Ngā wāhi hei toro North Island New Zealand Visitor Guide PLACES TO VISIT A visitor guide to New Zealand’s rich historic buildings and sites in the North Island cared for by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.

1 Kemp House 2 3 Edmonds Ruins 4 Pompallier 5 6 Clendon House 7 Mangungu 8 Alberton

Built in 1832 in the shadow of New Zealand’s oldest stone English stonemason John Edmonds The thickness of rammed local Wander around New Zealand’s Nestled beside Hokianga Harbour, The native timber walls of Imagine the balls, garden parties Kororipo Pā, Kemp House is New building was completed in 1836, arrived in 1834, expecting to build earth walls in this unique building second oldest surviving building Clendon House links many Mangungu Mission House and elite entertainments this Zealand’s oldest building and first to warehouse mission trade the Stone Store, only to find it was fascinates visitors of all ages. Named and stroll in the gardens and historical strands. Trader and ship- overlooking Hokianga Harbour imposing house has witnessed substantial European home. It was goods. Later purchased by retired nearly completed by an Australian for Bishop Pompallier of the paddocks that harbour the owner James Reddy Clendon was were backdrop to Governor in nearly 150 years. The witness to dramatic encounters missionary , it became after a communications glitch. He French Marist mission, the French remains of the earliest farm the first US Consul and witnessed Hobson and leading Māori chiefs prominent Kerr-Taylor family between powerful Māori chiefs a kauri gum trading store central established a wheat farm and stone Provincial-style building in Russell in New Zealand. Developed by the Treaty of Waitangi. The simple at the largest signing of the Treaty introduced verandahs and and newly-arrived English to colonial lives. Today, the Stone house for his family, and made was built in 1842 as a printery, missionaries to bring European- lines, verandah and dormer of Waitangi. The kauri timber- exotic towers to their original missionaries. Take a guided tour Store offers a shopping experience the country’s first stone roller. The tannery (for bookbinding) and style farming and Christianity to windows reflect typical colonial framed construction technique was 1863 farmhouse to create their of the house and garden, and hear like no other, selling authentic timber parts of the house were storehouse. Nearly 40,000 books Māori, Te Waimate is one of the architecture. His Māori wife, Jane a local first. Built for the Wesleyan mansion in Mt Albert. Sophie the stories brought vividly to life trade goods along with fabulous destroyed by fire in the 1880s in Māori were printed here. most atmospheric places you can managed family finances for (Methodist) Mission in 1838-39, Kerr-Taylor managed the estate of how trade, religion, politics, kiwiana-style merchandise. but house and outbuilding ruins Interactive printing, tanning and visit. The sweeping gardens are her eight children for nearly 50 missionary items, portraits and for 40 years, and was a strong literacy and land deals played Upstairs, interactive displays remain as part of a historic reserve. book-binding activities are very ideal for relaxed picnics beneath years after Captain Clendon died mementoes of local ship-building women’s rights advocate. The out against a sweeping recreate a sense of the Mission popular while a stroll in the colonial the trees. The second signing in debt. Many family pieces are add to the historical ambience beautifully-preserved house is background of war, personal Station’s time and place. garden suits others. of the Treaty of Waitangi was presented in the house. Majestic of the house. New Zealand’s first rich with family possessions, ambition and hardship. Pick up a snack to enjoy in the held here. oaks shelter the garden including honey bees were introduced here many original 19th-century garden or on the riverbank. fruit trees. – a significant moment for New wallpapers, and insights into a Zealand farming. privileged slice of life. Photo: Grant Sheehan

9 Ewelme Cottage 10 Highwic 11 Melanesian Mission 12 Thames School of Mines 13 Whangamarino Redoubt 14 Rangiriri Pā 15 Te Wheoro’s Redoubt 16 Alexandra Redoubt

