Conservation Plan 2003

Conservation Plan McCahon House 67 Otitori Bay Road Titirangi for Waitakere City Council and McCahon House Trust

Graeme Burgess. Burgess and Treep Architects
Research: Tania Mace. Historian

Contents

Introduction and Methodology

Part One: Cultural Significance

The Development of Titirangi as a suburb Colin McCahon - the Titirangi years After McCahon Chronology Description of the House at 67 Otitori Bay Road Assessment of Heritage Value Statement of Cultural Significance

 

Part Two: Conservation Policy

Methodology Guiding Conservation Principles Implementation of Conservation Policy Summary of Conservation Policies

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Naomi McCleary and Paul Teutenberg of Waitakere City Council, for their assistance and support in this project.

During the draft stages of this report Jacqueline Amoamo, the former owner of the property, met with us at the house and spoke with us of her experience of living on the property. Without her guardianship of the place the task of recovering the feeling of the McCahon years would be impossible.

This year we are privileged to have walked through the property with William McCahon, and, on a separate occasion with Catherine and Victoria McCahon. Their memories of their time at Otitori Bay Road, related to us, at the house are invaluable.

Julian Rosenberg, who played on the property and was made warmly welcome by the McCahons as a young boy, has kindly allowed us to use photographs his father Gerhardt took at Otitori Bay Road and in Titirangi in the 1950's.

We also wish to thank the staff of the E.H. McCormick Research Library, of the Auckland City Art Gallery and the Hocken Library. Thanks also to Hamish Keith, for reading the draft of this document, and to Pat Hanly for his recollections of a day in 1957 spent on the deck at the house.

Related websites

ICOMOS: The International Council on Monuments and Sites The New Zealand Historic Places Trust: The country's leading heritage agency.