Te Marae o Hine, The Square
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 ...
Te Marae o Hine / The Square
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 Fitzh...
Te Marae o Hine / The Square
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,...
Main Street
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...
Post Bank, corner of The Square and Main Street
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 i...
Commercial buildings, corner of Fitzherbert Avenue and College Street
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 use...
Flower Shop, 424 Featherson Street
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 ro...
Tiritea Dairy, 418 Featherston Street
The Tiritea Dairy is a typical suburban 'corner shop', on the corner of Albert and Featherston streets. (Still operating in 2018)
House, Victoria Avenue
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...
Rangitikei Street
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 b...
Russell Street Dairy
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 c19...
House, corner of Victoria Avenue and Church Street
This house was originally owned by the Rodgers family.
Cook house, 192 Broadway
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 Co...
Palmerston North City Council administration building and Hopwood clock tower
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 ...
Kentucky Fried Chicken, Rangitikei Street
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 Nor...
'Georgie Pie', Rangitikei Street
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 whic...
Aqaba Bar and Restaurant
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 arch...
Frank Rose outside the Orient Lodge No. 42, 412-414 Church Street
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 ...
Civic Administration Building and Clock Tower
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 B...
Public Library, corner of The Square and Main Street
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 serv...
Public Library, corner of The Square and Main Street
The 5th Public Library to operate in Palmerston North was built in the three-storey library building was opened on 4 November 1965 and served as the city's libr...
Front entrance Public Library, Main Street
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 Novembe...