This charming house has the rare One of Auckland’s finest historic Dining Hall Thames gold mines produced In the heart of the Waikato One of the fiercest, most crucial During the battle at Rangiriri This well-preserved structure distinction of being lived in by the places, Highwic, its sweeping The Tudor Revival-style Melanesian nearly 70 tons of bullion. From 1885 region during the New Zealand battles of the Waikato campaign Pā in November 1863, this site clearly shows the effective redoubt same family for a century. Fully gardens and its action-packed Mission Building has a long the Thames School of Mines offered Wars, British soldiers built the of the New Zealand Wars was and its Māori fortifications was construction, with deep trenches furnished with authentic pieces events programme provide association with education in the practical training in the science of Whangamarino Redoubt in 1863 fought here in November 1863, captured by British soldiers, and high earthworks. Built in 1869 revealing a day in Victorian family an oasis of history in bustling Auckland region. Originally part gold mining, working to promote as an advance post in a chain of with heavy losses on both sides. A and an expanded redoubt built by the Armed Constabulary when life, highlights include fascinating Newmarket. One of the country’s of St Andrew's College, an Anglican more efficient gold production. defensive forts. The outline can be major defensive position, the pā for the British garrison. In the the town was named Alexandra children’s games and a major book best surviving Carpenter Gothic institution for the Christian Once New Zealand’s largest mining seen in grassland. The earth-built was exceptionally strongly built more settled late 1860s it became (renamed Pirongia in 1896), it collection. Built for Reverend houses, Highwic was built by education of Melanesian boys, it has school, it finally closed in 1954. fort was protected by a ditch and and attacking British soldiers had a British military supply base, was part of a chain of regional Vicesimus and Blanche Lush in Alfred Buckland as a home for also been home to naval training, Today, its educational equipment bank on two sides, and six metre to scale five metre high walls. Māori commanded by and named for fortifications. It was rebuilt in 1872 1863-64 as a ‘town’ house for the his large family (a prodigious an industrial school teaching work and the buildings are the best high timber stockade and trench defenders were badly outnumbered. the pro-government Māori chief to provide refuge if necessary for then-rural Howick vicar, it is largely 21 children). Open the door to practices to ‘neglected and destitute preserved in the country. The on two sides. Two 40-pounder British soldiers are buried in Wiremu Te Wheoro, of the Ngāti settlers concerned about unrest, unchanged after 1880s extensions. Victorian family life, or take in boys’, even a flying school. Built mineralogical museum includes guns shelled the Māori position, a nearby cemetery. Part of the Nahoto , to protect the district with the Māori King Tawhiao’s The luxuriant cottage garden the garden with its mature trees, from local basalt, and located in a fossils from New Zealand and Te Teo Teo Pā, nearby on the redoubt’s structure has survived, in case fighting broke out again. settlement only two km away. It complements the house, with a sweeping lawns, fernery, formal picturesque setting, it is now leased overseas, and one of Australasia’s Whangamarino Walkway. although the inner wall (scarp) is The contours are visible was abandoned in 1886. majestic oak planted in 1866. beds and native plants. as a restaurant. best mineral collections with over reduced from the original size. Visit in grassland. Photo: Kevin Jones, 3000 specimens. the Battlesite Heritage Centre in the Department of Conservation main township.

17 Tapuaeharuru Redoubt 18 Te Pōrere Redoubt 19 Opotaka 20 Springvale Bridge 21 Hurworth Cottage 22 Antrim House 23 Old St Paul’s 24 Pencarrow Lighthouse

The redoubt’s strategic location This evocative site saw the last Situated beside Lake Rotoaira and Spanning the Rangitikei River, ‘off By the 1860s, the settlement of Built for Wellington businessman Undoubtedly Wellington’s most On New Year’s Day 1859, boatloads of guarded the Waikato River major battle of the New Zealand backed by swamps in a beautiful the beaten track’ on the Gentle Hurworth near New Plymouth was a Robert Hannah, founder of loved church, its first Anglican Wellingtonians went to Wellington crossing at Lake Taupo’s outflow. Wars. In 1869, after being pursued natural setting, Opotaka is the site Annie Road between Taihape and thriving self-sufficient community Hannah’s Footwear, and his family, cathedral is built from local Harbour’s Pencarrow Head to Constructed in 1870 by the Armed by the Crown across the North of a 19th-century Māori kāinga Napier, this stylishly engineered yet of six houses. During the Taranaki Antrim House was both elegant materials in Gothic Revival style, celebrate New Zealand’s first Constabulary, the perceived threat Island, Māori leader Te Kooti (village). The remains of houses, rare suspension bridge was opened Wars, the families fled and all but and advanced for 1905. It is a and consecrated in 1866. The permanent lighthouse lit “in all its from war leader Te Kooti came to fortified the redoubt by adapting kūmara storage pits and ovens are in 1925 for farmers to send meat this cottage was destroyed. The grand house, built in the Italianate interior glows with native timbers, brilliancy”. The lighthouse was made nothing and in fact the redoubt classic British military techniques still visible at the site. From here, and wool to markets. In 1970 a new house was built by Harry Atkinson, style with beautiful stained glass stained glass windows, memorial of cast iron in England as a kitset saw no fighting and was abandoned to create two levels of earth walls view Motuopuhi, on the other bridge superseded Springvale, but who went on to become Premier of windows, kauri panelling and zinc brasses and colourful flags, and sent to New Zealand in 480 in 1885. A comprehensive design, and outer ditch, with corner island in the lake, where the great local sentiment saved the original. New Zealand four times. The simple ceilings but with modern touches including the US Marines. Public packages. Mary Jane Bennett, whose it included a telegraph station bastions. Te Kooti escaped capture, chief Te Rauparaha wrote the haka The area is enjoyed by locals and rectangular cottage with front like gas, electric lights and indoor protest saved Old St Paul’s from husband drowned on the rocks as well as quarters for officers but 37 of his supporters were killed that was later made famous by the visitors as a picnic spot. verandah and attractive garden is bathrooms. There is a stable block demolition after a new cathedral was below, became lighthouse keeper, an and men and a reading room. and are buried here. Enjoy the All Blacks. idyllic, while the early graffiti drawn and conservatory. Appropriately, built in the 1960s. Still consecrated extraordinary role for a well-brought The courthouse also functioned short walk through native bush. on the walls is a reminder of more it is the headquarters for the New but not a parish church, Old St Paul’s up Englishwoman. Eventually the as Constabulary hall. An 1874 difficult times. Zealand Historic Places Trust and is used regularly for many cultural lighthouse was replaced with another pumice-block magazine built to Photo: Richard Roberts, Touch Design an oasis amid high-rise buildings. and spiritual events. at sea level for better visibility in fog. house munitions also survives. Photo: Grant Sheehan Photo: Grant Sheehan Photo: Grant Sheehan

