To the many generous donors to our campaign to build a Janet Frame House Visitor Centre, we want to update you on the project.
During Frame’s centenary year we were delighted to raise $22039 through crowdfunding to create a visitor centre at her childhood home in Eden Street. With additional support from sponsors, we are moving forward with the project and expect to complete the centre in 2026.
To stay within our funding envelope, we will deliver a more modest design. This will still achieve our goal of providing a centre for telling stories about Frame’s life and work, and a place to welcome visitors.
Creating the visitor centre will enable the house itself to be a dedicated space that reflects, as far as possible, the home as it was in Frame’s day.
The prefabricated building that we will put in place as our visitor centre may remind you of another modest space – the shed on Frank Sargeson’s property in Takapuna where Frame wrote Owls Do Cry. The New Zealand literary community knows well how great inspiration can be found in humble spaces!
Once we have an opening date for the visitor centre, a celebration is planned. As a donor you will be the first to be invited to join us for the opening.
As many donated anonymously we are unable to contact you personally, we take this update as addressed to you.
Ngā mihi nui, thank you once again for your support of this project to honour the life, literature and legacy of Janet Frame.
The Janet Frame Eden Street Trust Trustees – Chloe Searle, Karen Ross, Kate Camp
The Janet Frame House 