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University buildings: Clocktower, University of Otago, 1878 (1st of 7)

University buildings: Clocktower, University of Otago, 1878

The University of Otago – New Zealand’s first university – was founded in 1869 and opened for teaching in 1871. The university was housed in a building in Dunedin’s Princes Street until 1878, when the purpose-built Clocktower building was completed. The Clocktower remained Otago’s most well-known building in the 2000s and was used in university publicity material.

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Hocken Library, University of Otago
Reference: SO9-379i
Photograph by Burton Brothers

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Kerryn Pollock, 'Tertiary education - Universities before 1990', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/34409/university-buildings-clocktower-university-of-otago-1878 (accessed 7 May 2024)

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 20 Jun 2012