# List of historic places in Tauranga

Tauranga is a city and territorial authority in the Bay of Plenty Region of the North Island of New Zealand. The area around Tauranga Harbour was home to large Māori settlements during the precolonial era, while European presence began in the early 1830s as traders began settling its shores. It was the site of the British Tauranga campaign against the Māori in 1864, which resulted in the confiscation of Ngāi Te Rangi land and the establishment of a military settlement in the region. Increased European settlement came in the succeeding years, resulting in the founding of the town in 1873. It was incorporated as a borough in 1882 and a city in 1961.
Heritage New Zealand classifies sites on the New Zealand Heritage List / Rārangi Kōrero in accordance with the Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Act 2014. It distinguishes between Category 1 ("places of special or outstanding historical or cultural significance") and Category 2 ("places of historic or cultural significance"). Sites containing a number of related significant places are listed as Historic Areas. Additionally, sites important to Māori communities are given special classifications, including wāhi tapu for sites of spiritual, traditional, or ritual importance; and wāhi tūpuna for sites of ancestral significance. Thirty sites in Tauranga are included on the New Zealand Heritage List, including three Category 1 sites and seventeen Category 2 sites.

## Places

List of historic places in Tauranga :
| Name | Classification | Location | Constructed | Registered | List number | Notes |
| Te Pā o Te Ariki | Wāhi tūpuna | Maungatapu Road, Maungatapu | — | 2021 | 9852 | A Māori site associated with the Ngāti He hapū of the Ngāi Te Rangi. Contains the Maungatapu marae and Te Ariki pā. |
| Te Tāhuna o Rangataua | Wāhi tapu area | Rangataua Bay, Tauranga Central | — | 2019 | 9787 | A Māori area associated with the Nga Potiki hapū of the Ngāi Te Rangi. It contains Rangataua Bay. |
| Hopukiore, Moturiki, Motuotau and Te Toka o Marutuahu | Wāhi tapu area | Marine Parade, Mount Maunganui | — | 2010 | 9503 | Māori sites associated with the Ngai Tamawhariua hapū of the Ngāi Te Rangi. Contains Hopukiore (a hill), Moturiki (a tombolo), Motuotau (an island), and Te Toka o Marutuahu (an offshore rock). |
| Mauao | Wāhi tapu | Mount Maunganui | — | 2009 | 9423 | A Māori site associated with the Nga Potiki hapū of the Ngāti Apa. Contains Mauao and the surrounding peninsula and outcrops. |
| Te Roto Horua | Wāhi tapu | Taniwha Place, Bethlehem | — | 2010 | 9244 | Māori site associated with the Ngai Kahu hapū of the Ngāi Te Rangi. It contains a parcel of the bank and riverbed of the Wairoa River. |
| Pukehinahina | Wāhi tapu | Cameron Road and Church Street, Gate Pa | 1900 | 2008 | 7774 | A Māori site associated with the Ngāti Ranginui. It contains a tomokanga (carved gateway) memorial plaque and the St George's Chapel, built in 1900 to commemorate the Battle of Gate Pā. |
| Te Houhou Ki Wairakei | Wāhi tapu area | South Papamoa Beach Road, Papamoa | — | 2005 | 7641 | Māori site associated with the Nga Potiki hapū of the Ngāti Apa. It contains the pā Te Houhou and the site where the Ngati Tauwhao chief Hikareia was killed. |
| Tauranga Bond Store | Category 1 | 1 The Strand and Anson Street, Tauranga Central | 1883 | 2008 | 7738 | Built in 1883 as a warehouse and bond store, the building was owned by wholesale wine and spirits importers from 1908 to 1987, and has since seen various business tenants. It is the oldest remaining commercial building in Tauranga. |
| Kairua | Wāhi tapu Area | Kairua Road, Papamoa | — | 2000 | 7505 | Māori sites associated with the Nga Potiki hapū of the Ngāti Apa. It contains an archaeological complex including two pā, part of a larger regional pā system. |
| Papamoa No.2 Burial Reserve | Wāhi tapu Area | Maranui Street, Papamoa | — | 2002 | 7499 | Māori sites associated with the Nga Potiki hapū of the Ngāti Apa. |
| Elms Mission Station | Historic Area | Mission Street, Tauranga Central | 1838–1847 | 1993 | 7016 | A Church Mission Society mission in use from the 1830s to 1870s. Contains various mission buildings, alongside one of the oldest ornamental gardens in New Zealand. |
| Mangatawa | Category 2 | Mangatawa Lane, Te Maunga | — | 1994 | 6705 | A site of Māori cultural significance. |
