Wenderholm Regional Park

This guide to Wenderholm Regional Park north of Auckland follows the little house Robert Graham built and named in 1857, and the string of owners who hauled it to new sites, enlarged it and dressed it up over the following century. It traces the estate through a colonial magnate, a philanthropist who helped found Plunket, and the Couldrey family before Auckland's regional authority stepped in as developers circled in 1965. Listen for who once stood on this same lawn.