Hutt Minoh Friendship House

Hutt Minoh Friendship House has a board room which can be configured in most formats and seat up to 20 delegates.

There are two other break out rooms and on fine days the myriad of paths and gardens offer unique opportunities for outdoor meetings.

For bookings and further information contact:

Hutt City Council
Ph: +64 4 570 6666
contact@huttcity.govt.nz

History

Romance plays big part in the rich and fascinating history of what is now Hutt Minoh Friendship House.

Originally named Norbury, the house was built in 1904 in time for the 1905 society wedding of Alice Fitzherbert, eldest daughter of Lower Hutt’s first Mayor William Alfred Fitzherbert (son of early Hutt MP Sir William Fitzherbert), to Professor George von Zedlitz, by birth a German baron who became first professor of modern languages at the then Victoria College (now university).

In 1945 Lower Hutt City Council bought the house for a caretaker’s residence for the surrounding Jubilee Park which had been created on the adjacent hillsides to celebrate the centenary of the Wellington Province in 1940 and the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Lower Hutt Borough a year later.

This beautifully restored heritage building set in peaceful woodland gardens overlooking Lower Hutt City Centre is the focus of the city’s relationship with Minoh City in Japan.