– White house on golf course
Gum Digging House
Place Category: Historic and Historic todo
– White house on golf course
– Possibly wrongly placed CHI marker that should be 733 ? – Rear of section. Claimed to be 1870s in supporting documents – on part of larger double site purchased from the Crown in 1883, subdivided from early 1900s. House appears to be half the size in 1959 aerial, and is indistinct Read more [...]
Todo [Dawn Ellis][Ian Hutchinson]
– were about 4 or 5 up there. – Workers home for filter stn. [Dawn Ellis]
– Burton’s old homestead [Dawn Ellis]
– 1900s villa/cottage. Same land history as 749 Swanson – Scheduled (UID 68)
– Old house made of kauri – Build 1917 – New extension put on top of it – Native trees planted around 1920’s in front of house [Dawn Ellis]
This house is behind the butcher’s shop and situated on the original Calvert block. It was built in the late 1920s as the home for the Calvert family.
