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Announcement

Residential and Civic Heritage Categories Are Now Live

Thiago Amaral16 July 2026

Tohu Heritage doesn't list a category until a real place fills it. Rather than showing empty categories with nothing behind them, each one activates only once a captured site belongs to it, so every category you see live on the map actually leads somewhere.

Today, two categories are open for the first time: Residential and Civic.

Residential: Kāinga

Historic homes, cottages, and domestic buildings where people lived: early colonial houses, villas, and family estates. This category is now live with Clark House, a Category 1 Italianate villa in Hobsonville built from experimental hollow ceramic blocks.

Civic: Hapori

Buildings built for everyone: town halls, courthouses, libraries, schools, and the shared infrastructure of public life. This category opens with Swan's Arch, a hand-built brick arch on a Henderson creek bank, raised over thirty years by one man.

Four categories remain closed for now: Māori Heritage, Commercial, Industrial, and Religious. Each will activate the same way, the moment a real place is captured and published. See the full list on the Heritage Categories page.

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