3D print the Pah Homestead
A free, printable model of the Pah Homestead, a large villa with a square central tower and a wide veranda, and the parkland and paths around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Pah Homestead
Hillsborough, a suburb of Auckland in New Zealand, is home to the historic Pah Homestead, which stands inside Monte Cecilia Park. In the 17th and 18th centuries the site held a fortified Māori pā, in an area significant to Ngai Riukiuta, descendants of the Tainui canoe. Pōtatau Te Wherowhero is believed to have occupied it between 1839 and 1844. William Hart bought the land in 1844 and used it as a cattle and dairy farm. Thomas Russell paid £12,725 for the farm in 1866.
James Williamson, a businessman from Auckland, paid £10,000 for the property in 1877. He kept the name The Pah, tore down the thirty-year-old house and replaced it with a palatial residence. Edward Mahoney's firm, E. Mahoney and Son, designed the building, which went up in 1877–1879. The Italianate villa is made of brick covered in cement render to imitate stone. It was modeled on Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, which belonged to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. At the time of building, no house in the Auckland province was larger, and it was widely seen as the finest.
A central tower holds a viewing room at its top, with a 360-degree outlook over the landscape. St John's Collegiate School opened at the Homestead on February 11, 1902, and served boys as both a day school and a boarding school. In 1913 the Sisters of Mercy bought it and renamed it Monte Cecilia, and it later served as an orphanage and as a temporary home for people without housing and for new migrants. It was registered as a Category I heritage structure on September 1, 1983, and opened as an art gallery in August 2010.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 6 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 7 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 9 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Veranda columns and chimneys
- A wide veranda wraps the main block on slim columns, and small chimneys rise from the roofs. Print friendly adapts these small parts to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on a larger print.
- A square tower with arches
- The central tower has small arched openings and a tiny cap on top. Print slowly with good cooling, and use layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm to keep the tower crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- The Pah Homestead is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Pah Homestead takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The Pah Homestead is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Pah Homestead STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Pah Homestead grows with the print: about 6 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
