Alberton (Auckland, NZ)

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Grand Victorian mansion now operated as a house museum by the NZ Historic Places Trust.
This romantic timber mansion began as a farmhouse in 1863 and was later expanded to 18 rooms, with fairy-tale decorative verandahs and towers. It was owned by the Kerr Taylors, a leading family in Mount Albert, until it was left to the New Zealand Historic Places Trust in 1972.

Allan Kerr Taylor was a landowner, investor and provincial and local body politician. His wife Sophia was an outspoken advocate of the vote for women, as well as a singer, gardener and mother of 10. She ran the estate for 40 years after her husband’s death, with her three unmarried daughters running it for a further 40 years.


www.historicplaces.org.nz/placestovisit/auckland/albert...
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Coordinates:   36°53'23"S   174°43'28"E
This article was last modified 13 years ago