Opotiki, Australia
The corps in Opotiki, Australia was built in 1898 and located at 13 King Street and Service Lane. It was designed by Major Edward Saunders. The building is a simple barracks consisting of timber weatherboards on a timber frame construction, with a corrugated iron gabled roof. The frontage is symmetrical about the door with plain features. The main Barracks with its high stud was built with a smaller room in a lean-to at the rear for the Junior Salvationists.
The building was used for its original purpose as a meeting place for Salvationists for more than 70 years before declining numbers saw the Corps become an outpost of the Whakatane Corps in 1972. The Opotiki Arts Society then acquired the building and has been using it as a center for art.
