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Ayr Street


Kinder House and Ewelme Cottage are two historic and reputedly haunted houses on Ayr Street, in the suburb of Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand. Because of the claimed hauntings, the two historic homes were visited by a team of paranormal investigators in 2005 and featured on Ghost Hunt, a New Zealand television show.

Location: 36°51′43″S 174°46′57″E / 36.861982°S 174.782409°E / -36.861982; 174.782409

Kinder House, sometimes known as "The Headmaster's House" was built in 1857, commissioned by Bishop G. A. Selwyn and designed by Frederick Thatcher, architect of many Anglican buildings in Auckland. The house is a Gothic-style, double-storey mansion built of grey volcanic stone quarried from nearby Mount Eden.

The house was the residence of London-born John Kinder, a former teacher, painter, photographer and reverend of the local Church of England Grammar School. He occupied the house with his wife and the six children of his brother Henry Kinder, who was murdered by John's sister-in-law and her lover. The house was opened to the public as a gallery in 1982. The house is also used for wedding receptions and other functions.

It is claimed that the house is haunted by the apparition of a man. In 2012, leading landscape photographers from New Zealand and internationally exhibited New Zealand landscape photography at a special Kinder House-based exhibition organized by the Contemporary Photography Foundation, during the Auckland Festival of Photography. Photographers involved winners of the Landscape Photographer of the year for both Australia and New Zealand.


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