More Info →Savage Crescent walking tour, Local history Week

Description: Margaret Tate, centre, facing, talking to the group who toured the Savage Crescent area of Palmerston North, during Local history Week 2008. The Savage Crescent state housing precinct is in the West End area of Palmerston North, bounded by College Street, Cook Street and Park Road. Fifty acres was bought by the Government for the development, and between then and 1944, 245 state houses were built. For the time, Savage Crescent was designed upon the most modern ideas, as a garden suburb, with a large central, recreational area, communal garages and a variety of house designs built for the sun and with ample gardens. While the majority of the houses in Savage Crescent are now privately owned, the precinct remains as a significant example of state housing in New Zealand.