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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. |
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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. |
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| Commercial Buildings |
| FORMER VANGIONI STORE |
| This handsome shop building has an intriguing association with a famous Akaroa resident, Pompey the penguin. |
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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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| Structures and Sites |
| FRENCH LANDING SITE |
| Memorials stand on the foreshore where the French settlers who founded Akaroa came ashore in August 1840. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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| Structures and Sites |
| 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. |
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| Dwellings |
| 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. |
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