Tuesday 2 June 2020 11:58am
Front and back … day and night … As the Lindo Ferguson Building gets a behind-the-scenes refresh at the rear of the building, Property Services Division Facilities Manager Jonny Goldsmith wants to say thanks to staff and students in the Departments of Physiology and Anatomy for their understanding about the care our heritage needs.
Scaffolding surrounds the University of Otago’s Lindo Ferguson Building in Great King Street for routine maintenance work that includes re-roofing, replacing single gazing with double-glazing in the windows, repointing bricks, minor strengthening, and painting parapets and other features.
The building is listed as Historic Place Category 1 so all the work by University staff is being done in close liaison with Heritage New Zealand, Property Services Division Director Dean Macaulay says.
The neoclassical building designed by Edmund Anscombe was completed in 1927, and houses Anatomy and Physiology. Anscombe designed – or designed extensions for – half the Dunedin campus’s 12 Historic Category 1 buildings.
Heritage New Zealand says Sir Lindo Ferguson was Dean of the Medical School from 1914 to 1937 and successfully lobbied the government for funding for the building despite Education Minister Sir James Parr arguing hard for a new Medical School in Auckland.