Kate Sheppard House

Kate Sheppard House is a single-storey timber villa with a slate roof at 83 Clyde Road in Ilam, a suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, beside the University of Canterbury. The Sheppard family lived there from 1888 to 1902, the years in which Kate Sheppard led the campaign for women's suffrage, and she pasted together the petitions, including the 1893 petition of more than 25,000 signatures, at the house. The barrister John Joseph Dougall, later Mayor of Christchurch, bought it in 1902, and later owners included a doctor who ran a surgery there. Its significance was not widely known until the 1993 centenary of women's suffrage renewed interest. Heritage New Zealand lists it as a Category I heritage place, the government bought it in 2019, and it opened as a museum in 2020.