caption death_date death_place birth_place nationality birth_date image article_title significant_projects name
john campbell , around 1892 04 august 1942 wellington , new zealand scotland scotland 04 july 1857 john campbell -lrb- architect -rrb- . jpg john campbell -lrb- architect -rrb-
 dunedin law courts , public trust building john campbell
john campbell -lrb- architect -rrb-

john campbell -lrb- 4 july 1857 -- 4 august 1942 -rrb- was a scottish architect , responsible for many government buildings in new zealand .
born in scotland , he travelled to new zealand in 1882 after training in glasgow under john gordon .
from 1883 to his retirement in 1922 he worked for the government , holding the title of government architect from 1909 onwards .
he is most widely known for post offices , including those of auckland and wellington and two other designs reproduced widely across the country .
in new zealand he first lived and worked in dunedin .
while there he was responsible for the 1896 prison , later also a police station , in the queen anne manner and reminiscent of norman shaw 's new scotland yard , and for the dunedin law courts building , an adaptation of an earlier design for a railway station whose plan is a precursor of campbell 's design for the new zealand parliament building in wellington .
he died in wellington in 1942 .
