Image collection: Public buildings

This is a sample of photographs of public buildings. You can search the catalogue for more or browse the collections.

View of Christchurch to the west from the tower of the Provincial Government Buildings [ca. 1860]	View down Colombo Street toward the Port Hills at right is Market (Victoria) Square and at left is the Crystal Palace, Christchurch [ca. 1870]	A view of former hospital buildings from the Antigua Boatsheds [ca. 1880]
A man ploughs outside Sunnyside Asylum, Christchurch [ca. 1880]	Cathedral Square from the Cathedral tower, showing Post Office built in 1879 [ca. 1882]	New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency building, Timaru [ca. 1882]
Cathedral Square, showing Post Office and Godley Statue with delivery carts and pedestrians [ca. 1882]	Canterbury College, Christchurch, showing clock tower and Great Hall [ca. 1882]	Canterbury College, Christchurch, showing clock tower and Great Hall [ca. 1882]
Women's room, Sunnyside Asylum, Christchurch [ca. 1883]	Hackney and hansom cabs at City Hotel crossing at the intersection of Colombo and High Streets with Fishers' building at left [ca. 1884]	The post and Telegraph Office in Norwich Quay, Lyttelton [ca. 1885]
Delivery carts in Cathedral Square between the Godley statue & the Post Office, originally the Government Buildings, Christchurch [ca. 1885]	Christchurch City Council Chambers, corner of Worcester Street and Oxford Terrace [ca. 1890]	The Rhodes Convalescent Home from the front terrace [1896]
YMCA, Christchurch [ca. 1900]	The Christchurch railway station [ca. 1900]	The old Supreme Court building, Christchurch [ca. 1900]
Canterbury Museum [ca. 1900]	Railway yard and station, west of the Madras Street bridge, Christchurch, 1900	Interior of the Gravenor Building, corner of Manchester and Hereford Streets, Christchurch, 1900
The Lyttelton Times' new premises, 1903 [1904]	Additions to the Christchurch Police Station [1906]	The Observatory at Canterbury College [ca. 1910]
Caretaker's residence and quarantine hospital on Quail Island among the trees are the three leper huts [1911]	The Council Chambers, Spreydon, Christchurch [1913]	The Government Buildings, Cathedral Square, Christchurch [1913]
Addington Raceway stewards' stand, New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club's August meeting [1915]	Canterbury College, University of New Zealand lecture theatres in Northern Quad, to right is Engineering School [ca. 1919]	The demonstration farm headquarters at Avonhead for returned soldiers at the new soldiers' settlement near Avonhead, Christchurch [1919]
The Observatory, Botany and Physics buildings of Canterbury College, Christchurch [ca. 1919]	Smoke emanates from the Christchurch City Council's destructor in an aerial photograph of the central city, Christchurch [ca. 1920]	The municipal offices in Manchester Street, Christchurch [1925]
Canterbury College Library [ca. 1926]	3YA radio station, Christchurch, 1927	The Café, New Brighton, Christchurch, [ca. 1930]
Victorian Café Gallery, corner Oxford Terrace and Montreal Street, Christchurch, 11 October 1968