These flats were designed by Reginald Thorrold Jaggard, a local architect, for Mrs M S Curle in 1938. The flats, on the corner of Rangitikei Street and Wellesbourne Street, stand beside Palmerston North Boys' High School. Plans are held in Ian Mat...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1939

Two houses on the south-western corner of Church and Albert Streets,, 2022. The house on the left was relocated.

(Photo taken through security fence)

Creator:      Ben Foster
Place:          528 and 530 Church Street
Date:          October 8, 2022

Photo of the house at 512 Church Street before it was removed / demolished

Creator:      Ben Foster
Place:          512 Church Street
Date:          June 12, 2021

This house sat empty across from 123 Albert Street. In it's last months, it was hit by an out-of-control car (hence the boards). It then burned down on the 30th of November 2022, and demolished soon after.

Creator:      Ben Foster
Place:          530A Church Street
Date:          October 8, 2022

Two young girls stand on the veranda of this villa, thought to be 'Tuatahi' in Williams Terrace on the Fitzherbert hill area in Palmerston North.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          unknown

'The Wattles' was built for William Park, Stationer, Councillor and Mayor of Palmerston North, and his family in 1887, on 4 acres of land. The dining room of Mr. Park’s house was situated on the ground floor, facing Linton Street. The house was de...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Corner of College and Linton Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1890

William Park was a stationer in Palmerston North, and also served as a Councillor and Mayor. Two of Mr. Park's sons are in the foreground. This view of the house, built 1887, shows the side of the house fronting Linton Street. The house was demoli...

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios,
Place:          Corner of College and Linton Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1905

Mrs Matilda Kennedy is on the verandah of her home, in either Taonui or North Street, with three of her children: Willie (standing); Frederick; Jessie. Matilda Kennedy, nee Mellon, came to New Zealand from Australia and lived on the West Coast. Sh...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Taonui Street?, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1900

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. P...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1898

William Smith was a brick maker. Mrs W Smith is in the centre of the photograph. The residence stood on the eastern side of what is now Victoria Avenue, near the Church Street corner.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Victoria Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          1890s

"Kaingahou" in Palmerston North was built for Ditlev Monrad after he retired from Karere in 1905. He died in 1908. The house was later owned by the Kendall family, Mr R A Swan, Mrs Helen Beckman and Bodil and Gunner Petersen. The 3500 square foot ...

Creator:      E Creamer
Place:          642 Pioneer Highway, Palmerston North
Date:          1981

This building was one of the first European houses in inland Manawatu, erected 1867 by European carpenters employed by Ditlev Gothard Monrad, the Lutheran Bishop and ex-Premier of Denmark who settled at Karere in 1866. The house was occupied by th...

Creator:      T Bloch, Nelson
Place:          Karere, Longburn, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1868

A camp of slab huts with canvas roofs and tents is the bush home of these workmen.

Creator:      Charles E Wildbore [?]
Place:          Pohangina East, Manawatū
Date:          circa 1900 to circa 1910

Mother and children outside a timberclad cottage at Foxton Beach. Said to be either the Senior or Hartley home.

Creator:      Jack Anderson
Place:          Foxton Beach, Horowhenua Region
Date:          circa 1905

This house was designed by Reginald Thorrold-Jaggard, a local architect, and built for Mr David H Cook, a window dresser of Palmerston North. The roof line was remodelled in the 1930s to include another room upstairs - see 2010N_Bur317_3258.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          9 Carlton Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1928 to circa 1929

'Atawhai', meaning 'warm welcome', was built for Edwin Keiller, a widower, as a healthy place to raise his children. It was designed by C.T. Natusch, the architect, and built by Arthur Bennett at the top of the bluff across the bridge from Palmers...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Massey College, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1910

C.T. Natusch was the architect who designed 'Atawhai', meaning “Warm Welcome”, which was constructed between 1908 – 1909. The house was built at the top of the bluff, across the bridge from Palmerston North, in Fitzherbert, and building materials ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Massey College, Palmerston North
Date:          1920s

'Atawhai', meaning 'warm welcome', was built for Edwin Keiller, a widower, as a healthy place to raise his children. It was designed by C.T. Natusch, the architect, and built by Arthur Bennett at the top of the bluff across the bridge from Palmers...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Massey College, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1950 to circa 1959

The view of the house on South Street. In 1910 William Park sold “The Wattles' and went to live in a newly constructed 18 room house further along College Street. He named this house, on Section 976, “Te Mahoe”. It stood on the western corner of S...

Creator:      Whalley and Co., Crown Studios,
Place:          Corner of South and College street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1911

At the time of the photogragh 462 Featherston Street was the home of Harry and Betsy D’Ath. When H.J. D’Ath died in 1957 the property was sold, and a few acres of paddocks were then purchased by the City Council for council flats. The trees on the...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          462 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1950s

This house was built about 1905-1910. In March 1980 the City Council decided to demolish the houses at 54 and 66 Waldegrave Street following a letter from the Showground Board of Control expressing concern at the condition of both properties. The ...

Creator:      The Tribune
Place:          54 or 66 Waldegrave Street, Palmerston North
Date:          June 8, 1980

This house, previously 174 Church Street, was built c1876. It was rented by Count von Blaramberg in the 1890s and used as a private school. The longest tenants of the house were the Bartlett family, 1908 - 1961. The Bartlett daughters, Beryl and C...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          398 Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          August 21, 1979

This house in Linton Street was one of five established around New Zealand in 1978 under the Government’s Emergency Housing Scheme. The house was bought by the Housing Corporation and leased at a nominal rent to the Palmerston North City Council, ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Linton Street, Palmerston North
Date:          March 23, 1978

Photograph of an artist’s impression of the completed project. Forty units, in eleven blocks, were completed early in 1978 for the Palmerston North City Council. The Ferguson Street project contract was let to McMillan Lockwood at a price of $760...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Ferguson Street, Palmerston North
Date:          July 16, 1977

Banner hanging from the front of the Penrose flats building, reading 'Unfare Fair Investments'. The protest also related to the Edendale flats next door. Fair Investments owned the two blocks of flats built in 1949 and the protest was against thei...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          334 Rangitikei Street,Palmerston North
Date:          1982

24 Campbell Street undergoing restoration under a Housing Corporation Scheme called CHIPS (Community Housing Improvement Programme). About 32 houses in Campbell Street, between the Grey Street extension and Featherston Street, qualified for Gover...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          24 Campbell Street, Palmerston North
Date:          February 25, 1981

The former Voss homestead stands on the corner of Karere Road and the Palmerston North to Foxton highway. The original two-storied cottage still stands as built over 90 years ago, forming the front part of the present house. It was the home of Max...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1971

Banner hanging from the front of the Edendale flats building, reading 'We Shall Not Be Moved'. The protest also related to the Penrose building next door. Fair Investments owned the two blocks of flats built in 1949 and the protest was against the...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Ragitikei Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1982

The home of William Thorrold-Jaggard and his family in the 1940s-50s. The house was designed by Thorrold Jaggard, a local architect. This is the rear view, showing the extensions on the left side with French doors, built October 1950.

Creator:      William Thorrold-Jaggard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 1951

This house is thought to be 37 Taonui Street, on the corner of Maire Street nearest to Cuba Street. It was the home of Mr Herbert C Jones in the late 1940s.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1954