PHOTO: KATHERINE MANSFIELD HOUSE AND GARDEN Katherine Mansfield House and Garden is situated in the Wellington suburb of Thorndon.
Refreshed, repainted and re-opened last Sunday after extensive work inside and out, this is the Thorndon birthplace and first home of our most famous and best-loved writer, respected world-wide for her beautifully-crafted short stories.
Built in Tinakori Road by her father, Harold Beauchamp, this modest two-storey house has gone through a number of alterations over the years, but is now restored as far as possible to how it looked when Katherine Mansfield lived here with three generations of her family, from 1888 to 1893.
READ MORE VIA STUFF