One of Nelson's oldest residential buildings, Broadgreen House is located at 276 Nayland Road Stoke. The charming cob cottage was built in 1855 for Mr and Mrs Edmund Buxton, and their six daughters. In 1855 Mr Buxton, originally from Derbyshire, founded the firm 'E....

Isel House is an important Historic Home set in 4ha of park, consisting a number of NZ's oldest exotic tree species, and a collection of rhododendrons. The house, b.1849, is interpreted in layers of time, from a significant collection of original contents Victorian...

This handmade colonial cottage is built from locally pit-sawn totara slabs and was home to Charles and Matilda (Tilly) Turner and their four children from the early 1880s until 1909. Their life was typical of early pioneering families; Charles felled bush and worked...

Wrights Hill Fortress is a counter bombardment coastal artillery battery in the Karori suburb of Wellington, New Zealand. It was built between 1942 and 1947 and is predominantly underground, with numerous tunnels linking the war shelters, gun emplacements, magazines,...

Breathtakingly Beautiful – Wellington’s iconic Old St Paul’s is one of New Zealand’s greatest heritage places and one of the best examples of timber Gothic Revival architecture in the world. A ‘must-see’ experience on your visit to Wellington....

Rich in human history, the story of this area began with the arrival of the ancestors of today's Maori people. Hunting the southern right whale, Europeans arrived over sixhundred years later. Today this house, along with the stories it tells of a developing town and...

The Golder Cottage originally named "Straven Cottage" is one of the earliest pioneer homes of Upper Hutt. For those who like a glimpse of the past, Golder Cottage, is a window into the life in the 1870 - 1940’s. John orginally named it Straven Cottage because his...

A modest pit-sawn colonial cottage built in 1855, the home of Sir Harry Atkinson, four times Premier of New Zealand. It is the only farm house to survive the war of 1860s.

Our vision is to be an outstanding museum worthy of destination status. The collection of more than 50 vehicles includes gigs, phaetons, carts, drays, coaches and various items of farm equipment. Many of the vehicles have been completely restored and some are in...

The Lyttelton Timeball Station was a heritage-registered timeball station and prominent local landmark in Lyttelton, New Zealand. The station was significantly damaged by a series of earthquakes and aftershocks in 2010 and 2011, and finally collapsed on the 13 June...