Hastings architect John Colin Scott, who was of Maori descent, designed this building. Scott was commissioned by the Raukawa tribal executive in 1954 to design a community centre that would be a national memorial to the 28th Maori Battalion and re...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 138 Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
Hastings architect John Colin Scott, who was of Maori descent, designed this building. Scott was commissioned by the Raukawa tribal executive in 1954 to design a community centre that would be a national memorial to the 28th Maori Battalion and re...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 138 Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
Erected in 1898 to replace the previous Dawick’s Buffet (a temperance hotel/boarding-house and restaurant that burnt down on 3rd October 1897), this building’s unknown architect was possibly Ernest Larcomb, who had a professional and social relati...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 44 Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
Designed by Ernst West in April 1928, this building was built by Mr A. Stenberg, at a cost of £1,957, on land gifted by PN City Council. Neo-Georgian in style, its design drew inspiration from Greek and Roman architecture. The use of brick is also...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 156-164 King Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
Palmerston North’s first Roman Catholic church was erected in Broadway (near Berryman’s Lane) in 1877. It was replaced in 1890 by the first St. Patrick’s Church, which in turn was replaced by this building in 1923-25 on a new site..
It was design...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 197 Broadway, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
The reinforced concrete Ward Bros. building was designed in 1935 by Ernst West and F.N. Hornibrooke - trading under the name: ‘L.G. West, Son & Hornibrooke’. The owners, William Ercott Ward and Edward Ercott Ward, began trading as Ward Bros. in 19...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 213 Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
Palmerston North’s first Roman Catholic church was erected in Broadway (near Berryman’s Lane) in 1877. It was replaced in 1890 by the first St. Patrick’s Church, which in turn was replaced by this building in 1923-25 on a new site..
It was design...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 197 Broadway, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
This building was designed by Christchurch firm England Bros. their only known building in Palmerston North. Edward England often used slate tiles, tall well-lit windows with metal mullions and surrounds, and brick construction. This building had ...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 1-7 Coleman Place, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
This building will have been one of the last designed by William Thorrold-Jaggard for the partnership founded by his late father. It was built, at a cost of £17,600, for the United Friendly Societies’ Dispensary, which occupied another building on...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 284-286 Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
This building will have been one of the last designed by William Thorrold-Jaggard for the partnership founded by his late father. It was built, at a cost of £17,600, for the United Friendly Societies’ Dispensary, which occupied another building on...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 284-286 Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
Designed by Ernest Larcomb, it was built in 1922 for the Waldegrave family after its predecessor burnt down. It contained two shops and first floor space for other businesses. They gave it the name ‘Union Building’, which remained its identity unt...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 23-25 Coleman Place, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
This brick building was erected - in two stages - for George Lelliott Snelling. He had taken over an existing butchery business in 1920. The first stage of Snelling’s rebuild was the butcher’s shop. The work was completed in 1928 with the construc...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 193-199 Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
Lancashire-born William Fielding designed this building. This steel-framed brick building was erected for C.M. Ross & Co. in 1915-16. Soon after it opened, a tea and luncheon room were established on the first floor. It closed in 1928. The Manawat...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 4-6 Coleman Place, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
The Palmerston North Working Men’s Club built its clubrooms on this site in 1904. However, when it (by then renamed the PN Cosmopolitan Club) built new premises next door, the front of their old building was replaced by this building. Meanwhile, t...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 245-251 Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
This building was designed by Thomas Harvey James, and thought to have been constructed around 1895. The Manchester Unity Order of Oddfellows was a mutual aid organisation, whose members paid subscriptions in exchange for financial support in time...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 188 Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
The Palmerston North Working Men’s Club built its clubrooms on this site in 1904. However, when it (by then renamed the PN Cosmopolitan Club) built new premises next door, the front of their old building was replaced by this building. Meanwhile, t...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 245-251 Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
So-named by a later owner, Norfolk House was erected in late 1925 for C.M. Ross & Co. Ltd., to Arthur Robert Allen and Herbert Leslie Hickson’s design. Its site had been the garden of the neighbouring Union Bank - which had included a ba...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 8-14 Coleman Place (& upstairs: 33 George Street), Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
Erected in 1925, the Nash Building, consisting of four shops with flats upstairs, was designed by Herbert Leslie Hickson. In 1929, a fifth shop and upper floor was added at northern end to the design of O.A. Jorgensen. Elizabeth Lily Nash, wife of...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 42-48 George Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
Erected in 1925, the Nash Building, consisting of four shops with flats upstairs, was designed by Herbert Leslie Hickson. In 1929, a fifth shop and upper floor was added at northern end to the design of O.A. Jorgensen. Elizabeth Lily Nash, wife of...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 42-48 George Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
This building was designed by Ernest Larcomb. Messrs Sollitt Bros erected this building in 1905-06 for Thomas Martyn Holland. The first occupant was the Wellington and Manawatu Hardware Company, which later amalgamated with Messrs J.A. Nash & Co. ...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 256 Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
This building was designed by Ernest Larcomb. Messrs Sollitt Bros erected this building in 1905-06 for Thomas Martyn Holland. The first occupant was the Wellington and Manawatu Hardware Company, which later amalgamated with Messrs J.A. Nash & Co. ...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 256 Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
C. Tilleard Natusch & Sons’ designed this building. Its Spanish Mission design style was becoming popular in New Zealand by the latter 1920s, and it was to be well-used in Hawkes Bay after the 1931 earthquake – especially in Hastings. The building...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 268-270 Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
This building was erected in late 1905 by Mr A. France at a cost of £840 for Harriet Kerslake. It was designed by Ernest Larcomb and housed two shops. The huge fire of 22 February 1924 gutted the building, but reinstatement work was completed. Coo...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 264 Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
This building was designed by Oscar Albert Jorgensen. The first stage of this building was designed in August 1923, and built soon afterwards by Messrs Hudson & Williamson for £1,922. However, it was then a single storey 3-shop block. In 1924, Jor...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 137-143 Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
Palmerston North’s Cosmopolitan Club was formed in 1888 as ‘The Palmerston North Working Men’s Club and Mutual School of Arts.’ Its original membership was primarily ‘working class’ men, but over time this grew to include business and professional...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 233 Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
This building was erected in three stages - 1905, 1911 and 1914. The architect for the first two shops is likely to have been Frederick de Jersey Clere (or probably his son Edmund) the architect for the third shop. The contractor for the...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 201-207 Cuba Street (corner Cuba/Lombard Streets), Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
Built for Messrs J. & H.M. Copeland in early 1905, this brick and concrete building was designed by Ernest Larcomb, and erected by Mr I.J. Fake. Its early tenants include Laurence Kavanagh, J.B. Clarkson Ltd.’s cycle depot, and a land agents. By a...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 260-262 Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
Palmerston North’s Cosmopolitan Club was formed in 1888 as ‘The Palmerston North Working Men’s Club and Mutual School of Arts.’ Its original membership was primarily ‘working class’ men, but over time this grew to include business and professional...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 233 Cuba Street, Palmerston North
Date: June 2020
This three-storey brick and reinforced concrete building was designed by L.G. West & Son. It was erected in 1927 for John Lowbridge Bennett, at a cost of £13,725, by F. Needham Ltd. J.L. Bennett either owned or had a financial interest in the hote...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: 167-173 Cuba StreetPalmerston North
Date: June 2020