The buildings of the South Island of New Zealand are rich in variety and history. They are presented here to help preserve and make known our architectural and cultural heritage.

The work is one of two volumes entitled HISTORIC BUILDINGS OF NEW ZEALAND and is published in conjunction with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. This work concentrates on the buildings of the South Island whilst its companion volume explores the historic buildings and places of the North Island.

There is a range of buildings offered: from the solid splendour of churches and public buildings designed by architects such as Mountfort, Lawson, Petre and Hurst Seager to utilitarian industrial and farm buildings such as woolsheds, stables, flour mills, freezing works and the structures of the coal and goldfields. There are the mansions of Marlborough and Canterbury runholders and the cob and schist cottages of miners and shepherds which seem to grow out of the very landscape of Central Otago and the Mackenzie country. Some of the buildings are well known, others will come as a surprise.

The text has been well researched and written to bring these buildings to life within the social context of the South Island in the nineteenth century.

- from the inside cover.

Published by Methuen New Zealand with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, 1983.
Very good secondhand condition - slight discolouration at the top front of the otherwise intact dust-jacket.