Mount Cook

A sunny, character inner city suburb, Mt Cook is one of Wellington’s oldest areas, within easy walking distance of most of the city’s attractions.  It’s home to Massey University’s Wellington campus, Wellington High School and zoned for Wellington College, one of the country’s leading state secondary schools for boys. 

Mt Cook is known for its cute colonial cottages (many now carefully restored by the trendsetters who ‘found’ it in the 1980s), with some grand old dames in areas like Bidwell Street. 

Keep an eye out for the old brick Mt Cook gaol built in 1882 by prison labour; it was converted into a barracks in 1900 because local residents hated living near a prison.

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