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Acker's Cottage

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in his boat. He cleared the nearby land for cultivation in an area that is now called Acker's Point. Acker and his wife lived in this cottage until the late 1850s. Since that time it has been used as a smithy, storeroom, brewery and workshop.
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as an example of an early vernacular building. Built by Lewis Acker, it is the oldest whaling cottage in New Zealand and one of the earliest stone buildings on Stewart Island.
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woman, Mary Pui, and together they had nine children. After Acker retired from whaling, he built the cottage on Harrold Bay, Stewart Island. He quarried the stone at
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list of historic places (category I) and has been restored by Heritage New Zealand and the
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whaler, boatbuilder, trader, farmer and saw miller. He was born in
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Lewis Acker

Acker's Cottage is located in New Zealand
Vernacular
Leask Bay
Stewart Island
Coordinates
46°53′47.45″S 168°9′10.33″E / 46.8965139°S 168.1528694°E / -46.8965139; 168.1528694
Heritage New Zealand – Category 1
New Zealand
Stewart Island
Heritage New Zealand
Department of Conservation
New Zealand
New York City
Kai Tahu
Oreti Beach
Foveaux Strait


ISBN
978-1-78005-686-9


ISBN
978-1-4438-3036-2
"Lewis Acker"
Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
"Stewart Island: A lonely land of myth and wild wonders"

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