6 Harbour Street

Meeks Store is unique among the buildings on Harbour Street as it is the only building that the original ornate entablature and facade was not removed. This solid and mostly overlooked Victorian building designed by Forrester and Lemon was amongst the founding buildings of the The Oamaru Whitestone Civic Trust, built for J and T Meek in 1876. It also makes it one of the earliest buildings to be built on Harbour Street, with the act of Parliament that created the Harbour endowment in 1874. Built as part of the Meek's milling empire and designed to hold 30,000 sacks of grain, like many other buildings on Harbour Street Meeks Store had a water engine to power the equipment. By the 1920s the building was owned by Darling & McDowell, who installed the large grass seed cleaning machines that are still in the building today. As the production of grain declined the building use changed too and eventually became a Woolstore. Over the last 149 years it has had many owners after Darling and McDowell it passed to Northern Farmers, Wrightsons and Dalgetys before being sold to the Trust in the mid 1980s. Today the building needs restoration work to stabilise its facade, and repair the damage caused by the Oamaru stone being covered in

Recent Works 

Work was undertaken to repair the front office / shop and bring it up to a leasable standard. A project was launched in 2025 to create a display around the seed cleaning machines.                                                  Cycle Journeys lead a major renovation of the warehouse space, and it is now there Oamaru HQ 

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