Kaingahou

Description

'Kaingahou' in Palmerston North was built for Ditlev Monrad after he retired from Karere in 1905. He died in 1908. The house was later owned by the Kendall family, Mr R A Swan, Mrs Helen Beckman and Bodil and Gunner Petersen. The 3500 square foot home is built of solid kauri timber.

This image was captioned "The day they came back after First World War" and was digitised from a copy made by Tom Law in 1984.

A duplicate image carried the same quote as above with the following addendum: "Visitors at Kaingahou - Perhaps Frank Thompson and Robbie Robinson"

Identification

Archive

Monrad Papers

Relation

A25/258

Date

191X

Digitisation id

2020P_Monrad-S5F1_032992

Format

B&W print

Held in

Community Archives