This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 13 February 1961: "Visitors to the city yesterday are here seen relaxing in the Square gardens and taking full advantage of the bright sunshine."
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: February 13, 1961
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, standing centre on the bridge, is opening the Lakelet before a crowd. The Lakelet is shaped as a...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1909
The lakelet was constructed in The Square, Palmerston North, in 1909 by the Beautifying Society. In 1953 Arthur Hopwood gifted the city of Palmerston North £10,000 to build a new tower in The Square to hold the clock and chimes removed from the Po...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1971
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 05 April 1958, page 8: "The picture is of the original rustic bridge in the Square Gardens, which was opened by the then Mayor, the late Mr. J.A. Nash in 1910. This str...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: April 5, 1958
The Square and Butterfly lake in the foreground, with the new National Mutual building on the corner of the Square and Fitzherbert Avenue. (Probably taken from the new Palmerston North Civic Administration Building)
Creator: Jack Cottam
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 197X
Photo taken by Terry Finnerty, photographer. In the foreground is (part) of the Butterfly lakelet. The Hopwood Clock tower is prominent, with the T&G building and clocktower on Broadway Avenue in the background on the right. The big white building...
Creator: Terry Finnerty
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1960
Photo taken by Terry Finnerty, photographer. Looking across Butterfly Lakelet and its bridge, to the corner of The Square and Church Street West. From the left of the picture, in the background can be seen the Municipal Chambers, All Saints' Churc...
Creator: Terry Finnerty
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1958
The Butterfly Lakelet was constructed in 1909 by the then Beautification Society. The fountains were added in the 1960s.
Taken by 'Photo Instruments' when testing a camera or lens. Photo Instruments originally operated in Rangitikei Street, with ...
Creator: Merlyn or Alfred Drew
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1980s
The current brick building is the third church to be constructed on the site since 1875. In 1905, Archdeacon C Coleridge Harper commissioned Frederick de Jersey Clere to design a new church. Clere had designed over 120 churches in New Zealand in h...
Creator: B. Turner
Place: Church Street and the Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1963
This photograph consists of two views. One is of the bridge over the lakelet in the Square with the Post Office (erected 1905-1906, now Highflyers Restaurant & Bar [2014]) in the background. The second is of the bridge over the lakelet in the Squa...
Creator: A Rickard, Palmerston North
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1910 to 1925
Three women crossing the bridge over the lakelet in The Square.
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1900
"Looking across The Square to the Grand Hotel and corner of Church Street. From the corner of Fitzherbert Street, on the left are: Bank of New Zealand; Mellsop Elliot and Co; Rankin Butchers; Furnishing Co. Ltd; Evening Standard; A A Pratt; E Olse...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
This photograph of The Square was taken in the vicinity of the Manawatu Standard building. In the foreground is the Lakelet (or Butterfly Lake), followed by the Phoenix Palms that once lived in The Square. The tall building to the right is the The...
Creator: Joe Sing Candids, Palmerston North
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1974
This colour slide of The Square shows the The Lakelet in the foreground, the Grand Hotel on the left and All Saints Church in the middle.
Creator: Clarice Parlane
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1960s
This image looks down Church Street West, from around the corner of Fitzherbert Avenue.
Creator: Clarice Parlane
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1960s
Photograph taken by mobile phone, from a 105 metre crane in The Square, looking down on the corner of The Square and Church Street. The Butterfly Lakelet in The Square can be clearly seen. The corner of Fitzherbert Avenue and The Square is on th...
Creator: Chris Murray
Place: Palmerston North
Date: February 19, 2014
The Square butterfly lakelet and bridge, with the National Mutual building on the corner of Church street and Fitzherbert Avenue visible in the background.
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square. Palmerston North
Date: 199X
This image is from a series taken around 1957 that shows a view of The Square from the top of the Hopwood Clock Tower. This one shows the corner of Church Street West and The Square, including the Lakelet.
Creator: C H James
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1957
Looking across the Butterly Lakelet towards the Clock tower.
Taken by 'Photo Instruments' when testing a camera or lens. Photo Instruments originally operated in Rangitikei Street, with a studio and darkroom in the Oroua Power Building, before re...
Creator: Merlyn or Alfred Drew
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1970s
This colour image of The Square shows the quadrant nearest to the corner of Church Street West.
Creator: Colin Rush
Place: Corner of Main Street and The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1977
This photograph is of two little boys perched on one of the cannons in the Square. The photographer is looking east towards the PDC building (now the Plaza). This gun was installed in 1909 and removed during the 1940s. Cannons were purchased by th...
Creator: Tanner Bros
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1920
Two cannons, surplus to Defence Department requirements, were acquired by the Council and displayed in The Square from 1909-1939. See Research File A175/72/2 in the Ian Matheson City Archives, City Library for more information. The Lakelet was co...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1915
"A story unto it's self." Fountains in the Butterfly pond at the Square.
Creator: Thane Zander
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 2009
The Square was laid out as a reserve in the original plans for the town of Palmerston North. In the early 1900s the Beautifying Society laid out the first formal gardens, culminating in the lakelet, sometimes referred to as the Butterfly Lake due ...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: November 3, 2010
This photograph is one of four views of Church Street taken by Alf Taylor in the 1950s. This view looks towards Fitzherbert Avenue across The Lakelet (built 1909). On the left corner is what was once the public library. On the right corner is the ...
Creator: A Taylor
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1950
The Lakelet was constructed in October 1909. It was the main feature of the last quadrant of The Square to be developed by the Beautifying Society. The Hopwood Clock Tower was built in 1957, built with a donation from Arthur Hopwood. The clock chi...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1957 to circa 1960
The observatory was erected in the south-west quadrant of The Square in 1906. It was demolished in 1938. The Lakelet constructed 1909, can be seen in the foreground.
Creator: George W Anderson
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910 to circa 1920
People standing on the bridge of the Lakelet, constructed in the south-west quadrant of The Square in 1909. Beyond can be seen Child's Commercial Hotel on the corner of Main Street.
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
This photograph looks across the Lakelet (constructed 1909) to All Saints Church (constructed 1914-1915). The Grand Hotel, seen here on the left side of the photograph, was built in 1906.
Creator: K H Shea
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1930
The Lakelet was constructed in October 1909 and the cannon was placed in the Square gardens in April or May of the same year. The buildings that are visible are DM George's drapery business (left), the Occidental Hotel (middle) and the Bank of New...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1920