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Kaitaia Kerikeri 1 2 3 5 4 7 1 6 10 16 221 6 Russell Kemp House Clendon House Highwic Alexandra Redoubt Antrim House Kawakawa 246 Kerikeri Road, 14 Parnell Sreeet, 40 Gillies Avenue, Epsom, Bellot Street, Pirongia 63 Boulcott Street, Kerikeri Basin, Kerikeri 0230 Ra¯wene 0470 Auckland 1023 Wellington 6011 Whangarei Outside viewing during t (09) 407 9236 Enter from Clendon Esplanade Enter via Mortimer Pass daylight hours. t (04) 472 4341 Dargaville f (09) 407 9246 t (09) 405 7874 t (09) 524 5729 f (04) 499 0669 e [email protected] e [email protected] f (09) 524 5575 17 Tapuaeharuru Redoubt e [email protected] Open: Open: e [email protected] and Powder Magazine Open: 1 Nov - 30 Apr; daily, 10am - 5pm 1 Nov - 30 Apr; Open: Taupo Domain, Taupo Mon - Fri, 9am - 5.00 pm Warkworth 1 May - 31 Oct; daily, 10am - 4pm Sat & Sun 10am - 4pm Wed - Sun, 10:30am - 4:30pm Outside viewing during Closed weekends, public holidays Closed Christmas Day. 1 May - 31 Oct; Closed Christmas Day, Good Friday. daylight hours. & 25 Dec - 3 Jan Helensville Entry by guided tour only Sunday 10am - 4pm Access normally limited to parts of Closed Christmas Day. 11 Melanesian Mission 18 - 8 9 10 11 Te Porere Redoubt the downstairs area. AUCKLAND 2 Kerikeri Stone Store Summer & Easter holidays; Dining Hall State Highway 47, 26 km 246 Kerikeri Road, Thurs - Mon, 10am - 4pm 44 Tamaki Drive, Mission Bay, south-west of Turangi (near 23 Old St Paul’s Thames 12 Kerikeri Basin, Kerikeri 0230 Winter school holidays Auckland. Tongariro National Park) 34 Mulgrave Street, Thorndon, Sat & Sun, 10am - 4 pm Outside viewing at any time. Wellington 6011 13 Paeroa Waihi t (09) 407 9236 Look for signpost, carpark is The Melanesian Mission operates 14 15 f (09) 407 9246 off the main highway. t (04) 473 6722 7 Ma-ngungu Mission House privately as a restaurant today. e [email protected] Outside viewing during f (04) 473 6422 Location Map HAMILTON Motukiore Road, 3 km e [email protected] Open: 12 Thames School of daylight hours. 7 minutes walk He mahere whenua 1 Nov - 30 Apr; daily, 10am - 5pm from Horeke, Hokianga Harbour from carpark. Open: Daily, 9.30am - 5pm Whakatane Mines & Mineralogical 1 May - 31 Oct; daily, 10am - 4pm t (09) 401 9640 16 Museum Te Apuranginui Closed Christmas Day, Good Friday. Te Awamutu Closed Christmas Day. 19 Opotaka Tokoroa Rotorua Tokomaru Bay Open: Corner of Brown and Cochrane May be closed for short periods for 1 Nov - 30 April; Te Ponanga Saddle Road, private functions. Te Kuiti Waiotapu 3 Streets, Thames 3500 Edmonds Ruins Sat & Sun, 12 noon - 4pm State Highway 47 between Edmonds Road, Kerikeri Inlet, 1 May - 31 October; t (07) 868 6227 Turangi and National Park 24 Pencarrow Lighthouse f (07) 868 6995 20 km from Kerikeri Sun, 12 noon - 4pm Watch for signpost from Pencarrow Head, Eastbourne Taupo 17 e [email protected] Gisborne Closed Christmas Day. SH 47, an easy walk from Exterior viewing at all times. 8km walk or cycle from Eastbourne Taumarunui Open: Wed - Sun, 11am - 3pm the carpark. The historic reserve is 250 Summer & Easter school holidays; along coastline Closed public holidays. Extended 19 metres from the road. Thurs - Mon, Outside viewing during 21 18 Turangi opening during summer. Outside viewing at all times. National Park Wairoa 12 noon - 4pm. daylight hours New Plymouth 4 Pompallier Mission Please go prepared for a rugged 13 environment and changeable The Strand, Russell, 8 Alberton Whangamarino Redoubt 201 Waiouru Springvale Bridge weather conditions. Napier 0202 Oram Road, off State Highway 1, 20 100 Mount Albert Road, Mount Taihape-Napier Highway, Taihape Hastings a short distance south of Mercer t (09) 403 9015 Albert, Auckland 1025 Rangitikei f (09) 403 9030 t (09) 846 7367 Outside viewing during daylight hours. Watch for signpost, short walk Wanganui [email protected] Follow track from gate and stile. Waipukurau e f (09) 846 1919 from road. e [email protected] Open: 14 - Outside viewing during Bulls Rangiriri Pa Palmerston North 1 Nov - 30 Apr; daily 10am - 5pm Open: daylight hours Woodville 1 May - 31 Oct; daily 10am - 4pm Wed - Sun, 10:30am - 4:30pm State Highway 1, 0.5 km north from Closed Christmas Day. Closed Christmas Day, Good Friday. Rangiriri township 21 Hurworth Levin Outside viewing during daylight 906 Carrington Road, 5 Te Waimate Mission 9 Ewelme Cottage hours. Battlesite Heritage Centre in New Plymouth 344 Te Ahu Ahu Road, Waimate the township. Masterton 14 Ayr Street, Parnell, t (06) 759 2006 North 0472 Auckland 1052 15 Te Wheoro’s Redoubt e [email protected] t/f (09) 405 9734 t/f (09) 379 0202 Talbot Street, Rangiriri Open: Sat & Sun 11am - 3pm 22 23 e [email protected] e [email protected] 0.5 km from Rangiriri township, Closed Christmas Day. WELLINGTON 24 Open: Open: Sun, 10:30am - 4:30pm off Rangiriri Road 1 Nov - 30 Apr; Daily 10am - 5pm Closed Christmas Day. 1 May - 31 Oct; Sat-Mon, 10am - 4pm Outside viewing during Closed Christmas Day. daylight hours.

