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The property remained in the Busby family until 1882, when it was sold to a local farmer. For at least some of the next few years it was used for agricultural purposes, including shearing sheep. It fell into disrepair, despite some efforts to bring it into public ownership. These were successful in
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Lovell-Smith, Melanie (2000) ‘History and Historic Places: Some Thoughts on History and Historic Places in New Zealand during the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries’, MA thesis, University of Auckland,
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The Treaty House was built in 1833–34 for Busby and his family. It is one of New Zealand's oldest surviving buildings. Originally the building consisted of two main rooms, plus an entrance hallway,
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Category I listed building since 1983. It contains a museum devoted to the Treaty and to life in the house in the mid nineteenth century. The grounds contain a carved
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in 1835. The house and grounds remained in private hands until 1932, when they were purchased by Governor-General
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of the Treaty signing, the house was modified to more accurately reflect what it would have been like in 1840.
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1932, when Bledisloe made his purchase, and the house was subsequently restored by leading architect
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The grounds had previously been the site of other important events, such as the signing of the
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Heritage New Zealand Category 1 historic places in the Northland Region
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Treaty House from the back, showing the two wings added in the 1840s
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in 1934, in a ceremony attended by thousands of people, both
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just prior to the Waitangi Day celebrations of 1934. The
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The Gift of Waitangi: A History of the Bledisloe Gift
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Recreation of the 19th-century interior of the house
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and donated to the nation. They were dedicated as a
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Convention of Kanagawa
Kanagawa Treaty House

Coordinates
35°15′57″S 174°04′54″E / 35.2658°S 174.0816°E / -35.2658; 174.0816
Heritage New Zealand – Category 1

Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe
Māori
Waitangi
Northland
New Zealand
British Resident
James Busby
Treaty of Waitangi
Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand
Viscount Bledisloe
national reserve
Māori
Pākehā
Māori King
Waitangi Day
verandah
William Henry Gummer
sesquicentennial
Heritage New Zealand
whare runanga
waka taua
Ngā Toki Matawhaorua
New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy

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