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In 1871, as part of the package for moving the capital to Wellington in 1865, the government completed a new Government House in the city. Built to a cheaper Italianate design after a Gothic building proved too costly, the house served New Zealand's governors until 1907, when it was needed by the government to house politicians and staff displaced by a fire in Parliament Buildings.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, E. R. Williams Collection
Reference: 1/1-025724-G
by William Williams
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