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PHOTO: Carlile House
The United Church of Tonga is at a stalemate with Auckland Council over the destiny of 134-year-old Carlile House in Ponsonby. (Video first published in 2018) Read more: https://bit.ly/3xzLior
Carlile House in Auckland’s Grey Lynn is slowly crumbling away. Its owners, the United Church of Tonga, claim the land’s significance as home to the first Tongan congregation in New Zealand is being neglected by Auckland Council, in favour of its history as an orphanage, preventing the site from being developed. Stuff has previously reported on Auckland’s mysterious million-dollar dumps, including several which are publicly owned. Now, the landmark has been officially deemed dangerous.
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