Swan's Arch, in Henderson, is the second heritage site published on Tohu Heritage: a New Zealand Category 2 Historic Place, now captured in photorealistic 3D.
The arch was built slowly, by hand, over three decades by Henry Charles Swan, an English solicitor who sailed his yacht up Henderson Creek in 1900 and never left. He lived there alone for the rest of his life, tending an experimental orchard and building the arch that now bears his name. Its purpose was never recorded, and Swan never explained it. It has no door, no gate, and leads nowhere.
What survives is not a grand structure but a quiet, personal one: a mark left by one man's presence, shaped by hand over thirty years, in a place he chose for reasons he kept entirely to himself. You can explore Swan's Arch now.