| Military Camp & Old Stone Steps | Category 2 | Adams Avenue, Mount Maunganui | — | 1984 | 6404 | An archaeological site containing the remains of a 19th-century European militia and pilot station near Mauao. |
| Kinonui Pā | Category 2 | Pilot Quay, Mount Maunganui | — | 1984 | 6403 | A pā on the western slopes of Mauao associated with the Ngāti Pūkenga. |
| Pā | Category 2 | Mount Maunganui | — | 1984 | 6401 | A pā on Mauao associated with the Ngāti Pūkenga. |
| Maungawhare | Category 2 | 34 Parkvale Road, Tauranga Central | 1875 | 1983 | 4571 | A house built in Tudor design by Henry Stainforth Brabant in 1875. Originally known as "Woodhill", this name shifted to his second home (also a historic place) when he sold the site. |
| J. C. Adams Cottage | Category 2 | 4 Adams Avenue, Mount Maunganui | — | 1987 | 4570 | A summer home built by builder and politician John Cuthbert Adams. |
| Stone Jetty / Boulder Wharf | Category 2 | Mount Maunganui | 1888 | 1987 | 4569 | A jetty constructed in 1888 and opened in 1889 by Tauranga mayor James Bodell. It was the first wharf in Mount Maunganui. |
| Hotel St Amand | Category 2 | 105 The Strand, Tauranga Central | 1918 | 1987 | 4568 | A hotel designed in 1918 by Herbert Henry Clemson, featuring reinforced concrete supports and brick infill. It supported the adjacent port, now relocated. It is now used as a restaurant and hostel. |
| Native School and Hostel (former) | Category 2 | 83 Seventh Avenue, Tauranga Central | 1878 | 1983 | 4563 | A hostel in use from 1878 to 1956 to support visiting Māori from Mōtītī Island. It was assigned for use as a Māori community centre in 1963. |
| Post Office/Government Building (former) | Category 1 | 41 Harington Street, Tauranga Central | 1906 | 1983 | 4560 | An Edwardian Baroque post office and government building designed by John Campbell. Mainly brick construction, with cement and roughcast siding. Now used for offices and a bistro. |
| War Memorial Gates | Category 2 | Tauranga Wharepai Domain, 45 Cameron Road, Tauranga Central | 1921 | 1987 | 4567 | A set of gates at the entrance to the Tauranga Domain. Commemorates and lists the names of 91 soldiers who died in the First World War. |
| Foresters’ Hall | Category 2 | 155-159 Seventeenth Avenue, Tauranga Central | 1908 | 1987 | 4566 | Built in 1908 as the meeting hall of the Ancient Order of Foresters. It fell under borough council ownership in 1932, and was used by St John Ambulance and a local brass band. In 1989, it was moved to the Tauranga Historic Village. |
| Topcroft | Category 2 | Ranginui Road, Welcome Bay | 1870 | 1983 | 4565 | A house built for missionary Samuel Clarke in 1870. During the 1980s, it was moved from its original position on Edgcumbe Road to Ranginui Road. |
| Taiparoro | Category 2 | 11 Fifth Avenue and Devonport Road, Tauranga Central | 1882 | 1987 | 4564 | A timber house built in Carpenter Gothic style by John Cuthbert Adams in 1882. |
| House & Adjoining Shop | Category 2 | 405/407a and 664 Cameron Road,Tauranga Central | 1877 | 1983 | 2712 | A house and the adjacent Crabbe Grocery and Drapery Store were rebuilt in 1877 from an earlier store building founded ten years prior. After use by various buildings, the store portion was moved to the Tauranga Boys' College in 2002, where it is used as a uniform shop. |
| The Elms (dwelling), Kitchen Block and Dairy | Category 2 | 15 Mission Street, Tauranga Central | 1877 | 1983 | 2711 | The kitchen and dairy buildings of the Elms Mission Station. Although the mission was founded in the 1830s, the domestic service buildings were rebuilt after a fire in 1877. |
| Woodhill | Category 2 | 167 Grange Road, Otūmoetai | 1885 | 1983 | 795 | A domestic Gothic residence designed by Fitzgibbon Louch for Henry Stainforth Brabant. It replaced an earlier residence also initially named Woodhill. |
| Brain-Watkins House | Category 2 | 233 Cameron Road, Tauranga Central | 1881 | 1983 | 791 | A timber house built by boatbuilder Joseph Denham Brain in 1881. It was willed to the Tauranga Historical Society by his daughter in 1979, and converted into a house museum. |
| The Elms Mission House and Library | Category 1 | 15 Mission Street, Tauranga Central | 1838–1847 | 1983 | 30 | A timber house and library building. Built by missionaries in the area in the 1830s, they are the oldest surviving buildings in the Bay of Plenty Region. They sit on the grounds of the Elms Historic Area. |