75 Tinakori Road [133 Tinakori Road]

The gardens and home at 75 Tinakori Road, which was at the time of this photograph (1894) owned by the Bank of New Zealand Estates Company. It was occupied by Bank Manager Peter Thomas Jones Parfitt and his family until 1896 when they relocated to Sydney. Around this time the Bank of New Zealand put the property up for auction. 

Later known as 'Lednam', this house was lived in by the Beauchamp family of Katherine Mansfield for a short period and is described in her story The Garden Party. It is also where she was living at the time she wrote her first published story, His Little Friend. 

City-wide renumbering of streets beginning in 1908 led to this address being changed from 75 to 133 Tinakori Road. The house was eventually demolished during the first phase of the Wellington Urban Motorway construction.