Heritage Christchurch

The recently reopened Heritage Christchurch set in the iconic 101 year old Old Government Building on Cathedral Square will open its doors to the public for tours on the afternoon of Sunday 19 October during the Christchurch Heritage Festival.
The tours will be at 1PM, 2PM and 3 PM. Tours are free with a voluntary gold coin going to the Historic Places Canterbury welcomed.

The Media Release is as follows:

Heritage 101 – Heritage Christchurch Open Day Sunday afternoon 19 October 2014 - For immediate release

The recently reopened Heritage Christchurch set in the iconic 101 year old Old Government Building on Cathedral Square will open its doors to the public for tours on the afternoon of Sunday 19 October during the Christchurch Heritage Festival.

The tours will be at 1PM, 2PM and 3 PM. Tours are free with a voluntary gold coin going to the Historic Places Canterbury welcomed.

Make a day of it and dine in the hotel’s recently re-opened Maddisons restaurant for brunch before your tour or stay for afternoon tea afterwards. Breakfast prices are from $17.

Maddisons restaurant offers an a la carte breakfast from 6.30 AM and brunch through to 1 PM on the day. Afternoon tea will be on offer from 1 PM until 4 PM.

The tours will be taken by experienced historians and will include a look at the hotel’s amazing architecture by Joseph Clarkson Maddison, a viewing of a hotel room and the hotel’s conference and wedding facilities.

Website www.heritagehotels.co.nz/christchurch

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Heritage Christchurch was designed by renowned founding city architect, Joseph Clarkson Maddison, and is believed to be his crowning work in a career that spanned a half a century in Canterbury.

The Old Government Building, his one remaining working heritage building post the quake, is described as of ‘monumental importance’ to Christchurch’s architectural history and has an intriguing past along with a promising future.

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