Kerikeri Mission House
The Mission House (also Kemp House ) at 218 Kerikeri Road in Kerikeri is the oldest surviving building in New Zealand, built in 1822 . It is located at the confluence of the Kerikeri River and Kerikeri Inlet , an inlet of the Pacific.
The house was part of the Church Missionary Society's Kerikeri mission station . Samuel Marsden founded an Anglican mission to New Zealand with lay preachers in the Bay of Islands under the protection of the chief of NGAPUHI , Hongi Hika , stood. This was based in the on the other side of the Waikare Inlet located Pā the NGAPUHI in Kororipo, later Russell . In November 1819 Marsden bought 13,000 acres (53 km²) of land from the Ngāpuhi .
Marsden instructed Reverend John Butler to set up a mission station at Kerikeri under the protection of Ngāpuhi Pā . Marsden, Thomas Kendall and Hongi Hika then left New Zealand for Great Britain. With the help of the Māori and European experts, Butler built the Mission House by 1822, although construction work was disrupted by the return of Kendall and Hongi Hika with a thousand muskets , after which Kororipo served as the basis for a Ngāpuhi campaign in the Musket Wars .
Butler's house was a boarded, two-story Georgian building with a porch and two chimneys. It was built mainly from Kauri wood , the shingles came from Australia. In 1843 the veranda was replaced by a larger one. In the 1920s, a bathroom was added behind the kitchen.
Butler was fired in 1823 and George Clarke lived in the house until the early 1830s. At that time the Ngāpuhi dan Pā Kororipo had left, but the mission station felt strong enough to do without a protective power. James and Charlotte Kemp moved into the house in 1832. It was later bought by the Kemps and was family owned for 142 years until Ernest Kemp donated it to the New Zealand Historic Places Trust in 1976 .
The New Zealand Historic Places Trust has dismantled the building to its condition from around 1843 (although the porch is higher and the roof is not clapboard). The Mission House is accessible as a museum together with the Stone Store . It was registered as the second architectural monument in the country.
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Mission House
Mission House at the mouth of the Kerikeri River .
Back with the garden
Name tag that indicates that it has been owned by the Kemps for many years.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Things to Do in the Bay Of Islands . Jason's Travel Media . Retrieved February 16, 2015.
- ^ Page of the NZHPT on the monument "Kerikeri Mission House"
Coordinates: 35 ° 13 ′ 4.8 ″ S , 173 ° 57 ′ 46.8 ″ E