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Description

The Alpha Motor Inn was built on the corner of Victoria Avenue and Broadway in 1970 for Betty and Bill Clarke. The sculpture Falling Water, by Fred Graham (Ngāti Korokī Kahukura, Tainui, 1928 – 2025), is visible on its street frontage. Graham was an art lecturer at Palmerston North Teachers Training College between 1957 and 1962. After the motel was sold in 2015, the sculpture was purchased for the city two years later. Following restoration work, it was installed on the exterior of the Conference and Function Centre in 2020.

Identification

Object type

Image

Identifier

2015N_ClelandS1B17_013063

Archive

Cleland collection

Relation

Cleland - A25/215

Date

circa 1970

Digitisation ID

2015N_ClelandS1B17_013063

Format

B&W negative

Held In

"Coolstore"