The Dunedin Club is a members' club at 33 Melville Street in central Dunedin, housed in the heritage Fernhill homestead. The Club was founded in 1858 in rented premises on Maclaggan Street, ten years after the first European settler ships arrived in Otago; the Fernhill building it now occupies was built in 1867 by whaler, run-holder and businessman John "Johnny" Jones. The Club is one of the few clubs in New Zealand to retain its original grounds, and the gardens and driveway remain a feature of the property.
The Dunedin Club is a private members' club and not open to the general public, though members may host guests. Its dining rooms include the mid-Victorian Dining Room with a garden-facing conservatory, the Reading Room, which seats around 30 guests for private functions or smaller lunches, and the smaller Ritchie Room, suited to dinners of up to 15 guests or business meetings. The RWM Greenslade Room serves as the Club's bar and card room, opening onto a terrace and garden. Formal sit-down banquets can be accommodated for up to 100 guests. The Club also offers overnight accommodation of six double rooms, two twin rooms and one single room for members and their guests.
For meetings, conferences and events, the Club caters for business lunches, working lunches, coffee breaks and canapé functions alongside weddings and members' events such as speaker evenings and black-tie dinners, with menus tailored to each occasion from its own kitchen. Smart-casual dress is required throughout.
With its heritage setting, range of private dining rooms and on-site accommodation, the Dunedin Club suits corporate meetings, private conferences and formal functions looking for a distinctive, history-rich central Dunedin venue among Dunedin venues.
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