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This two-storey library, with shops on the street frontage was built by the Palmerston North Borough Council in 1929. It was the first purpose library in Palmerston North, and remained in use until a subsequent library was opened on the corner of Main Street and The Square in 1965.

Identification

Object type
Image
Archive
PNCC
Relation
PNCC4/8/2 Plan M238/10
Date
January 1957
Digitisation ID
2017Pa_PNCC4-8-2-M238-10_020028
Format
Paper
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PNCC Archives

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Place
Corner of Fitzherbert Avenue and The Square

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