This house was built by Elliot Warburton (d.1922) in the 1870s, and sold by him to the Government for Defence Offices in 1915. Elliot Warburton, a solicitor, arrived in Palmerston North in 1875 as a young man of 27 and married Miss Budd in 1882. Pictured are two of his daughters, Maud (later Mrs C Dalgety) and Charlotte. The house has since been demolished.