Hillsborough

Hillsborough is an Auckland, New Zealand suburb. Hillsborough is underneath the neighborhood governance of the Auckland Council. According to the 2006 census, Hillsborough has a population of eleven,082. Hillsborough is a leafy suburb of great however largely unremarkable twentieth-century houses. The area is serviced through two purchasing regions; Onehunga and Three Kings. The region is served via secondary faculties Mount Roskill Grammar School and Marcellin College. Named for James Carlton Hill who left land to the City for use as public domain names in his 1858 will. The maximum exciting building in the area is Pah Homestead or The Pah. This constructing became constructed for James Williamson by way of Thomas Mahoney at the 313 acre property .

Pah Farm in 1877-nine. Of plastered brick inside the Italianate fashion it's miles primarily based upon Queen Victoria & Prince Albert's residence Osbourne House within the Isle of Wight. It changed into allegedly the biggest residence ever built in New Zealand and without a doubt one of the maximum expensive. Following the failure of Williamson's commercial enterprise worries after the Stock Market crash of 1886 the estate turned into gradually broken up and bought off. Various companies hooked up centers at the smaller but nonetheless spacious residences that resulted from the subdivision; a Franciscan Friary, Marcellin College for boys, Roskill Masonic Hospital, and Liston.