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2. List of historic places in Dunedin - Wikipedia

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   Māori settled in Otago relatively soon after reaching New Zealand, and the Dunedin area was a major whaling centre and site of early European colonisation. [1] The building boom from the gold rush of the 1860s, coupled with the relative stagnation of the region's population in the 20th century, has led to the preservation of many old ...

3. Toitū Otago Settlers Museum - Wikipedia

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   Its collections evolved reflecting these changes but remain focused on the historical period, i.e. since James Cook's first visit to southern New Zealand in 1770. In 1927 the museum took over the adjoining building, also designed by Burnside, vacated by the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. The institution sometimes struggled financially finding ...

4. Olveston (house) - Wikipedia

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   Olveston Historic Home is a substantial house and museum in an inner suburb of Dunedin, New Zealand. The house was designed by Ernest George in the Jacobean style in the early 20th century for the Theomin family .

5. Tūhura Otago Museum - Wikipedia

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   With well over 100 years’ history on the current site, the museum building is classified by the Historic Places Trust as a Category 1 historic place. [6] The first substantial addition to the original Museum building on the Great King Street site was the Hocken Wing, which opened in 1910, housing Dr. Thomas Hocken's collection of manuscripts.

6. History of the Dunedin urban area - Wikipedia

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   In 1893 Bell Tea started production in Dunedin. [32] The New Zealand South Seas exhibition (1889) was a chance for Dunedin, New Zealand's new first city, to show off its success. Between 1881 and 1957, Dunedin was home to the Dunedin cable trams, being both one of the first and last such systems operated anywhere in the world.

7. Larnach Castle - Wikipedia

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   Larnach Castle (also referred to as "Larnach's Castle") is a mock castle on the ridge of the Otago Peninsula within the limits of the city of Dunedin, New Zealand, close to the small settlement of Pukehiki. It is one of a few houses of this scale in New Zealand. The house was built by the prominent entrepreneur and politician, William Larnach ...