The clubrooms were built by the Patriotic Society in 1917 for use as a social club for returned servicemen. In 1918 it was named the "Soldiers Club". By 1929 the ground floor had been remodeled for shops, while the second floor remained the RSA Club rooms until 1966 when they moved to Broadway. This photograph shows what was originally the upstairs balcony. Early on it was glassed in .
https://d28dhd8eubcyz4.cloudfront.net/iiif/2/curtis-production2-cache%2F1%2F0%2Fe%2F9ed511-2d59-4e31-98aa-8004ba1a141d%2Fresize_master_db9d4c82b7857eb593d09a4afdec3473.jpg/full/!880,1024/0/default.jpg?sig=5914408bc23a586653a2e5e67c550dea0b07b545&ver=1659454684
Former Returned Servicemens Club, corner of George Street and Cuba Street
Identification
- Object type
- Image
- Relation
- PNCC Series 7/8/5
- Date
- 1982
- Digitisation ID
- 2009P_Bc237_BUI_2562
- Held In
- Coolstore
Creation
- Created By
- E Creamer
- Place
- Corner of Cuba and George Street, Palmerston North
Object rights
- License
- Attribution + NonCommercial
Taxonomy
- Community Tags