Caccia Birch House

Caccia Birch House is a home and a New Zealand Historic Places Trust Category I Historic Place. It is positioned at 130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand. Completed in 1892, it is named after William Caccia Birch and his spouse Maude, who proficient the assets to the government in 1941. The belongings, owned through Palmerston North City Council, is run by using the Caccia Birch Trust Board, and operates on a price-recuperation foundation. The Coach House Museum consists of snap shots of the property's preceding owners. The dwelling become designed for Norwegian settler Jacob Nannestad and his wife Anna.

In 1903, Englishman John Henderson Pollock Strang and his spouse Mary purchased the belongings and named it "Woodhey". It have become the brief house of the Governor-General of New Zealand, Lord Plunket, after a 1907 fireplace destroyed Parliament homes. In 1921, Caccia Birch purchased the belongings. In the Nineteen Thirties, a part of the belongings, the Hokowhitu Lagoon, was given to the Palmerston North City Council even as the relaxation of the assets was given to the government in 1941.