Alberton
100 Mt Albert Road, Mt Albert, Auckland
Tel: (09) 846 7367
Email: mailto:alberton@historic.org.nz
A large Victorian home with exotic Indian-style verandahs and
towers - contains 19th century furnishings and wallpapers.
Open: Wed-Sun 10.30am-12noon & 1pm-4.30pm. Closed Christmas
Day and Good Friday.
Alexandra Redoubt
Bellot Street, Pirongia
One of the best preserved earthworks of the New Zealand wars,
built when Pirongia was garrisoned during the Te Kooti campaigns.
The first redoubt was built by the Armed Constabulary in 1868,
around the church of St Saviour. The present redoubt was built in
1872 on the church site. The site can be viewed at any time during
daylight hours.
Antrim House
63 Boulcott Street, Wellington
Tel: (04) 472 4341
Email: mailto:information@historic.org.nz
An imposing Edwardian home (built 1905), now the headquarters of
the Historic Places Trust.
Open: Mon-Fri 9am-5pm. Closed weekends, public holidays and 25
December-3 January. Access is generally limited to the hallway,
boardroom & library.
Clendon House
8 Clendon Esplanade, Rawene
Tel: (09) 405 7874
Email: mailto:clendon@historic.org.nz
The Clendon family home (c.1860) for over 110 years contains the
family collection of silverware, fine china and other treasures.
Open: Nov to Apr, Sat-Mon 10am–4pm. Closed Christmas Day.
Edmonds Ruins
15 minutes from Kerikeri access from Edmonds Road via Cobham
Road and Inlet Road. The reserve is 250 metres from the road.
These are the remains of a stone cottage and out-buildings built by
John Edmonds and his family. Edmonds was a stonemason and the
cottage was built from1840 onwards using basalt boulders from the
area. The main house was destroyed by fire around 1885, however
the annexe continued to be occupied by the family until the 1950s.
The site can be viewed at any time during daylight hours.
Ewelme Cottage
14 Ayr Street, Parnell, Auckland
Tel/Fax: (09) 379 0202
Email: mailto:ewelme@historic.org.nz
The cottage (built 1863-64) of an early Auckland clergyman, with a
wealth of old family possessions on display and a charming oldfashioned
garden.
Open: Fri-Sun 10.30am-12noon & 1pm-4.30pm. Closed Christmas
Day and Good Friday.
Highwic
40 Gillies Avenue, Epsom, Auckland
Tel: (09) 524 5729
Email: mailto:highwic@historic.org.nz
An elegant family home (Gothic style) of a wealthy 19th century
Auckland businessman; begun about 1862 and later extended,
contains 19th century furnishings.
Open: Wed-Sun 10.30am-12noon & 1pm-4.30pm. Closed Christmas
Day and Good Friday.
Hurworth
906 Carrington Road, New Plymouth
Tel: (06) 753 3593
Email: mailto:hurworth@historic.org.nz
The first homestead (1855-56) of Taranaki pioneer Harry Atkinson
who later became Premier of New Zealand. It has an attractive
garden and contains period furniture.
Open: weekends 11am-3pm.
Kaipara North Head Lighthouse
Along Beach, north of Pouto (67km south-east of Dargaville)
Built in 1884 to guide ships crossing the bar at the mouth of the
Kaipara River. The light was manned until it became automated in
1947 and closed in 1952. The area is now an historic reserve.
Exterior viewing at any time during daylight hours. Take sunblock,
suitable clothing and water.
Kerikeri Mission House - Kemp House
246 Kerikeri Road, Kerikeri Basin
Tel: (09) 407 9236
Email: mailto:kkmission@historic.org.nz
New Zealand's oldest timber building (1821) and the oldest
surviving European building, built for the Church Missionary Society.
Open: Nov to Apr, daily 10am-5pm. May-Oct, daily 10am-4pm.
Closed Christmas Day.
Kerikeri Stone Store
Kerikeri Basin
Tel: (09) 407 9236
Email: mailto:kkmission@historic.org.nz
New Zealand's oldest surviving stone building (1832-36) built for
the Church Missionary Society to house Mission supplies and wheat
but mostly leased as a kauri gum trading and general store. It still
trades in frontier-related merchandise.
Open: Nov to Apr, daily 10am-5pm; May to Oct, daily 10am-4pm.
Closed Christmas Day.
Mangungu Mission House
Motukiore Road, Hokianga Harbour (3 kms west of Horeke)
Tel: (09) 401 9640
The Wesleyan Mission House, built 1839, was the scene of the
second signing of the Treaty of Waitangi on 12 February 1840.
There are early furnishings and mission items on display.
