| German Mission House | |
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  Location within Chatham Islands | |
| Alternative names | Maunganui Stone Cottage |
| General information | |
| Type | House |
| Location | Maunganui, Chatham Island, New Zealand |
| Coordinates | 43°45′52″S 176°46′42″W / 43.7644°S 176.7782°W |
| Year(s) built | 1866–1868 |
| Design and construction | |
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| Designated | 11 November 1991 |
| Reference no. | 5401 |
The German Mission House (also known as the Maunganui Stone Cottage) is a 19th-century stone cottage at Maunganui on northern Chatham Island, New Zealand. Johannes Engst and Johann Baucke, members of a group of German Moravian missionaries, and Baucke's son William built the house in the late 1860s. The building was constructed from stone sourced from the nearby volcanic cone, Maunganui Bluff. The Moravian mission in the Chathams was broadly unsuccessful (failing to gain a single convert on the islands), and Engst alone stayed on the island, residing as a farmer at the house until his retirement in 1900. The house continues to serve as a private residence, although it is frequently visited by tourists to the islands. In 1991, it was listed as a Category 1 historic place by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. Work was intermittently carried out on the structure from 1998 to 2010 to repair damage to masonry.