This Remuera homestead was first used as a boarding house as early as the 1920s. During World War II, it was used as an officers' club for American medical officers from the US base hospital over the road, now the site of Dilworth Junior School.

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Aachen House's advantages are just as attractive if you are coming from closer to home than most of this boutique hotel's guests, writes John Gardner.