldmining Battery remains, Terawhiti Station

Albion Goldmining Battery remains, Terawhiti Station

‘Break of day’ gold mine entrance, Terawhiti Station

Oterongo Bay Urupa sign, Wellington south coast

Wellesley Hotel.

Former Ministerial Residence. 41 Pipitea Street

Christian Science Building.

Congregational church (former).

Clyde Quay slipway

Clyde Quay Slipway sign

House 186 Oriental Parade

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