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| FORMER POST OFFICE |
| Residents have come to Akaroa’s former post office for more than 90 years to post letters, attend to business and seek information. |
| Date Built: 1915 |
| Street Address: 78 Rue Lavaud |
| HPT Registered: No |
| District Plan Registered: Yes |
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| FORMER ROMAN CATHOLIC CONVENT |
| One of a cluster of buildings associated with the Roman Catholic Church, the former Convent is now part of a retirement home. |
| Date Built: 1906-07 |
| Street Address: 6 Rue Viard |
| HPT Registered: Yes |
| District Plan Registered: Yes |
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| FORMER VANGIONI STORE |
| This handsome shop building has an intriguing association with a famous Akaroa resident, Pompey the penguin. |
| Date Built: 1878/1881 |
| Street Address: 40 Rue Lavaud |
| HPT Registered: No |
| District Plan Registered: Yes |
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| FORMER WEIGHBRIDGE BUILDING |
| This building, now a shop, housed a weighbridge at a time most goods still arrived in Akaroa by sea.
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| Date Built: 1910 |
| Street Address: Beach Road |
| HPT Registered: No |
| District Plan Registered: Yes |
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| Structures and Sites |
| FRENCH LANDING SITE |
| Memorials stand on the foreshore where the French settlers who founded Akaroa came ashore in August 1840. |
| Date Built: 1840 |
| Street Address: Beach Road |
| HPT Registered: Yes |
| District Plan Registered: Yes |
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| GAIETY THEATRE |
| An imposing Italianate hall that was originally a Lodge has been one of Akaroa’s main gathering places for more than a century. |
| Date Built: 1879 |
| Street Address: 105 Rue Jolie |
| HPT Registered: Yes |
| District Plan Registered: Yes |
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| Dwellings |
| GLENCARRIG |
| This house, one of Akaroa’s oldest surviving dwellings, is one of the town’s most important buildings, architecturally and historically. |
| Date Built: 1852 & 80 |
| Street Address: 7 Percy Street |
| HPT Registered: Yes |
| District Plan Registered: Yes |
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| GRAND HOTEL |
Akaroa is mostly a town of “timber and tin”. The Grand Hotel is one of Akaroa’s few older masonry buildings.
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| Date Built: 1882-83 |
| Street Address: 6 Rue Lavaud |
| HPT Registered: No |
| District Plan Registered: Yes |
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| GREEN’S POINT MONUMENT |
| A stone obelisk marks where a flag was raised in August 1840 to demonstrate to the French settlers that the South Island was already British. |
| Date Built: 1898 |
| Street Address: Beach Road |
| HPT Registered: No |
| District Plan Registered: No |
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| HOUSE, 11 RUE BALGUERIE |
| Though it looks rather different from most of Akaroa’s early dwellings, this small house was almost certainly built in the 1860s. |
| Date Built: 1860's |
| Street Address: 11 Rue Balguerie |
| HPT Registered: No |
| District Plan Registered: Yes |
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| LA BELLE VILLA |
| One of Akaroa’s most photographed buildings, this Carpenter Gothic house dates from 1874. |
| Date Built: 1874-75 |
| Street Address: 113 Rue Jolie |
| HPT Registered: Yes |
| District Plan Registered: Yes |
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| LANGLOIS-ETEVENEAUX COTTAGE |
| A survivor from the earliest years of French Akaroa, the Langlois-Eteveneaux Cottage is now part of the Akaroa Museum. |
| Date Built: About 1841 |
| Street Address: 71 Rue Lavaud |
| HPT Registered: Yes |
| District Plan Registered: Yes |
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| MADEIRA HOTEL |
| A four-square, two-storeyed building, the Madeira is typical of older hotels in many small New Zealand towns. |
| Date Built: 1907 |
| Street Address: 46 Rue Lavaud |
| HPT Registered: No |
| District Plan Registered: Yes |
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| MAISON DE LA MER |
| One of the Akaroa’s larger homes, this English Domestic Revival house was the residence of successive Akaroa doctors. |
| Date Built: 1903-07 |
| Street Address: 83 Rue Lavaud |
| HPT Registered: No |
| District Plan Registered: Yes |
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| MCROSTIES |
| Three identical cottages were built on Rue Lavaud in 1907. The two that remain are now commercial premises. |
| Date Built: 1907 |
| Street Address: 47 Rue Lavaud |
| HPT Registered: No |
| District Plan Registered: Yes |
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