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 Kerikeri Stone Store 3 Edmonds Ruins 4 Pompallier 5 Te Waimate Mission 6 Clendon House 7 Mangungu Mission House 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 James Kemp, 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 Auckland 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 iwi, 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.