Pompallier House (Russell, N.Z.)

Date: 8 Oct 1993 - 08 Oct 1993

By: Clunie, Fergus, active 1985-1994

Reference: OHColl-0155/1

Description: Fergus Clunie was Director of the Fiji Museum until the mid 1980s when he came to New Zealand and worked on a King Country farm. He became curator of Pompallier House, which was in dire structural trouble, in early 1988. The Trust (Historic Places Trust) wanted to resolve problems with the building. Refers to Alan Nixon, chief engineer for the Works Consultancy, Ruth Ross, Pompallier House historian, Mr Wilson, project manager, and Jeremy Salmond, conservation architect. Gives details of restoration and describes the goal of achieving a self-generating income for the building compatible with the building's history. Interviewer(s) - Gerry Brackenbury Venue - Russell Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005462 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1. 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete Transcript - Ab 1081.

Date: 1954 - 1955

By: Lee-Johnson, Eric Albert, 1908-1993

Reference: A-260-029/035

Description: Sketches of historic buildings Quantity: 7 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photographs of pencil drawings 303 x 255 mm Provenance: Donated by Historic Places Trust (See TL 3/1/1/4, 24 Sep 1969)

Date: ca 1900s

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 17

Reference: PAColl-7489-90

Description: Elevated view of Russell with Pompallier House in the foreground, other buildings along the waterfront and the wharf in the distance next to the hotel. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1977 - 1978

By: Coy, Robert, active 1970s

Reference: A-017-007

Description: Shows Pompallier House amongst trees. Reproduction of original signed pen and ink drawing dated 1977 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, b&w 230 x 300 mm

Date: 1955 - 1969

By: New Zealand Historic Places Trust; Lee-Johnson, Eric Albert, 1908-1993

Reference: E-279-q-051

Description: Postcard showing Pompallier House, Russell from a painting by Eric Lee-Johnson, 1955. Built in 1841-1842 as the printing house of the Catholic Mission of Bishop Pompallier; later a private house. Administered by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 110 x 150 mm

Date: [Between 1893 and 1920]

From: Duncan, Russell James, 1855-1946 :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-142

Description: Photographs taken by Russell Duncan, dated 1893, 1903, 1910, 1914 and 1920. Images show places of historical interest in the Bay of Islands, Dusky Sound, and the Bay of Plenty. Included are views of John Fox's house at Paihia; William Busby's house at Waitangi; the Kemp House; the Stone Store at Kerikeri; the site of Governor Hobson's house at Okiato; Bishop Pompallier's house at Russell; the site of the Roberton House on Motuarohia Island, where Mrs Roberton (wife of Captain Richard Roberton), her two children, a Māori-Pākehā boy, and a man-servant were killed on 20 November 1841, and their house burnt; and the last post standing at Te Heu Heu's Pa (Waitahanui Pa) at Taupo. Several views follow of areas in Dusky Sound, and one of Sulphur Bay on Whale Island, Bay of Plenty. Contains index at the beginning of the album, with historical notes hand-written beneath each image. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green album with darker green spine and corners; lettering on spine `Photographs. Places of historic interest. Photos taken and presented by Russell Duncan. Nos. 91-106', 26 x 31 cm Processing information: Description updated 19 September 2023 following information provided by a staff member.

Date: 1956-1957

By: Cole, John Reece, 1916-1989

Reference: PAColl-6504

Description: 7 photographs of the restored Pompallier House, Russell, Bay of Islands and 2 of the house owned at one time by Captain Mayhew, the first American Consul for New Zealand, at Orongo Bay, Bay of Islands. The photographs were taken 1956-1957. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1973

By: Siers, James 1936-2013; New Zealand Historic Places Trust

Reference: Eph-D-HISTORY-NZHP-1973-04

Description: Poster showing a photograph of the exterior of Bishop Pompallier's house and printery. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 490 x 685 mm.

Date: 1991, [1970s-1990s]

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11698

Description: Transparencies of houses in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the name or brief description, and/or the location, of the house. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title transcribed from item. Many slides are not dated. Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, plastic case labelled 'North Island Houses'. The arrangement was by location of house, approximately from North to South. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: 1977

From: Stratford, Peter : Epsom Trust collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11750-54

Description: A signed typescript document titled `Recollections of Pompallier House and Turangawaewae' by John Stacpoole. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0 Linear Metres.

Date: 1955-1971

From: Beaglehole, Timothy Holmes, 1933-2015: Papers of John Cawte Beaglehole and his family

Reference: MS-Papers-11535-133

Description: Folder comprises papers relating to projects and campaigns of the Trust Includes J C Beaglehole's first report (on a visit to Auckland and the Bay of Islands in 1943) to the Under-Secretary for the Department of Internal Affairs; papers relating to Pompallier House and to buildings at Waimate North; correspondence and papers of the Movement to Save St Paul's (from 1959) and a printed submission from the Society for the Preservation of the Cathedral Church of St Paul to the National Historic Places Trust (1955); an article - `Private property or national interest' - written following the visit of Professor Nicolaus Pevsner; research notes and photocopies of Trust business from 1955 to 1964). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter

Date: 1933-1935

From: Cowan family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11946-087

Description: Published by A H and A W Reed, 1935. Also includes a letter, dated 28 January 1934, from an unknown author who resided at Otorohanga, who was related to the Mair and Greenway families. The letter writer speaks of growing up in Russell, at Bishop Pompallier's house, which according to the writer was 'a ruin - before we lived in it'. Also includes clippings of articles relating to the Mair family, dated 1933. The book contains a handwritten message to James Cowan written from the author, dated 1935. The author was nee Lavinia Laura Mair. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 1 folder(s). Physical Description: One volume with a folder containing clippings and a letter

