Photoprint for Sale: Richmond Cottage (1853), New Plymouth, New Zealand

This is an original photoprint from my personal collection

Size of image is 30cm x 46cm (12" x 18").

Price is $NZ 50.00 inc. urban p. and p. in NZ.

Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701.

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Photoprint for Sale: Old Timber Pioneer Cottage (1881), Carluke, Rai Valley, New Zealand

This is an original photoprint from my personal collection

Size of image is 30cm x 46cm (12" x 18").

Price is $NZ 50.00 inc. urban p. and p. in NZ.

Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701.

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Prints For Sale: Brancepeth, Wairarapa (1886-1905)

This print is identical to my original drawing done for Historic Places Magazine.

Size of image is approx. 27 cm x 46 cm.

Price is $NZ 95.00 inc. urban p. and p. in NZ.

Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701.

© DON DONOVAN. donovan@ihug.co.nz 
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Prints For Sale: Lisburn House, Dunedin (1865)

This print is identical to my original drawing done for my book 'New Zealand Odyssey' but not included.

Size of image is approx. 25 cm x 30 cm

Price is $NZ 51.00 inc. urban p. and p. in NZ.

Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701

© DON DONOVAN. donovan@ihug.co.nz
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Prints For Sale: Cob Cottage, Riverlands, Marlborough (1859)

This print is identical to my original drawing that appeared in my book 'New Zealand House & Cottage'. Size of image is approx. 28 cm x 38 cm .

Price is $NZ 85.00 inc. p and p in NZ.

Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701.

© DON DONOVAN. donovan@ihug.co.nz 
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Prints For Sale: Deans's Cottage, Christchurch (1844)

This print is identical to my original drawing that appeared in my book 'New Zealand House & Cottage'. Size of image is approx. 27 cm x 37 cm .

Price is $NZ 85.00 inc. p and p in NZ.

Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701

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Prints For Sale: Historic Cob Cottage, Waiau, N.Canterbury

This print is identical to my original drawing done for my book 'New Zealand House & Cottage' but not published.

Size of image is approx. 31 cm x 40 cm .

Price is $NZ 75.00 inc. p and p in NZ.

Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701.

© DON DONOVAN. donovan@ihug.co.nz 
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Prints For Sale: Dudley's Cottage, Arrowtown

This print is identical to my original drawing that appeared in my book 'New Zealand House & Cottage'.

Size of image is approx. 27 cm x 36 cm .

Price is $NZ 51.00 inc. p and p in NZ.

Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701.

© DON DONOVAN. donovan@ihug.co.nz 
www. don-donovan.blogspot.co.nz
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Prints For Sale: Isel House, Nelson

This print is identical to my original drawing that appeared in my book 'New Zealand House & Cottage'. Size of image is approx. 25 cm x 34 cm .

Price is $NZ 75.00 inc. p and p in NZ.

Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701.

© DON DONOVAN. donovan@ihug.co.nz 
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Prints For Sale: Fyffe House, Kaikoura (1860)

This print is identical to my original drawing that appeared in my book 'New Zealand House & Cottage'.

Size of image is approx. 32 cm x 25 cm .

Price is $NZ 95.00 inc. p and p in NZ.

Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701

© DON DONOVAN. donovan@ihug.co.nz 
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Prints For Sale: Langlois-Etevenaux House, Akaroa

This print is identical to my original drawing that appeared in my book 'New Zealand House & Cottage'.

Size of image is approx. 29 cm x 39 cm .

Price is $NZ 59.00 inc. p and p in NZ.

Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701

© DON DONOVAN. donovan@ihug.co.nz 
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Prints For Sale: Rhodes's Cottage, The Levels, Canterbury

 This historic early pioneer cottage is one of a very few thatched buildings in New Zealand. This print is identical to my original drawing that appeared in my book 'New Zealand House & Cottage'.

Size of image is approx. 23 cm x 31 cm .

Price is $NZ 50.00 inc. p and p in NZ.

Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701

© DON DONOVAN. donovan@ihug.co.nz 
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Prints For Sale: Clendon House, Rawene, Hokianga Harbour

Clendon House is one of the oldest houses in New Zealand. This print is identical to my original drawing that appeared in my book 'New Zealand House & Cottage'.

Size of image is approx. 23 cm x 19 cm .

Price is $NZ 49.00 inc. p and p in NZ.

Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701

© DON DONOVAN. donovan@ihug.co.nz 
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Prints For Sale: 'Cobblestone's' Museum Cottage, Greytown

This print is identical to my original drawing that appeared in my book 'New Zealand House & Cottage'. Size of image is approx. 20 cm x 24 cm .

Price is $NZ 49.00 inc. p and p in NZ.

Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz

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Prints For Sale: Entrance Lodge, Mona Vale, Christchurch

This charming 'gingerbread' house was built in 1905.

This print is identical to my original drawing that appeared in my book 'New Zealand House & Cottage'. Size of image is approx. 27 cm x 38 cm .

Price is $NZ 105.00 inc. p&p in NZ.

Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz

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N.Z. House & Cottage 23. Fyffe House, Kaikoura

I wrote and illustrated ‘New Zealand House and Cottage’. It was published in 1997. It’s a snapshot of some historic New Zealand homes - both grand and modest - as they were preserved at the end of the 20th century. I have decided to share some of the entries from the book from time to time on this blog

FYFFE HOUSE, KAIKOURA

Since before recorded history there were whales off Kaikoura. They mewed unmolested because Maori, who flocked to this coast for its fish and crayfish, had developed no technology that might harm them. But the whalers came in the early eighteen hundreds with their harpoons and flensing knives; the seas and beaches hereabouts must often have been a loathsome sight


Kaikoura’s first whaling station, the Wai O Puka Fishery, was established in 1842 by Robert Fyffe and John Murray in ‘Fyffe’s Cove’ (now called Armers Beach). Twelve years later Fyffe was joined by his cousin, George, who unexpectedly found himself in charge of farming and whaling operations when Robert drowned just a few weeks later.

The Fyffes’ house was built in three distinct stages. The first, a simple cottage, possibly built in the mid 1840s, was earlier known as Cooper’s House. Its construction materials were standard for the times: cob, lath and plaster, pit sawn native timbers and eucalypts. But it also had whale vertebrae for foundations!

By 1857, George had added a kitchen with a store room above; then, with his wife, Catherine, he continued the extension, at right angles to the old cottage, until they had, by 1861, completed the west wing of Fyffe House. Only two other families, the Goodalls and Lows, have owned Fyffe House since it was built. George Low bequeathed it to the New Zealand Historic Places Trust in 1981.

In the intervening years Kaikoura has grown into a flourishing tourist town and it’s difficult to picture life when it was a remote whaling station on a harsh and craggy peninsula below mountains whose snow lasts all summer.

These days Fyffe House and its genial resident curator, Bill Edwards, welcome visitors warmly while, out in the bay, the equally genial cetaceans are hunted by harmless whale-watchers with cameras.

© DON DONOVAN

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