Highwic - Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga

This guide to Highwic in Auckland follows Alfred Buckland, a Devon-born auctioneer who arrived with almost nothing and built one of colonial New Zealand's great fortunes, and the modest Carpenter Gothic house he raised here for his first wife Eliza in the early eighteen sixties. It traces her death in an upstairs bedroom in 1866, his remarriage soon after to a much younger Matilda, and the wings added onto the house across the following decades as the family kept growing. Look at the additions layered onto the house as you walk around it, one wing after another stacked on through the eighteen seventies and eighties.