Open: 1 Feb-24 Dec weekends 12noon-4pm; 26 Dec-31 Jan daily
12noon-4pm. Closed Christmas Day and Good Friday.
Melanesian Mission Dining Hall
2 Tamaki Drive, Mission Bay, Auckland
Opened in 1859 as a training facility for Melanesians involved in the
Mission. The Mission was short lived in New Zealand, with its
headquarters moved to Norfolk Island. Leased for use as a
restaurant. The exterior may be viewed at any time.
Old St Paul’s
34 Mulgrave Street, Wellington
Tel: (04) 473 6722
Email: mailto:oldstpauls@historic.org.nz
A particularly fine timber Gothic church consecrated in 1866 and
later enlarged. Its superb interior has notable memorial windows
and brasses.
Open: daily 9.30am-5pm. Closed Christmas Day and Good Friday,
occasionally may be closed for private services and functions.
Opotaka
Te Ponanga Saddle Road, State Highway 47 between Turangi and
National Park
One of a series of Maori settlements along the edge of Lake
Rotoaira, where the remains of storage pits and house may be
seen.
The site can be viewed at any time during daylight hours.
Pencarrow Lighthouse
Pencarrow Head, beyond Eastbourne (8km walk along coastline)
This is New Zealand’s first lighthouse. The cast iron tower was made
in England and erected at the entrance to Wellington Harbour in
1859. The exterior can be viewed at any time during daylight hours.
Take sunblock, suitable clothing and water.
Pompallier
The Strand, Russell
Tel: (09) 403 9015
Email: mailto:pompallier@historic.org.nz
The Marist printery (built 1841) produced religious texts in Maori
and is New Zealand's oldest rammed earth and industrial building.
It is now a working museum where past methods of tanning,
printing and bookbinding can be seen.
Open: daily, Nov to Apr 10am–5pm; May to Oct, 10am-4pm. Closed
Christmas Day.
Rangiriri Battle Site
State Highway 1, Rangiriri (0.5 km north of township)
In 1863 one of the crucial battles of the Waikato campaign took
place at these fortifications. Battlesite Heritage Centre in the
township. The site can be viewed at any time during daylight hours.
Springvale Bridge
Taihape-Napier Highway, Rangitikei. Watch for the signpost, short
walk from the road.
Built to be practical and functional linking farming community with
town and port for their produce (meat and wool), the suspension
bridge is one a very few remaining examples of this type of
construction.
The bridge can be viewed at any time during daylight hours.
Taupo Courthouse and Redoubt
Taupo Domain
The Redoubt was established in 1869 by the Armed Constabulary
for defence against Te Kooti. No fighting took place here and it was
abandoned in 1885. A pumice magazine building still stands in the
redoubt. The hall nearby was opened by the Constabulary in 1881
as a theatre which was later converted to a courthouse. The site can
be viewed at any time during daylight hours.
Te Porere Redoubt
Highway 47, Tongariro National Park (26 km southwest of Turangi)
Earthworks of a Maori fort, built for musket warfare, which in 1869
was the site of one of the last major engagements of the campaign
against the famous warrior Te Kooti. The site can be viewed at any
time (7 mins walk from carpark) during daylight hours.
Te Waimate Mission House
344Te AhuAhu Road, Waimate North
Tel: (09) 405 9734
Email: tewaimate@historic.org.nz
The fourth Church Missionary Society Mission Station built in 1832.
Open: Nov to Apr, daily 10am-5pm; May-Oct, Sat-Mon and Wed
10am-4pm. Closed Christmas Day.
Te Wheoro’s Redoubt
Talbot Street, Rangiriri
After the Rangiriri battle a redoubt was built nearby to house a
British garrison. It is named after Wiremu Te Wheoro who occupied
the redoubt on behalf of the government in 1868–69 during the Te
Kooti campaigns. The site can be viewed at any time during daylight
hours.
Thames School of Mines
cnr Brown & Cochran Street, Thames
Tel: (07) 578 1219
Email: thamesschoolofmines@historic.org.nz
This complex of buildings contains a 19th century mining school,
experimental crushing plant and a mineralogical museum.
Open: Feb to Dec, Wed-Sun 11am-3pm; Jan daily 11am-3pm.
Closed Christmas Day and Good Friday.
Upper Hutt Blockhouse
McHardy Street, Upper Hutt (adjoins Heretaunga College grounds)
The only surviving wooden blockhouse, built in 1860, and later used
as a police station. It currently houses a service club. The exterior
can be viewed at any time during daylight hours.
Whangamarino Redoubt
Orams Road, State Highway 1, Meremere. Follow the track from
the gate and turnstile.
A redoubt built by the British Army in 1863.
The site can be viewed at any time during daylight hours.
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