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The Municipal Opera House, designed by F J Wilson and built by J Trevor and Sons, was erected for the Palmerston North Borough Council in 1904-1905 and opened 12 July 1905. In 1952 it was condemned unsafe by the Palmerston North City Council and was strengthened and remodelled both inside and out in 1955. It was sold by the PNCC to a businessman in 1996 and demolished.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Public Photograph Collection Bm 2
Date
circa 1939
Digitisation ID
2008N_Bm2_BUI_1825
Held In
Coolstore

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Taxonomy

Tags
architecture,
building,
buildings,
local government,
music,
photographs,
pnbc,
pncc,
theatre,
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