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Workmen on the first floor of the new City Library building during construction. The building was originally constructed in The Square in 1928, by C M Ross as a department store. It subsequently became the Milne and Choyce, DIC and Arthur Barnett department stores, until bought by the Palmerston North City Council in 1992 and renovated as the new City Library, opening 1996.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
City Library Construction 1994-1996
Date
circa 1996
Digitisation ID
2008P_PNCC-LIB_CMROSS_1656
Held In
PNCC Archives

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1990s,
c m ross building,
colour,
construction,
palmerston north city library,
roscos,
thematic collections,
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