Pahiatua convent now a private home in Greytown

Friday, March 28th, 2014

A century-old convent’s transformation into a gracious family home got a tick from perhaps the hardest people to please – the nuns who used to live there.

The former Brigidine Sisters convent, built in Pahiatua in 1912, was bought and trucked to Greytown in December by retired academic John Bushnell to be turned into a four-bedroom home for him and his wife. Continue reading

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