Henderson's Mill Cottage, the oldest building still standing in Henderson, is now the fifth heritage site published on Tohu Heritage, captured in photorealistic 3D.
The cottage began as the cookhouse for Thomas Henderson's water-powered timber mill, built around 1849 on a site above today's location. By 1875 it had become a schoolroom, and later still a four-room family cottage, gaining further additions through the 1930s.
In 1993 the A K and N A Corban Family Trusts gifted the building to Waitakere City Council, and it was shifted downhill to its present site on Sel Peacock Drive. Since 1994 it has served as the headquarters of the West Auckland Historical Society, standing alongside a working replica of Henderson's original waterwheel. You can explore Henderson's Mill Cottage now.
