Ferguson Cottage

Fergusson Cottage was the third structure built at Whakapapa and it is now the oldest remaining building. It provides a tangible link with the early recreational development of Tongariro National Park .

Ferguson's Cottage is a simple gable-roofed structure with a verandah across the front elevation (north), and projecting wing with a pitched roof on the back elevation (south). It is timber famed with vertical board and batten sheathing; the rear wing is rusticated weather-boarding on the south and east walls.

The roof is corrugated iron and there was once a brick chimney at the east end which served the fireplace in the living room. A small gable roofed laundry, again clad with vertical board and batten, sits next to the cottage.