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Cranleigh Apartment house was built in 1905, by Mr John H Hankins, a solicitor in the firm of Hankins, Fitzherbert and Abraham. In 1910 the house was bought by Mr Robert McNab, a prominent New Zealand historian who had a fire-proof concrete Library added to the house. In 1925 the house became a maternity hospital and nursing home owned by the Charters sisters. It was then known as “Levuka”. Fire partly destroyed the house in 1929 and it was put up for auction. Bought by Mrs J L Hopwood, who in 1934 had the house converted into the Cranleigh Apartment House. In 1972 it had about 36 rooms. It was still existant in the late 1970s.Plans, by the architectural firm L G West, of the 1934 remodelling and the 10 bedroom annex built that year are held in the Ian Matheson City Archives; CA: L G West, Ref Nos 428, 429 & 433.

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Object type
Image
Digitisation ID
2008N_Bur85_BUI_1854
Title
Cranleigh Apartment House, 189 Fitzherbert Avenue
Relation
Public Photograph Collection Bur 85
Held In
Coolstore

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Creation

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Place
189 Fitzherbert Avenue, West End, Palmerston North
Date
March 9, 1972

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Credit Line
Manawatu Evening Standard

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flats,
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