They don’t make as much fuss about this building as some of the others in Oamaru – in fact it’s quite hard to get any information about it. It’s now the Community Centre but started life in 1881 as the Waitaki County Council offices. The council had been formed in 1877 to service the agricultural and pastoral areas of North Otago.
As with many others of the buildings of the historic precinct it was designed by Forrester and Lemon. As one of the smaller Palladian style edifices it is a limestone jewel.
© DON DONOVAN
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