Date: 1976 - 1989

By: A H & A W Reed (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-POSTCARDS-Kerse

Description: A selection of unannotated cards from an album, that was dismantled. The cards are now numbered and listed below in the order in which they appeared in the album (roughly in geographical order from north to south). Some cards which contained family-related annotations on the verso were returned to the donor: 1. Waitangi Treaty House. Photograph L Johnstone 2. Waitangi Hotel, bridge Pa and Museum of Shipwrecks, Northland. Photo Lyric Studios Auckland 3. Flagpole, Treaty House Waitangi. Photograph and printing by Fotocentre, Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand 4. Oldest stone and wooden buildings in N.Z., Kerikeri. Photograph and printing by Fotocentre, Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand 5. Paihia, Bay of Islands. Photograph and printing by Fotocentre, Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand 6. Williams Memorial Church Paihia, bay of Islands, New Zealand. Photograph and printing by Fotocentre, Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand 7. Maori meeting house, Waitangi, Bay of Islands, New Zealand. Photograph and printing by Fotocentre, Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand 8. Interior Maori meeting house, Waitangi. Photograph and printing by Fotocentre, Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand 9. Russell, Bay of Islands, N.Z. Photography Norm Pumfleet 10. Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Russell Bay of Islands [replica of 'Endeavour' at 1/5 size) 11. Historic Anglican Church, built 1835. Russell Bay of Islands. Photograph and printing by Fotocentre, Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand 12. Pompallier House, Russell, N.Z. Photograph by James Sears 13. Wagener Museum, Houhora, Northland. Photograph Robert Wells. Published and distributed by A H and A W Reed 14. Wagener Museum, Houhora, Northland. Photograph and printing by Fotocentre, Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand 15. Houhora Hotel Northland. Photograph Lyric Studios. Published and distributed by A H and A W Reed 16. Waitiki Landing, Northland. photograph J Munk. Published and distributed by A H & A W Reed 17. Sheep farming New Zealand. Photograph and printing by Fotocentre, Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand 18. Cape Reinga Lighthouse settlement. Photograph Robert Wells. Published and distributed by A H & A W Reed 19. Te Paki Stream, Northland. photograph J Kissling. Published and distributed by A H & A W Reed 20. Crossing a stream on Ninety Mile Beach. Photo by Carl Perham; produced by SceniColour, Whakatane 21. Cape Reinga Lighthouse and signpost, Northland. Photograph and printing by Fotocentre, Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand 22. Tauranga Motel. Published by Graham Powell, Pakuranga, Auckland, N.Z. 23. Sandown Park Motor Hotel, Childers Road, Gisborne, New Zealand. Logan Print Ltd Gisborne 24. High jumping dolphins thrill the crowds at Marineland of NZ, Napier NZ. M 19, a "Marineland" viewcard. Sole distributors Napier Development Association. "Colorprint" process by Martin Printing Co. Ltd., Napier, N.Z. 25. Churchill Heights, New Plymouth NZ. Logan Print Ltd Gisborne 26. Farming, Tasman Valley NZ. Produced by Pictorial Publications Ltd., Hastings New Zealand 27. Fox Glacier South Westland, N.Z. taken from Clearwater. Colourchrome series. Photography Gladys M Goodall. Printed by Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. 28. The Chalet Restaurant, Arthurs Pass, NZ. Photo John F Allen, PO Box 19675, Woolston, Christchurch 29. Greetings from Akaroa, N.Z. Printed for "The Sea Chest", Akaroa. Quantity: 29 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photographs and photolithographs, sizes varying around 100 x 140 mm. Provenance: Donated by Jocelyn Chalmers, Wellington. Donor is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Kerse.

Date: 1948

From: Knight, Cyril Roy 1895-1972 :Residence of Bishop Pompallier, Russell, 1943-1948.

By: New Zealand. Ministry of Works. Architectural Division

Reference: Plans-80-2277

Description: Section plan with the Russell waterfront to the left, showing Pompalier House, the layout of its gardens and a planting plan for native trees and shrubs. Possibly drawn up by the Ministry of Works Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, 538 x 734 mm

Date: January 1959, January 1960

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7619

Description: Transparencies of Russell, taken January 1959 and January 1960 by Whites Aviation. Includes views of the 'Kewpie Too' and Pompallier House. Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: [1970-1980]

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection

Reference: 85-080-10/11

Description: Also includes brochures relating to ACC and self-employment Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: ca 1920

Reference: PAColl-6558

Description: Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: One print housed at PAColl-5744-26..

Date: 1845

From: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph 1824-1886 :Book of New Zealand sketches. Purewa, 1845, 1860.

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886

Reference: E-137-q-012/013

Description: An extensive view of the Bay of Islands, with various features noted, including the flagstaff above Kororareka (Russell), the Roman Catholic chapel standing on its own on the hill and Bishop Pompallier's house, all seen in the distance. The panorama is continued on the next page (E-137-q-014) Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title in ink in the artist's hand. Also across the top, in another hand, in pencil 'An excellent view of the ground about Kororareka taken from Paihia Wh... that the plan in the Illustrated London news is ... from brig. The sketch then was ... vol. of ... [last words partially erased, several words illegible] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, across two pages, 220 x 571 mm

Date: [ca 1900s-1920s]

Reference: 1/4-028822

Description: Copy negative of a photograph of Pompallier House from the front. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass copy negative

Date: 1944

From: Hill, Perry Martin, 1926-2005 :[Architectural plans. 1960-1990s]

By: Knight, Cyril Roy, 1893-1972

Reference: Plans-2007-030-0518

Description: Shows ground and first floor plans, elevations, and one cross section. Collected by architect Martin Hill as part of Project 787. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Sepia photographic print, 480 x 820 mm. (2 pieces each 480 x 420 mm taped together)