The Grand hotel was constructed in 1906, with the original plans showing 66 bedrooms, 2 conservatories, one shop facing the square and a large dining room. It was designed by NZ architect Mr Maddison and built by Mr James Trevor (Trevor Bros). The...
Creator: Elizabeth Creamer
Place: Corner of The Square and Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
The house was designed by Reginald Thorrold Jaggard, and built in 1928 for Mrs H R Waldegrave. The house was a residence until 1984 when it was converted into commercial premises. 314 Church Street is listed in Category 4 of the New Zealand Histor...
Creator: Elizabeth Creamer
Place: 314 Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
The wooden church hall was originally built as the All Saints Church in 1881 by Meyrick, Perrin and Oakley and was dedicated by Bishop Hadfield on 16 February 1882. It replaced the first Anglican church, built on the site in 1875, which was incorp...
Creator: Elizabeth Creamer
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
The house was designed by A R Allen, and built in 1930 for Henry Free, general manager and shareholder in C M Ross Co. Ltd department store. Free was also a Councillor 1931-1935. It was later owned by John Young, an optometrist, Athol Preece 1951-...
Creator: Elizabeth Creamer
Place: 312 Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
This Hoffman oblong continuous kiln in Palmerston North has not been used since 1959. It is one of the few left in New Zealand and thought to be the only one still in the North Island. It is listed in category 1 under the Historic Places Act 1993....
Creator: Elizabeth Creamer
Place: Featherston Street, Roslyn, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
The ANZ bank building was constructed in 1910 – 1911 after a smaller wooden building on the site burnt down in 1910. It was originally named “The Bank of Australasia” and then “The Union Bank of Australia”. The ANZ occupied the ground floor, leasi...
Creator: Elizabeth Creamer
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1982
This 18-20 roomed house was built by William Coomb’s wife Alice upon returning to Palmerston North after her husband's death in Hastings in 1907. Known by the family as 'Birchanger', it was designed by C W Blackbourn as a replica of their Hawkes B...
Creator: Elizabeth Creamer
Place: 544 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
A view of the Palmerston North City Library from The Square in February 2022, on an overcast day. The building site was formerly connected to commercial enterprises such as the CM Ross department store.
Creator: Isaac Heaphy
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: February 11, 2022
The Regent Theatre was built by the Australasian cinema and theatre chain J.C. Williamson Limited. Williamson's began its New Zealand operation in 1926. The theatre, one of several Regents built throughout New Zealand and Australia at this time, w...
Creator: Charles N. Hollinshed Architect
Place: 53 Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: November 1929
Plans for renovation work undertaken on the Regent Theatre.
Creator: L.G. West Son and Callendar Architects
Place: 53 Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: April 1959
These images showing Caccia Birch House undergoing repairs are part of a file compiled by M. D. (David) Evans when working for the PNCC Planning Department. Evans was employed as planning assistant from 1955 to 1968, Deputy City Planner from 1968 ...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council, Planner's Department
Date: 1987
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. History of Foxton's former courthouse building, corner of Main Street and Avenue Road. In 1863 Ihākara Tukumaru, chief of Ngāti Raukawa's Ngāti Ngarongo hapu, gifted the site ...
Creator: Val Burr
Place: Foxton
Date: July 1, 2023
The Fitchett Street Convent was the third built for the Sisters of Mercy in Palmerston North. It was designed by Clere and Clere and built by Trevor Bros in 1925 -1926. It was originally part of a complex of buildings, with two primary schools and...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Fitchett Street, The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1982
Bastia Hill Water Tower was constructed in 1927 to service both Bastia and Durie Hill.
Creator: John Wheeler
Place: Bastia Hill, Whanganui
Date: March 2000
The new City Library, opened 1996, was originally built for the C M Ross Co. Ltd as a department store, in 1928. The original staircase and lift, as seen, is now not open to the public. The window overlooks the newly constructed rampway entrance t...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: 4 The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1996
This 18-20 roomed house was built by William Coomb’s wife Alice upon returning to Palmerston North after her husband's death in Hastings in 1907. Known by the family as 'Birchanger', it was designed by C W Blackbourn as a replica of their Hawkes B...
