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Te Marae o Hine / The Square
- Description
Looking across The Square to Arthur Barnett department store. This building was built for C M Ross Co Ltd in 1927-1928. In 1959 it was sold to Milne and Choyce, in 1966 to the D.I.C. which was bought out by Arthur Barnett in 1987. At a time of declining department stores and a new plaza on the other side of The Square, Arthur Barnett vacated the building in 1990. In 1993 the Palmerston North City Council bought the building and renovated it into the new City Library, opened in 1996.
Identification
- Object type
- Image
- Relation
- PNCC Series 59
- Date
- 1993
- Digitisation ID
- 2009P_IMCA-DigitalMaster_004413
- Held In
- PNCC Archives