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The properties featured here are just a small selection of the many fascinating heritage places located throughout the North Island of New Zealand. To obtain further details of where to go and how to get there, visit our website, contact the properties listed, the New Zealand Historic Places Trust or call into any visitor information centre.

North Island. National Office Antrim House North 63 Boulcott Street Wellington 6011 ISLAND PO Box 2629 Ngā wāhi taonga o te Ika a Māui What makes New Zealand the place it is? Wellington 6140

A dynamic young country, New Zealand p (04) 472 4341 has a unique heritage and culture. f (04) 499 0669 Mission stations, life-saving lighthouses, e [email protected]

New Zealand war sites, pioneer cottages Visit the Register Online to find out more about New Zealand’s and grand houses all tell New Zealand’s unique and diverse heritage places at www.historic.org.nz.

stories. Group Tours Historic places and buildings span Groups are welcome at many of the properties featured in this brochure and can be arranged in advance by contacting the the North Island, Te Ika a Māui. property directly. Individually and collectively, they offer visitors insights into the struggles Admission Modest admission fees apply to several of these properties. and achievements of early days in a Admission is free if you are a member of the NZHPT or new country, and tales to spark the affiliated organisations. Surcharges may apply for special imagination. events and exhibitions. Cared for by the New Zealand Historic Join the NZHPT Become a member of the NZHPT and help us keep our Places Trust, each featured heritage place heritage places alive. Members receive a range of attractive adds colour to New Zealand’s history. benefits and privileges including a free subscription to , discounts on heritage merchandise, Presented in an increasingly interactive accommodation and travel, and free admission to hundreds of way, these treasures will enrich your heritage sites in New Zealand and overseas. understanding of New Zealand's diverse To join, contact Membership Services tollfree on 0800 802 010, culture, both yesterday and today. Make or enrol online at www.historic.org.nz them a highlight of your travelling plans! The NZHPT welcomes bequests and donations. Visitor Guide A visitor guide to New Zealand’s rich historic buildings and sites in the North Island.

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Photo: Old St Paul’s, Grant Sheehan The opening times published in this brochure were correct as of June 2011. www.historicplaces.org.nz