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Christchurch (/ ˈ k r aɪ s. tʃ ɜːr tʃ / ⓘ; Māori: Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island and the second-largest city by urban area population in New Zealand. [a] Christchurch has an urban population of 415,100, and a metropolitan population of over half a million.
Riccarton House is an historic building in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is part of the Riccarton estate, the first area in Christchurch lived in by British settlers, after which the suburb of Riccarton is named. The house was commissioned by Jane Deans, the widow of Canterbury pioneer John Deans, and finished in 1856. It was twice extended ...
New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Woolstore (former) [291] 116–118 Durham Street, Sydenham Media related to New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Woolstore, Christchurch at Wikimedia Commons II Nurse Maude Medical Hospital (Formerly McDougall Residence) [186] 24 McDougall Avenue, Merivale Media related to Nurse Maude Hospital at Wikimedia Commons II
New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero. Heritage New Zealand . Isaac House , previously also known as the Cook & Ross Building and the National Bank Building is a heritage-listed building opposite Victoria Square, Christchurch , on the south-western corner of Armagh and Colombo streets.
On 11 July 1991 the Christchurch City Council purchased the building from the government for $735,000. The council then sold it to the ‘Symphony Group’ in 1995 and it was converted into a hotel with the conditions to strengthen and conserve the building. [1] [4] It is now home to the Heritage Hotel Christchurch and the bar O.G.B. [5] [6]
Ngaio Marsh House, the home of Dame Ngaio Marsh for most her life, is a heritage property in Valley Road in the Christchurch suburb of Cashmere.It serves as a museum to Dame Ngaio, one of New Zealand's most famous cultural figures and one of the original Queens of Crime from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers, and Margery Allingham.
The building was registered as a heritage building by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust on 26 November 1981 with registration number 1863 classified as Category II listing. [2] The Christchurch City Council also lists the Curator's House as a Heritage Place for its "high historical and social significance for its association with the ...
Christchurch is a major city in the Canterbury Region, and is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand.With a Māori history stemming back to the thirteenth century as the domain of the historic Waitaha iwi, Christchurch was constituted as a colonial outpost of the British Empire in 1850.