Stünzer Family Collection ( ex-Bietzker Family , Germany ).
Tony Brunt Collection .
The Stünzner family home , at Tanugamanono , Apia ( shown above ), which Fritz designed and built in 1906 , is an interesting blend of Teutonic and tropical influences . It still sits on the western side of the main road , though heavily modified .
Displaying a stronger South Seas flavour , the Stünzner home is shown again on the right in 1928 after it had been bought by Theodore W . Brunt ( on porch ), and his wife Freida ( nee Schwenke ), who is upstairs . The Brunts bought the house in the early 1920s , possibly from the NZ Administration . They have opened up the house more to allow an airflow through a gap above the concrete foundation pad and the timber cladding above . The decorative embellishments of the lower wall have gone .
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