This building was constructed as the 5th Public Library to operate in Palmerston North. The three-storey library building was opened on 4 November 1965 and served as the city's library until 1996.
Creator: Ian Matheson - Palmerston North City Council
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1973
In 1965 McMillan & Co Ltd, Builders, completed the 5th Public Library to operate in Palmerston North. This three storey library building was opened on 4 November 1965 at a cost of £317,000. The automatic opening doors were a 'new' feature installe...
Creator: Ian Matheson
Place: Corner The Square and Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1993
These carvings, created by John Bevan Ford and Warren Warbrick were constructed in 1990 to honour the significance of the Māori name for The Square, Te Marae o Hine, The Courtyard of the Daughter of Peace. John Bevan Ford, a member of Ngāti Raukaw...
Creator: Ian Matheson
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1993
This photograph shows many mature trees in The Square with a path leading to the Te Awe Awe statue, built 1907, and beyond to the corner of The Square and Fitzherbert Avenue. From the corner of Fitzherbert Avenue can be seen the Fisherman's Table ...
Creator: Ian Matheson
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1993
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 dec...
Creator: Ian Matheson
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1993
Taken from the Public Library on the corner of The Square and Main Street, looking across to the Downtown multi-storey car park building that fronts Main Street. The Downtown retail and cinema complex opened in 1990, with its main entrance on Broa...
Creator: Ian Matheson
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1993
Looking across part of The Square to PostBank in the former Post Office building. PostBank was the trading name of the Post Office Bank Ltd which was formed in 1987. PostBank was later on sold to ANZ with the PostBank brand being finally redund...
Creator: Ian Matheson
Place: Corner of Main Street and the Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1993
From the 1930s - 1960s this set of buildings housed Jackson's grocery store. Later in the 1990s a craft shop operated out of the premises. The shops are now used as retail outlets and businesses.
Creator: Ian Matheson
Place: Corner of Fitzherbert Avenue and College Street, Palmerston North
Date: July 21, 1998
Flower Shop is located on the corner of Albert and Featherston Streets, and has operated out this building since 1985. they also have a shop at the Hokowhitu roundabout, Palmerston North. They sell a large variety of fresh cut flowers, bouquets, f...
Creator: Ian Matheson
Place: 424 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: July 21, 1998
The Tiritea Dairy is a typical suburban 'corner shop', on the corner of Albert and Featherston streets. (Still operating in 2018)
Creator: Ian Matheson
Place: 418 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 21, 1998
This house, located on the corner of Victoria Avenue and Grey Street, was built in the 1920s by Berryman. In 1998 it housed Occupational Health & Safety before being put up for sale by the Department of Labour.
Creator: Ian Matheson
Place: Corner of Victoria Avenue and Grey Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 21, 1998
This photograh, taken from near the Grey Street intersection, shows the high rise buildings of the Royal Sun Alliance, State Insurance and Barraud and Abraham buildings, looking down to The Square.
Creator: Ian Matheson
Place: Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 21, 1998
This photograh shows the Russell Street Dairy located near St Johns Avenue. In 1936 the shop was run by Mrs Jean Benton. Miss Mabel Keys took over the shop c1946. By 1955 it was a general store. During the 1990s it remained as a dairy with a smal...
Creator: Ian Matheson
Place: Russell Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 21, 1998
This house was originally owned by the Rodgers family.
Creator: Ian Matheson
Place: 488 Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: July 21, 1998
The house at 192 Broadway Avenue was built by W H Cook, one of the two Cook brothers who opened a saw milling operation during the late 19th Century. William Cook died on the 9 November, 1937. The house was occupied by various members of the famil...
Creator: Ian Matheson
Place: 192 Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: June 21, 1998
The PNCC administration building was opened in 1980. Its design was an example of Brutalism architecture. The Hopwood clock tower completed in 1957, houses the original Post Office clock. Behind the clock tower can be seen the Council chamber. The...
Creator: Ian Matheson
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1993
Kentucky Fried Chicken is a fast food chain of stores begun by Colonel Saunders in the United States of America in 1952. There are two outlets in Palmerston North, in Rangitikei Street and Princess Street.
Creator: Ian Matheson
Place: Palmerston North
Date: June 21, 1998
Georgie Pie was part of a fast food chain owned by Progressive Enterprises, started in 1977 in Kelston, Auckland. The chain was sold to ‘McDonalds’ in 1996 which was the beginning of the end, with the last Georgie Pie ceasing trading in 1998.
Creator: Ian Matheson
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 21, 1998
This building was originally the home of the United Manawatu Lodge 1721, EC., opened and dedicated on July 24, 1931. It was designed by Ernst West, a local architect and Mason. In the late 1980s the building became too expensive to maintain and wa...
Creator: Ian Matheson
Place: Palmerston North
Date: June 21, 1998
The Orient Lodge of the International Order of Odd Fellows has been operating in Palmerston North since c1885. This building served as their meeting hall until the late 1990s. Meetings were also held by Court Hinemoa, Hineroa Lodge, Royal Elizabet...
Creator: Ian Matheson - Palmerston North City Council
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 10, 1998
This image was taken from the then Public Library building on the corner of Main Street and The Square. It looks across The Square to the Civic Administration Building (centre) - an example of Brutalism architecture, and often referred to locally ...
Creator: Ian Matheson
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1993