Thistle Inn

Courthouse and Thistle Inn on Lower Mulgrave Street (circa 1843)

The Thistle Inn is a historic Wellington building and one of New Zealand's oldest pubs .

The 1840 building on Mulgrave Street was rebuilt after a fire in 1866. Until parts of Wellington Harbor were filled , the building stood only a few meters from the coast, and guests often came by boat. The chief Te Rauparaha is said to have been among them .

The Thistle Inn is featured in Leves Amores , a 1907 short story by Katherine Mansfield .

The building is registered as a Category I Monument by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thistle Inn. Historic Place Category 1. In: New Zealand Heritage List / Rārangi Kōrero . Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga , July 27, 1988, accessed September 23, 2019 . 

Coordinates: 41 ° 16 ′ 39.7 ″  S , 174 ° 46 ′ 46.6 ″  E