The Mangonui Hotel

The Mangonui Hotel is a prominent waterfront building of some considerable style which serves as a reminder of the importance of Mangonui as a commercial and administrative centre for over 100 years, when the upgraded roading system of the North caused many of these functions to be removed to Kaitaia. Together with its predecessors and former competitors, the Mangonui Hotel has played a key role in the social history of this once thriving settlement. 

Photo by Arthur Northwood around 1900

Built in 1905 the large timber building was built for a local publican named William J. Bray and is next to the courthouse and post office, it took it's licence from the earlier Settler's Hotel which was demoished inthe same year.

It has a relatively intact external appearance of a turn-of-the-century hotel. The architectural style of the accommodation has probably changed little over the years except for the upgrading of facilities. It is one of the best surviving small-town residential hotels of the period.

The hotel has a considerable townscape value as it dominates the main street and waterfront of the historic precinct, comprising the oldest part of Mangonui.

Some information taken from Heritage NZ.

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