Creator: Nina Coombs
Place: 537 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1920 to circa 1929
This 18-20 roomed house was built by William Coomb’s wife Alice upon returning to Palmerston North after her husband's death in Hastings in 1907. Known by the family as 'Birchanger', it was designed by C W Blackbourn as a replica of their Hawkes B...
Creator: Nina Coombs
Place: 544 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1920 to circa 1929
This 18-20 roomed house was built by William Coomb’s wife Alice upon returning to Palmerston North after her husband's death in Hastings in 1907. Known by the family as 'Birchanger', it was designed by C W Blackbourn as a replica of their Hawkes B...
Creator: Nina Coombs
Place: 544 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1920 to circa 1929
The new City Library was originally built as the C M Ross department store in The Square, in 1928, and was also owned and operated by Milne and Choyce, DIC and Arthur Barnett. It was bought by the City Council and renovated as the Public Library, ...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: 4 The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1996
Presentation: Council's role in heritage protection and management by Palmerston North City Council Planner Victoria Edmonds as part of the 13th Local History Week 2020.
Creator: Raphael Cardoso
Place: Palmerston North City, Palmerston North
Date: 2020
Caccia Birch House was designed by L. G. West and built for Jacob Nannestad, a sawmiller, in about 1892. After being sold to Jack Strang in 1903 the house was extensively enlarged, both by him and by the New Zealand Government during the time it w...
Creator: Peter Patten
Place: 130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: December 1988
Caccia Birch House was designed by L. G. West and built for Jacob Nannestad, a sawmiller, in about 1892. After being sold to Jack Strang in 1903 the house was extensively enlarged, both by him and by the New Zealand Government during the time it...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: 130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: circa 2012
The Regent Theatre was built by the Australasian cinema and theatre chain J.C. Williamson Limited. Williamson's began its New Zealand operation in 1926. The theatre, one of several Regents built throughout New Zealand and Australia at this time, w...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council
Place: 53 Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: November 8, 1996 to June 5, 1997
Caccia Birch House was designed by L. G. West and built for Jacob Nannestad, a sawmiller, in about 1892. After being sold to Jack Strang in 1903 the house was extensively enlarged, both by him and by the New Zealand Government during the time it w...
Creator: Peter Patten
Place: 130 Te Awe Awe Street, Palmerston North
Date: December 1988
Caccia Birch House was designed by L. G. West and built for Jacob Nannestad, a sawmiller, in about 1892. After being sold to Jack Strang in 1903 the house was extensively enlarged, both by him and by the New Zealand Government during the time it w...
Creator: Peter Patten
Place: 130 Te Awe Awe Street, Palmerston North
Date: December 1988
The Scottish Kirk was constructed in Parewanui, near Bulls by Presbyterian settlers from Scotland in 1862. In addition to doubled skin walls, gun portals were also incorporated on two sides of the church in order to provide protection due to tensi...
Creator: Peter Patten
Place: Tangimoana
Date: July 1998
The Scottish Kirk was constructed in Parewanui, near Bulls by Presbyterian settlers from Scotland in 1862. In addition to doubled skin walls, gun portals were also incorporated on two sides of the church in order to provide protection due to tensi...
Creator: Peter Patten
Place: Tangimoana
Date: July 1998
A close up of a gunport at the Scottish Kirk in Tangimoana. The Scottish Kirk was constructed in Parewanui, near Bulls by Presbyterian settlers from Scotland in 1862. In addition to doubled skin walls, gun portals were also incorporated on two sid...
Creator: Peter Patten
Place: Tangimoana
Date: July 1998
Built in 1906, the Post Office on the corner of The Square and Main Street was Palmerston North’s fourth In 1988, when Telecom and Postbank became separate entities, the building ceased to be the Post Office. It currently operates as a restaurant...
Creator: G W Shailer
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1927
This photograph shows the opening of Palmerston North Technical School on the 29th September 1909, corner of King Street and Duke (now Princess) Street. This building is now used by the Universal College of Learning (UCOL).
Creator: Unknown
Place: Princess Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1909