Alberton, Victorian manor in Mount Albert, Auckland, New Zealand

Alberton is a two-storey timber country manor in Mount Albert, rebuilt in the 1870s by architect Matthew Henderson with Anglo-Indian detailing. Its 1870s extensions added a ballroom used as an inner sitting room with a breakfast area, and small attic rooms that housed live-in domestic staff. All ten Kerr Taylor children were born in the master bedroom.

Allan Kerr Taylor established the property in 1849 and had a farmhouse built on it in 1863 as the centre of a 203-hectare estate. In the 1870s architect Matthew Henderson rebuilt it as a country manor in Anglo-Indian style. After Kerr Taylor died in 1890, his widow Sophia ran the estate with her children until her death in 1930.

From 1868 the Kerr Taylors held an annual party for St Luke's Sunday school children, who could bring friends and family; by 1889 over 100 children attended, and Sophia provided the feast. The family also threw New Zealand's first county ball on 20 September 1877, with more than 250 guests, and hosted the 1883 Citizen's Ball for Governor William Jervois and his wife Lucy.

Heritage New Zealand operates the property and provides guided tours showing original furnishings and household objects from the period. Visitors can move through the rooms and grounds to see how the space was lived in during the Victorian era.

All ten of the Kerr Taylor children were born in Alberton's master bedroom, and Sophia's private sitting room adjoined it. The floral armchair in the room's right corner was given to her in 1920 after 46 years teaching Sunday school at St Luke's Church.