Designated 27-Jul-1988 Phone +64 4-499 5980 | Completed 1840, rebuilt 1866 Reference no. 1439 | |
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The thistle inn
The Thistle Inn is one of New Zealand's oldest public houses.
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Originally built in 1840, the Thistle Inn was rebuilt after a fire in 1866. Up until the reclamation of Wellington Harbour the building was only a few metres from the shoreline and patrons often arrived by boat, including, according to legend, the Ngati Toa warrior chief Te Rauparaha.
The Thistle Inn was featured in Leves Amores, a short story by Katherine Mansfield, written in 1907.
The building, is classified as a "Category I" ("places of 'special or outstanding historical or cultural heritage significance or value") historic place by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.
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