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• The Anchor Inn

  The original Anchor Inn building was built in 1856 on Haven Road near Auckland Point. Prior to the land reclamations of the 1950s, Haven Road was a narrow,...

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• Bank of New South Wales

  Founders Heritage Park contains a replica (pictured right) of the first Bank of New South Wales that was built in Nelson, which opened on February 1st 1862. Nelson...

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• Broadgreen House

  English settler Edmund Buxton, with his wife and family of six daughters, commissioned architect Mr Beatson and builder Mr Holland to create their home. It was completed about 1855,...

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• Cottage Hospital

  Early Nelson had no shortage of medical men, but providing medical buildings was much more difficult. The first hospital was a lean-to added to the side of the...

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• John and Kurapa Davis

  We are inclined to think of New Zealand residents of the nineteenth century as being of either Māori or European background, but during the latter half of the...

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