Tauranga - The Elms / Tauranga Mission House

The missionary Alfred N Brown (1803-84) built a mission station known as The Elms in 1838 on a site he had bought from the Maoris. The house, with a small chapel and a small library in the garden, has survived almost unchanged. The garden front is particularly beautiful. The old trees, two Norfolk pines and an English oak, have grown to enormous size. Now a national monument, the house is furnished in period style.