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Description

This view shows Main Street (foreground) and Church Street East (behind). Sights include the Palmerston North Court House on Main Street (Palmerston North's fourth, from 1897-1988), the Palmerston North Opera House on Church Street (built 1904-1905 and demolished 1996) and the second St Andrews Church (built 1893, demolished 1957). The "G.P.O. Tower" mentioned in the title is the General Post Office, which stood on the corner of Main Street East and The Square. The building remains, but no longer operates as a post office and the tower was removed.

Identification

Object type
Postcard
Archive
Postcard Collection
Date
circa 1907
Digitisation ID
2016P_Postcard61_013243
Format
Postcard

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Taxonomy

Tags
charles dahl,
church street,
court house,
library,
main street,
opera house,
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