Photo: Percy GodberGround markings at the former Seacliff asylum could be used to help get across the significance of the main hospital building that once stood there. At 228m long and 70m wide, the psychiatric hospital was New Zealand’s largest building when it was completed in 1884. Marking out the footprint of the hospital is among a series of moves proposed for the 16.4ha Truby King Reserve. One wanted the name changed to Seacliff Historic Reserve. The reserve is named after prominent physician and health campaigner Sir Frederic Truby King, who was a pioneer in treatment methods at Seacliff and went on to found the Plunket Society.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 19, 2021 19:41 UTC