Kaingahou

Historic Place Category 2 Register Number 1265 "Kaingahou" is a Maori word that translates to "New Home" (kainga means 'home' and hou means 'new'). The name was chosen by the first owner of the property, Ditlev Gothardt Monrad. The house is built entirely of New Zealand native timbers, a mixture of totara, rimu and matai. Specimens of these trees can be seen growing around the property, which is registered as a Category II Historic Place with the NZ Historic Places Trust. Kaingahou was built in 1903/04 by Ditlev Gothardt Monrad and his wife Kamma, on land that was part of the 'Scandinavian Settlement', where early pioneers from the Scandinavian countries had settled when they arrived in Manawatu in 1871. Ditlev was the grandson of the famous pioneer immigrant, Bishop D.G. Monrad, who had originally settled at Karere (a farming area just down the road) in the late 1860s.