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Acacia Cottage is located in Cornwall Park in the Auckland suburb of _______. It was the first home of former Mayor Sir John Logan Campbell

historic building- heritage listed category 1

Built in 1841

Significance- earliest surviving timber building in country

four rooms

Georgian design

"THE OLDEST HOUSE IN AUCKLAND- It is built of heart of kauri, and erected on an allotment in O'Connell Street, purchased by Messrs, Brown and Campbell, at the first saleof Auckland town lots, on the 19th April, 1841. The blocks were laid for its erection on the 10th June 1841, and it was first the private residence of Mr. William Brown, afterwards occupied by the junior partner, then by the senior and junior clerks, but now for many years by the firm's head storeman. It looks as good for another forty-four years in the future as it has proved good for that peiod in the past."

- New Zealand Herald, 24 December 1885, Page 20