Oldest Stone Store in NZ Photo

Photographer’s Note

The Oldest Stone Store in New Zealand

When you look at the history of New Zealand, you must remember that NZ was only inhabited by the “White Man” since early 1800’s, and by the Maori people only 700-800 years earlier.

This Stone Store was built in 1832-36 in Kerikeri, Northland, New Zealand as a storehouse for the Church Missionary Society's second Anglican mission to New Zealand. It is the oldest Stone Store in New Zealand.

Designed by Wesleyan missionary John Hobbs and built by an ex-convict stonemason from New South Wales, the Store was meant to house New Zealand mission supplies and large quantities of wheat from the mission farm at Te Waimate, 20kms away. When the wheat failed the building was mainly leased as a kauri gum-trading store. It then passed into lay missionary James Kemp’s family ownership, and from 1929 onwards was used mainly as a general store. Bought by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust in 1976, the building has undergone extensive conservation work.

The buildings contain relics and displays of their own history and are notable as scarce examples of Regency buildings in New Zealand.

www.kerikeri.co.nz/feature

efigesta, logios, pitai, jjbach, sheepie, elihesamian, nwoehnl, Refugee, ArtLook, sfirmston has marked this note useful

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efigesta (12181) 2005-11-07 4:59

Hi Janice, beautiful house and you capted in the perfeccion, good colors and great note, tks to share, manuel

logios (1889) 2005-11-07 5:37

Hi Janice,
It's a very very beautiful capture, with soft colors. The tree in backyard is amazing.Superb sharpness and POV and the notes very usefull.Well done
Regards
Ioannis

pitai (3925) 2005-11-07 5:40

Hi Janice, great composition, the colors are so great and the sharpness perfect, i like th house, regards, gabriel

jjbach (9101) 2005-11-07 19:21

Hi Janice,
Your composition is like a painting. Very nice colours and lighting and special sharpness, in order to have the beautiful details over the walls. Very well done!

Regards John

ktanska (16432) 2005-11-08 5:11

Hi Janice,
It is exactly like postcards you find on small communities, showing the only place of interest nearby... And I mean that in a good way, we should all be proud of our history.
Nice light, good angle and quite interesting piece of architecture.
Regards,
Kari

elihesamian (26091) 2005-11-08 14:41

Hi Janice!
what a nice interesting old store you show us,really interesting and good informative shot you create here,the white sky adds to the old touch of the atmosphere here,great texture of stones in the building you resulted,great sharpness and details and very well worked with a fine composition,Thanks for posting,
All the Best
M

nwoehnl (118) 2005-11-08 14:58

It makes a fine photo subject, Janice. A beautiful old structure that seems to be well preserved, and I like your carefully chosen shooting angle that fits the maximum amount of detail of this building into the frame. It seems you did some post-work to pronounce the contrast and it turned out very well on the building. Nice one.

oochappan (22026) 2005-11-08 22:59

Very well to show this old restored building, nicely captured with a good perpspective, very sharp textured on the stones, pleasant detail of this red postbox, well captured Janice.

carper (64194) 2005-11-10 14:00

very good photo Janice,
I like the oldest stone house in your country, very good lines in the shot, good low horizon, nice details against the backlight, good job,
gr. jaap

Refugee (2) 2005-11-13 16:52

So wonderful to see old buildings preserved in this way Janice, another thing NZ has in common with Tasmania. Nice capture, soft colours and once again a good choice of frame. TFS.
Regards
David

ArtLook (2332) 2005-12-23 1:22

Hi Janice,

Thank you for sharing the oldest building in NZ, it is looks very nice (cute) with styles of its windows, entrance anf roof. Very good contrast and composition. Thank you for your informative comment. Well done, Bravo!

With BEST regards
Arthur

PS: Merry Christmas to you!

sfirmston (88) 2006-02-06 22:29

Great shot, the amount of detail against such a bright background is amazing and the colour of the tree to the left is great as well. I also like the way the red letterbox stands out. Still want to take my wife up to Kerikeri as she has never been so hopefully I can take a shot as good as this one.

redred (111) 2008-09-17 14:44

Hi Janice,
I like the oldest stone house in your country,
very nice colours and lighting.
Well done.

Regards
Dana.