This building was designed by Oscar Albert Jorgensen. The first stage of this building was designed in August 1923, and built soon afterwards by Messrs Hudson & Williamson for £1,922. However, it was then a single storey 3-shop block. In 1924, Jorgensen designed a room to be built behind one shop, and then in 1929 he designed the building’s first floor, which became three 2-bedroom flats. A fourth shop was also added fronting Cuba Street - its builders being Messrs Anderson & Williamson. Shop No. 2 was a dairy for many years, and a staircase inside it led up to the flat overlooking Bourke Street. The other flats used a different entrance.
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Identification
- Object type
- Image
- Relation
- IMCA Digital Archive
- Date
- June 2020
- Digitisation ID
- 2020BD_IMCA-DigitalMaster_032260
- Format
- Born Digital
- Held In
- IMCA Digital Archive
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Creation
- Created By
- Ian Matheson City Archives
- Place
- 137-143 Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Object rights
- License
- By Attribution Alone
Taxonomy
- Community Tags
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