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New Zealand Historic Places Trust

Visit New Zealand's heritage sites

Historic places have powerful and provocative stories to tell.  NZHPT's properties are authentic, in their original settings and form a network of places important to our national identity.  The places of significance to our many peoples help us to remember, to learn, to belong and share our stories.  Inspiring and beguiling - experience our history right where it happened.

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Cob Working Bee

Sunday 12 February, from 9.30 am

The Canterbury Cob group are working on the restoration of an 1860s cob cookhouse at The Point in Hororata. Come and join in.

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Auckland's Own Art Deco Day Out

Sunday 25 March 1 -6 pm

Get out your 20s gear, pack a picnic and head down to Highwic for an Art Deco picnic.

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Stone store shop. Join Us.
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New Zealand's first permanent lighthouse, Pencarrow is a cast iron building first lit on 1 January 1859. Its first keeper was Mary Jane Bennett, New Zealand's only female lighthouse keeper. The light, at first colza oil, and then kerosene, was discontinued in 1935.

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Item from the Collections

Table at Mangungu Mission

This mahogany table belonged to John Hobbs, founder of the mission station at Mangungu that overlooks the Hokianga Harbour. It is basic in design, yet its simple form belies its witness to a founding moment in New Zealand history.

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Story from the Archives

Mangungu - Treaty commemorations

Although firmly and forever associated with Waitangi, the Treaty that bears its name was signed at many sites around the country. The signing at Mangungu Mission House near Horeke is notable for being that at which more people added their names to our founding document than any other. Today, Mangungu is notable as the focus for a remarkable act of commemoration.

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