Olveston Dunedin

42 Royal Terrace, Dunedin , South Island, New Zealand - Phone: 64 3 4773320
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    Attraction Type:

    Historic home

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  • 1

    Dunedin's Drosh

    ... ride into the country, the Otago Peninsula with wacky yellow-headed penguins. Not to mention lots of vegetarian cafes... Dunedin is New Zealand's first real city, founded in March 1848 when European settlers arrived at Port Chalmers, halfway up Otago ...

  • 2

    The road to recovery... literally

    9 photos

    ... house, checking out Baldwin St (steepest in the world! But didn't walk up it), and the botanical gardens which we gorgeous. Olveston House is basically this really lush house, which is pretty well the same as it was when the last remaining Theomin family ...

  • 3

    Botanical Gardens & Olveston House

    19 photos

    ... was so colorful & just gorgeous. We really enjoyed the peaceful stroll through here. The other stop we made was the Olveston House. An old house that was donated to the historical society by the daughter of the family that built the house over 100 ...

  • 4

    Dunedin

    14 photos

    ... museum... not too overwhelming, and not too few and stretched out. The next day, I took a tour of a merchant's home called Olveston. I could not take photos inside, but the house was chock full of things brought back from their travels in the 1800's. ...

  • 5

    Where are the Penguins!!

    6 photos

    In the morning we went to visit Olveston House, its a Jacobean-style house left to the town by the last owner, Dorothy Theomin. She had said that the town could have use of the house providing nothing was removed from any of the rooms. So the ...

  • 6

    Dunedin

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    Fairly boring drive Te Anau to Dunedin - quite a bit of flooding as well Dunedin - pouring rain City walk to see sights & shops Olveston - beautiful Jacobean furnished house - interesting guided tour Lovely dinner at Camelot Restarant in ...