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Otago Boys' High School (OBHS) is a secondary school in

, New Zealand. It is one of New Zealand's oldest boys' secondary schools. Originally known as Dunedin High School, it was founded on 3 August 1863 and moved to its present site in 1885. The main building was designed by Robert Lawson and is regarded as one of the finest

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structures in the country. Situated on high ground above central Dunedin it commands excellent views of the city and is a prominent landmark.

now occupies the original site in Tennyson Street, closer to the centre of the city and is Otago Boys' sister school. The school owns a lodge in

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, and has regular field trips for students.

Building history

The school opened on its present site in Arthur Street in 1885. The Main Tower Block was designed by R A Lawson and built for 14,800 pounds in blue stone, Port Chalmers

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and

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by W A Carlton. It has long been regarded as a fine design and is listed as a Category I Historic Place. The foundation rector, Thomas Campbell, was a graduate of St John's College, Cambridge, and headmaster of

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. He arrived with his family in Deborah Bay on 3 July 1863, and took the steamer ''Pride of Yarra'' for Dunedin the following day. The steamer collided with the ''Favorite'' off Kilgour Point, and sank with the loss of 13 lives, among them the entire Campbell party, consisting of Thomas Campbell, his wife, five children aged 5 weeks to 5 years, and their two servants. Two other masters were appointed at the same time as Campbell. The English master was George P. Abram, a Senior Scholar and Prizeman of

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, Cambridge, and Second Master of Wolverhampton Grammar School. Daniel Brent, a Senior Scholar and Prizeman of Queen's College, Cambridge, and a Mathematical master of

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, was appointed Mathematical Master. After Mr Campbell's death, Abram filled in as principal until another appointment could be made. The school opened 3 August 1863 with Abram as principal and a roll of 80 pupils. In May 1864, the Reverend F. C. Simmons, of Lincoln College, Oxford, and Head-master of the Dundee Proprietary School, arrived to take up the position of Rector. Increasing roll numbers from 1903 led to the opening of the Shand Building in 1914, designed by

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. He was also responsible for the Rectory, 1913, the principal's onsite residence.Griffiths, Eccles, McCoy, 1983, pp.40–41. The Shand Building, originally called "Shand Hall" cost 3,600 pounds. The following year it was extended to a design by

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(1879–1972). A memorial arch at the entrance to the grounds, built in blue stone and Oamaru stone and designed by Leslie Coombs (1885–1952) was unveiled in 1923.Arnold (et al), 1963 p.23. In 1920 the Fulton Building provided six additional classrooms, but this has since been replaced with the gymnasium complex and rehoused swimming pool designed by E.J.

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as part of the later major restoration and redevelopment of the school's buildings. There is a teaching block, named after a former Rector, Mr. W.J. Morrell, which was erected in 1961 to a standard Ministry of Works design, though contextualised with blue stone fascias by the architect Ian R McAllum. A grandstand with similar fascias on its rearward elevation forms part of a quadrangle, with the Morrell building, behind the Lawson building. This was also designed by McAllum and built from 1962 to 1963. It has a cantilevered, multiple-gabled canopy added in 1964. Specialist science laboratories designed by Angus Black were constructed in 1967 and were named after the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir

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, an Old Boy of the school. Mr D J MacLachlan, Rector from 1963 to 1985, worked tirelessly for the construction of the main teaching block which now bears his name. This is part of the major restoration and redevelopment which saw the refurbishment of the Main Tower Block, the central feature of which is the Maurice Joel Theatre. It also involved the construction of several large new buildings, forming a new quadrangle around the former Green in the greatest expansion of the complex since the 1880s. This considerable undertaking, designed by E.J.

was completed in 1983. The new buildings, though unmistakably

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, nevertheless sit very comfortably with the old. Where Lawson's tower block is an exemplary composition in the

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style, taking its inspiration from the 16th-century tower houses and reading something like a toy fort or a castle to a modern eye, McCoy's blue stone aggregate and fair face concrete echo its materials while the new complex's gun slot windows are a playful reference to the

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which echoes the old building's military theme. The new buildings are also very modestly set below the old so the latter take visual pre-eminence from a distance. The project won the architect a National Award from the

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. It has also been pointed to as an example of his unusual ability to mix the emphatically old with the unashamedly new.

Notable alumni

References

Sources

* T.J. Arnold (''et al.''), ''Centennial Publication Otago Boys' High School Old Boys' Register'', Dunedin: NZ; Otago High School Old Boys' Society (Inc.), 1963. * G.J. Griffiths, Alfred Eccles, E.J. McCoy, ''Otago Boys' High and its historic neighbourhood'', Dunedin: NZ; Otago Heritage Books, 1983. *

External links

Official website

OBHS Foundation website
{{Schools in Otago Boarding schools in New Zealand Boys' schools in New Zealand NZHPT Category I listings in Otago Educational institutions established in 1863 Jacobethan architecture Secondary schools in Dunedin Robert Lawson buildings Edmund Anscombe buildings 1863 establishments in New Zealand 1880s architecture in New Zealand Harry Mandeno buildings Central Dunedin

Building history

Notable alumni

See also

References

Sources

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