List Of Category 1 Historic Places In Auckland
The List of category 1 historic places in Auckland contains the category 1 heritage sites and buildings from Auckland registered in the New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero (formerly the Register) as ''Historic Place Category 1'' or ''Historic Area''. This list is maintained and updated by Heritage New Zealand (aka ''Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga'', initially the ''National Historic Places Trust'' and, from 1963 to 2014, the ''New Zealand Historic Places Trust''). The heritage buildings and areas in Auckland classified as ''Historic Place Category 2'' are listed in the List of category 2 historic places in Auckland. List See also * List of category 2 historic places in Auckland * List of historic places in Wellington * List of historic places in New Plymouth References Bibliography * New Zealand Heritage List', Heritage New Zealand External links

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Auckland
Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The List of New Zealand urban areas by population, most populous urban area in the country and the List of cities in Oceania by population, fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region—the area governed by Auckland Council—which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of . While European New Zealanders, Europeans continue to make up the plurality of Auckland's population, the city became multicultural and Cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan in the late-20th century, with Asian New Zealanders, Asians accounting for 31% of the city's population in 2018. Auckland has the fourth largest Foreign born, foreign-born population in the world, with 39% of its residents born overseas. With its large population of Pasifika New Zealanders, the city is ...
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Highwic House Above Newmarket NZ
Highwic is a 19th-century house in Auckland, New Zealand, which is listed by Heritage New Zealand as a Category I structure. The house was built in 1862 for Alfred Buckland, a wealthy colonial settler and landowner. The building sits in an elevated position above Newmarket. Origin and construction Highwic is a large house of Carpenter Gothic design that was built for a wealthy colonial settler and landowner, Alfred Buckland. The building was erected in an elevated position looking out over the township of Newmarket. In 1861, the land was purchased by Alfred's first wife Eliza for £1,000. The family with seven children, moved into the house in 1862. Eliza Buckland had two more children during her short time alive in her new house, she died of pneumonia in July 1866. The original eight room house was extended in 1874, 1883 and 1884 as the Buckland family grew bigger and their wealth increased. Alfred Buckland married Matilda Jane Frodsham in May 1867. Matilda was twenty years ...
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Alberton In Auckland
Alberton may refer to: Australia * Alberton, Queensland, a rural locality in the City of Gold Coast * Alberton, South Australia * Alberton, Tasmania * Alberton, Victoria Canada * Alberton, Ontario * Alberton, Prince Edward Island New Zealand * Alberton, Auckland, a colonial house in Mount Albert, Auckland, registered as a Category I heritage item with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust South Africa * Alberton, Gauteng United States * Alberton, Maryland * Alberton, Montana Alberton is a town in Mineral County, Montana, United States. The population was 452 at the 2020 census. Alberton was the location of a major chlorine chemical release in 1996. Alberton is the home of Northwest Indian Bible School, a Bible-train ...

Old Arts Building, University Of Auckland
The ClockTower, University of Auckland is a New Zealand Category 1 Historic Place built from 1923 to 1926 and was formally known as the Old Arts Building. History The ClockTower at the University of Auckland was designed by Roy Alstan Lippincott, a Chicago-trained architect and brother-in-law of Walter Burley Griffin. In 1921, Lippincott and draughtsman Edward F. Billson won the competition for the design of the then Auckland University College Arts Building out of 44 entries. It was then constructed between 1923 and 1926 by Fletcher Construction Co. The construction was largely funded by a central government grant with additional public subscriptions. The building has housed departments of Arts, Architecture, Law, Music and the Library as well as the University Hall, and limited student amenities in the rear wing. Architecture The building consists of a main block with the famous clock tower that it is known by, and a connecting wing on the rear. They were carried out ...
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NZ AK Selwyn Library (1)
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island country by area, covering . New Zealand is about east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. In 1840, representatives of the United Kingdom and Māori chiefs signed the ...
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