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New Zealand Historic Places Trust - Pouhere Taonga

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The New Zealand Historic Places Trust publishes a small range of  books about heritage and heritage places.  Advice on how to purchase any of these books is given below, with several are available directly through our Online Shop or contact the NZHPT's National Office for more information about purchasing any of these booklets.

Heritage Destinations (properties that the NZHPT cares for)

 Alberton booklet cover  Clendon House booklet cover  Highwic booklet cover

Alberton is one of the best preserved houses of the colonial elite in the Auckland region, showing the grandeur with which the wealthy led their lives, giving insights into domestic life and the respective roles of women, children and servants.

$8 plus p & p
Purchase from the ShopOnline 

A handsome colonial homestead nestling on the edge of a haunting landscape, Clendon House reveals a story of courage and determination, of interaction between Maori and Europeans, and how the fit survived to make this land their home.

$8 plus p & p
Purchase from the ShopOnline 

Built for one of Auckland's largest landowners, Highwic offers a glimpse of life for a large, well-to-do family at a time when colonial New Zealand was becoming firmly established.

$8 plus p & p
Purchase from the ShopOnline

Ewelme Cottage book cover Poetry book cover Pompallier booklet cover

Ewelme Cottage shares an eccelesiastical background with other NZHPT properties. Built by the first resident vicar of Howick, Vicesimus Lush, Ewelme Cottage remained a private family home, little altered, and secluded behind trees and fences from 1864-1968.

$5 plus p & p
Purchase from the ShopOnline

From Darkness to Light - a poetry book by Vivienne Plumb inspired by the Kerikeri Mission Station.

$20 plus p & p
Purchase from the ShopOnline

 

Much-loved Pompallier Mission is a much-visited icon in the Bay of Islands since it was acquired by the New Zealand government in 1943. 65 years of caring for, and learning to understand the heritage building and gardens have created a wealth of information that is condensed into this little book.

$15 plus p & p
Purchase from the ShopOnline

Historic places and driving guides

Landmarks Small City Big Heart book East Coast Driving Tours

Landmarks: Notable Historic Buildings of New Zealand is a celebration of New Zealand’s unique and diverse architecture – from the extravagant to the modest, the venerable to the sleekly moderne. A revised edition to coincide with the NZHPT's 50th anniversary.

$25 plus p & p ON SPECIAL
Purchase from the ShopOnline

Explore the built heritage of Gisborne’s commercial district in Small City, Big Heart.  Introduction by conservation architect, Jeremy Salmond.

Published by the NZHPT's Tairawhiti Branch Committee

$29.95 plus $1.55 p & p; discounts for bulk orders (5 or more).
Purchase from NZHPT's  Tairawhiti Branch Committee - using this order form (pdf).  

An exciting blend of Maori/Pakeha history, Historic Journeys describes three driving tours around the East Coast and provides interesting historical information based on sites, places and stories.

Published by the NZHPT's Tairawhiti Branch Committee

$14.95 + $1.55 p & p; discounts for bulk orders (5 or more). Purchase from NZHPT's  Tairawhiti Branch Committee - using this order form (pdf). 

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