The White Swan Hotel

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The White Swan Hotel is a Victorian-style hotel building in Greytown, in the Wairarapa region of New Zealand. The building was originally constructed in 1905 as a railways administration block at the Hutt Workshops in Woburn, Lower Hutt. A new site for the building was purchased in 2001 on Main Street, Greytown. The intention was to provide accommodation at the higher end of the market, and attract weekend visitors from Wellington. The former railways building was cut into six sections for transport over the Remutaka Hill road. During the transport of one of the sections in December 2002, the transport trailer was knocked off balance by a particularly strong gust of wind. Both lanes of the Remutaka Hill road were closed for more than four hours, and a crane had to be brought in to rescue the load. The renovated building was opened as The White Swan Hotel in October 2003, and included a r