These plans for a two-storey shop and residence were designed by L. G. West for Chung Wah. Chung Wah and Co. were a greengrocer and fruitiers. Their show was destroyed by fire in August 1905 and this two-storey brick building was designed to replace it. The Danish-born architect Ludolph Georg West (1846-1919) established an architectural practice in Palmerston North in about 1880. In 1912 he formed a partnership with is son, Ernest Vilhem West, who continued the business after his father's death.
L. G. West, Plans for Shop and Residence for Chung Wah, Foxton
Identification
- Object type
- Image
- Archive
- L G West & Son
- Relation
- CA: L G West, Series 4
- Date
- 1905
- Digitisation ID
- 2021Pa_LGWest-S4-57_035122-001
- Format
- Paper
- Held In
- Community Archives
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