Golder Cottage

Golder Cottage
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General information
TypeHouse
Architectural styleVictorian
LocationUpper Hutt, New Zealand
Coordinates41°7′31.85″S 175°3′22.54″E / 41.1255139°S 175.0562611°E / -41.1255139; 175.0562611
Completed1876
Designated1991
Reference no.2891

Golder Cottage is one of the oldest surviving colonial houses in Upper Hutt, New Zealand. The house is used as a museum of colonial domestic life.

John Golder, a road builder in Wellington, built the cottage in 1876–77.[1] Around the same time he married Jane Martin and together they raised 12 children in the house. The cottage remained in the family for over 100 years until the Upper Hutt City Council bought the property. The Golder's Homestead Museum Society have since renovated the building and now manage the property.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Descendants". www.goldercottage.co.nz. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
  2. ^ "Golder's House". New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero. Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 16 April 2016.

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