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Cargill's Castle

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84:, so named because this quiet beach is only accessible through a steeply sloping tunnel cut into the 60 metres (200 ft) high cliffs by the Cargill family. It is also very likely that Petre was the supervisor of the construction of the tunnel. While designing the house, Petre fell in love with Cargill's daughter Margaret. After a difficult courtship (due to Petre's staunch 22: 95:
The building was gutted by a fire in 1892, Cargill restored the castle but was unable to meet the cost of replacing all the wooden furnishings, though he did add a ballroom. The castle had several owners after Cargill's death in 1903, and was opened as a restaurant and cabaret in the 1930s by John
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Hutton, which became popular with visiting servicemen during World War II. Plans have been made on several occasions to restore the building to its former glory, but none have yet borne fruit. The castle now lies in ruins, a shell of what it once was. There is no public access to the site.
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The house is built from concrete, with concrete roofs on the loggia and the tower, and concrete floors. Several different types of reinforcement were used, which makes this an early example of the technology both in New Zealand and overseas.
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The ruins of Cargill's Castle, now surrounded by new residential subdivisions, in southwest Dunedin, New Zealand.
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Heritage New Zealand Category 1 historic places in Otago
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in New Zealand, the other one in Otago being nearby
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ruins
Pacific Ocean
New Zealand
Dunedin
castles
Larnach Castle
Italianate
mansion
Edward Cargill
William Cargill
Francis Petre
Tunnel Beach
Catholicism
Presbyterianism



"Cargills Castle"
Heritage New Zealand
"Marriage"
Evening Star
"Petre, Francis William"
Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
"Historical Significance of Cargill's Castle"
the original
"Inaccessible Cargills Castle promoted overseas"
"Pieces of the jigsaw - the early development of concrete in Otago, New Zealand"
ISBN

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