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Awesome staff and great food! Thumbs up to the chefs they were also amazing cooks. Will definitely come back to eat your food. Big thumbs up. Had my first experience at the butter factory today. The most amazing food, most friendly staff, fantastic service. And to top it off had the cutest smiles from the youngest member of the staff Ariel. Just past Jindyandy on the Greenwell Point Road was a ramshackle old building: holes in the walls where doors and windows used to be, roof rusted away, sheets of old tin propped up against walls.
Speculation by locals to the origins of the building were many and varied. Some said it was a jail, others claimed it was a huge house or mill, yet more said it was a dairy. The first owner of the building, James Harrison, and the builder Richard Keyte were both important figures in the early development of the town of Whangarei.
Harrison was a prominent businessman and entrepreneur in Whangarei who was involved in differing enterprises including butter making, furniture manufacturing and retail. Richard Keyte was the first undertaker and as well as building many early Whangarei residences and he was also the builder of the Whangarei hospital in Early dairy factories are significant for the important role they played in the economic development of New Zealand in the beginning of the twentieth century.
The Butter Factory Former is a rare example of a privately owned butter factory from the beginning of the twentieth century. There is only one other national example of a private butter factory listed with Heritage New Zealand, the North Kaipara Dairy Company The Butter Factory Former is locally rare being constructed of stone. This area of Bank Street is the former financial and banking centre of Whangarei.
The Butter Factory Former contributes to the streetscape and collection of heritage buildings because its architecture and its various functions as a building. The Butter factory Former is a building that was built to function as a butter factory and furniture manufacturing business. It is a rare representative example of a private butter factory as the economic model changed to co-operative factories at the end of the nineteenth century.
The building has contributed to the social life of Whangarei as it has at various times contained a tearooms, nightclub, wine bar and theatre rehearsal space. The site of the future butter factory lies at the base of basalt ridge above Whangarei Harbour, an area long occupied by Maori. Lava from the Hurupaki eruption formed an elevated ridge conducive to human settlement above the harbour and low lying swampy land. The coastal areas of the Whangarei Harbour were long occupied by Maori, evidenced by a range of features including pits, terraces, shell middens, cultivation sites, burials and pa.
The site of the future butter factory lies within an area of significance to Maori being a pa, and a place to haul up waka. Directly opposite were two named sites. The first of which, Pihio Pa, occupied a steep-sided, long ridge above the harbour affording defence and the option to disappear if necessary into the hinterland. Approximately metres to the north was He Unga Waka, where waka could land enabling the occupants to climb up to the pa.
Tipene had his village at Pihoi on the high land above the present Town Basin and extending along the north side of the harbour. In colonial times the wider location was the site of meetings between rangatira and missionaries and the place where the first chapel was built in the Whangarei area. On 8 December , Colenso went up the harbour in the ships boat and stayed with Tipene at his pa at Pihoi.
Colenso paid five visits to Whangarei and in April , a timber chapel was built by Maori that Colenso identifies as Abraham, Steven and the chiefs. William Carruth, a Scots settler, purchased just over hectares from Ngati Kahu in , encompassing much of the future commercial area of Whangarei. Pihoi Pa and He Unga Waka were extensively modified by the development of the colonial town and from the mid nineteenth century the swampy scrub land between the basalt ridge and harbour was gradually cleared, drained and filled.
By , there were four European settler families with homes on the west bank of the Hatea River: the Petingales, Dents, Mairs and Holmans. In , Edward Dent bought land from Pertingale and established a store at the intersection of present day Cameron and Bank Streets. A road ran up Scoria Hill to what is now Bank Street. General storekeeper James Harrison, who went on to become a significant businessman and entrepreneur in the Whangarei district, bought the property in Born in Durham, England, Harrison had migrated to New Zealand in , initially settling in Coromandel, and then moving with his wife Hannah to Whangarei in circa Harrison brought a number of hand-operated cream separators from Britain which he gave to local suppliers.
In return, they provided cream for butter manufacture, a notably different system from the communal cream skimming stations that traditionally supplied butter factories. This was a period of rapidly increasing butter manufacture; there were four local dairy factories in production in Whangarei by November , with Harrison and Sons shipping just over eight tons in October.
In , Harrison commissioned construction of a new building. The design intended to provide for retail and manufacturing activities incorporating a butter factory on the bottom storey.
Attributes commending the Bank Street site included the availability of good quality basalt building stone. The basalt was a durable, fireproof and thermally stable construction material that was able to keep the building cool during the summer - vital for butter production. A ready supply of clean artesian water was available from a spring on the property, and a nearby stream enabled transportation of the finished product by punt to the Hatea River for loading from the harbour onto refrigerated vessels destined for Auckland.
The location was also comparatively close to road junctions from the rural hinterland; and to the Bank Street railway station providing for local freight, although the line was not completed to Auckland until Construction of the butter factory was the work of local Whangarei building contractor Richard Keyte, who may also have been the designer.
He used the natural materials that were available, the basalt that was laid in regular courses and the beams and columns constructed of Northland kauri. The use of basalt was uncommon in Whangarei but the construction of the building was influenced by the natural supply of stone at the building site. The bottom storey functioned as a butter factory while the rest of the building was used as a furniture factory and retail showroom.
The Bank Street entrance functioned as a showroom for furniture that was manufactured in the building. The rear of the building was Italianate in style with simple windows and the two top storeys brick cement rendered to a smooth finish. There was a contrast in design between the front of the building for retail and the rear of the building Butter Factory Lane for manufacture. Following completion of the Bank Street factory equipped with the most up to date appliances, Harrison closed his Kauri Dairy Factory and made his butter in Whangarei.
The brand name of the butter was Mana and hence the name Mananui Building.
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