This view of The Square was probably taken from the top of the Grand Hotel. Some of the visible landmarks are The Lakelet, the cannons, the band rotunda, the observatory and the Te Peeti Te Awe Awe statue.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          1911 to 1918

This 'Real Photograph' postcard shows the bridge over the lakelet in the Square with the with the Occidental Hotel in the background. The Occidental Hotel was originally built in 1881 and burnt down in 1891. After being rebuilt, it was again destr...

Creator:      F G R
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1920

The lakelet was the main feature of the last quadrant of The Square to be developed by the Beautifying Society. James Nash, Mayor of Palmerston North at the time, opened the Lakelet before a crowd on October 27 1909. The Lakelet is shaped as a but...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1909 to circa 1910

This postcard looks from The Lakelet towards the south-east section of The Square, between the corners of Main Street East and Fitzherbert Avenue.

Creator:      Unknown
Date:          circa 1915

The observatory was erected in the south-west quadrant of The Square in 1906. It was demolished in 1938 after repeated bouts of vandalism and the increase in light pollution in The Square lessened its usefullness. The Lakelet constructed 1909, can...

Creator:      Frank Duncan & Co, Ltd
Date:          circa 1915