The Treasury
The Treasury is housed within two extraordinary buildings of national and international interest and located side by side at 705 Queen Street, Thames.
Each building is imposing in its own way and completely juxtaposed architecturally.
The Thames Carnegie Library, built in 1905, was refurbished by the Thames-Coromandel District Council in 2007 and reopened as The Treasury in 2009.
Today The Carnegie Library is recognised as a Category 2 Building by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. Alongside it, The Treasury Archive is a bespoke designed, award-winning state-of-the-art facility, stark in its architecture, which respectfully and artistically interprets aspects of the Carnegie Library design.
The team at The Treasury collect and preserve records, photos and maps about the people and places of the old goldfields region, and make them available to visitors who are researching their family or the history of the region.
As guardians of the local heritage, The Treasury Research Centre and Archive has always been committed to preserving and sharing this community’s rich history.
The Treasury and its staff are specialists in family records – they collect, house, preserve and make accessible paper-based records of the history of the people, organisations and businesses from this rohe/area which includes the entire Coromandel Peninsula and the Hauraki area including Paeroa, Waikino, Waihi, the Hauraki Plains, Ohinemuri and Te Aroha.
Run by The Coromandel Heritage Trust, The Treasury is a secure repository for these records and documents. Its primary focus is the safety and preservation of its treasured collections. These include rare and invaluable items like a late 1800s ledger written in Te Reo Māori, a 1798 issue of the UK’s ‘The Times’, and historical documents signed by figures like the Duke of Wellington.
The Treasury Catalogue Online
The Treasury’s research library index is available. It opens the doors to a trove of people and places of the Coromandel Peninsula and Hauraki District.
http://www.thames-database.45.113.8.251.sth.nz/
Hours
Wednesday – Saturday 11.00 am – 3.00 pm
Discover more about The Treasury here.
The Coromandel Heritage Trust has published a series of nine True Tales books with stories and photos about the people and places in the TCDC & HDC areas. These are available from The Treasury shop. https://www.thetreasury.org.nz/book-shop
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Website: https://www.thetreasury.org.nz/
705 Queen Street, Thames, New Zealand
The Treasury
The Treasury is housed within two extraordinary buildings of national and international interest and located side by side at 705 Queen Street, Thames.
Each building is imposing in its own way and completely juxtaposed architecturally.
The Thames Carnegie Library, built in 1905, was refurbished by the Thames-Coromandel District Council in 2007 and reopened as The Treasury in 2009.
Today The Carnegie Library is recognised as a Category 2 Building by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. Alongside it, The Treasury Archive is a bespoke designed, award-winning state-of-the-art facility, stark in its architecture, which respectfully and artistically interprets aspects of the Carnegie Library design.
The team at The Treasury collect and preserve records, photos and maps about the people and places of the old goldfields region, and make them available to visitors who are researching their family or the history of the region.
As guardians of the local heritage, The Treasury Research Centre and Archive has always been committed to preserving and sharing this community’s rich history.
The Treasury and its staff are specialists in family records – they collect, house, preserve and make accessible paper-based records of the history of the people, organisations and businesses from this rohe/area which includes the entire Coromandel Peninsula and the Hauraki area including Paeroa, Waikino, Waihi, the Hauraki Plains, Ohinemuri and Te Aroha.
Run by The Coromandel Heritage Trust, The Treasury is a secure repository for these records and documents. Its primary focus is the safety and preservation of its treasured collections. These include rare and invaluable items like a late 1800s ledger written in Te Reo Māori, a 1798 issue of the UK’s ‘The Times’, and historical documents signed by figures like the Duke of Wellington.
The Treasury Catalogue Online
The Treasury’s research library index is available. It opens the doors to a trove of people and places of the Coromandel Peninsula and Hauraki District.
http://www.thames-database.45.113.8.251.sth.nz/
Hours
Wednesday – Saturday 11.00 am – 3.00 pm
Discover more about The Treasury here.
The Coromandel Heritage Trust has published a series of nine True Tales books with stories and photos about the people and places in the TCDC & HDC areas. These are available from The Treasury shop. https://www.thetreasury.org.nz/book-shop
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Website: https://www.thetreasury.org.nz/
705 Queen Street, Thames, New Zealand
Phone Number: 07 868 8827
Email: kiaora@thetreasury.org.nz
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Phone Number: 07 868 8827
Email: kiaora@thetreasury.org.nz
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