Inverlochy House

Inverlochy House (also known as Inverlochie House and Inverlochy Flats) is a historic building and art school in Wellington, New Zealand.

Inverlochy House
Inverlochy House in 2014
General information
Location3 Inverlochy Place, Te Aro, Wellington
Coordinates41.293705°S 174.770122°E / -41.293705; 174.770122
Current tenantsInverlochy Art School
Completed1878
OwnerNew Zealand Academy of Fine Arts
Designated26 May 2006
Reference no.1398

The house was originally built for the Wellingtonian councillor Kennedy Macdonald in 1878. When the estate was auctioned in 1893, due to Macdonald's bankruptcy, the building was described as having:[1]

14 rooms, 2 bathrooms, every modern convenience, water laid on, 2 conservatories, a vinery, a fernery, fowl house, wash house and offices, stable with 2 stalls and loose box, being in a salubrious and fashionable location, and an unrivalled family residence

— New Zealand Times, 20 January 1893

In 1980 the Williams Development Holdings Limited gifted Inverlochy House to the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts for the use of the Williams School of Art at Inverlochy Incorporated.[2] The building is said to be haunted.[3][4]

The building is classified as a Category 2 historic building by Heritage New Zealand.[2]

References
  1. Inverlochy Art School: History of Inverlochy
  2. "Inverlochy House". New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero. Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  3. "The renaissance of Wellington's history-filled Inverlochy Art School". 7 January 2022.
  4. "Art School's ghostly reputation". 6 July 2011.

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