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Mansfield's family moved into the house in 1888. She was born on
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wrote of the apparently run-down state of this house and the condition of
Chesney Wold, their Karori house in 1958 (both then divided into flats). The Society bought this house after the death of the 91-year-old resident, Mrs Edward Pearce, in 1985.
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Thorndon, suffered "motorway blight". Wellington writer/journalist
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