In 1908 the Mckenzie family acquired 300 acres of land in the Milson area, and this homestead was built, named Edinkillie for Roderick Mckenzie and family. The Mckenzie family resided at Edinkillie for 8 – 10 years before the house changed hands....
Creator: Elizabeth Creamer
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1981
The Pascal brothers, Claud and John, emigrated to New Zealand from France. They were involved in the flax industry c. 1890 - 1906. 'Brooklands' was the home of John Pascal, at Awahuri, Manawatu. The photo was copied from a McLennan/Pascal album. A...
Creator: Roy McLennan
Place: Awahuri, Manawatu
Date: 1888
Rear of Hewitts Homestead, with large gardens, mature trees. 150 year old Oaks line the north of the property, with one in the centre of the land.
Creator: Vanessa Taylor
Place: 310 Hewitts Road, Linton
Date: April 26, 2022
At 395m3, Hewitt's Homestead is a large house. Originally an 8 bedroom home with 4 living areas, it has been altered over the years and now has 5 larger bedrooms with a dual aspect 'landing'.
Creator: Vanessa Taylor
Place: 310 Hewitts Road, Linton
Date: April 2022
Hewitts Homestead is a little piece of New Zealand history. Built for Capt. JDR Hewitt a retired naval officer and his family way back in 1888. It was one of the first large Homesteads to be built in the Palmerston North area and is still going st...
Creator: Vanessa Taylor
Place: 310 Hewitts Road, Linton
Date: May 15, 2022
The Pascal brothers, Claud and John, emigrated to New Zealand from France. They were involved in the flax industry c. 1890 - 1906. The photograph shows the families at the McLennan home at Oroua Downs, Manawatū. Photograph copied from McLennan/Pas...
Creator: Roy McLennan
Place: Oroua Downs
Date: 1889?
This homestead is located in Levin and was the home of Peter Stewart and Annie Whyte Dalrymple. Built in 1905 on lot 41 of the Horowhenua Block, the building is presently located in Queen Street, Levin.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Levin, Horowhenua
Date: 1905
Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. A review of articles from the Manawatū Journal of History, Volume 16 (2020). The journal, published annually, contains articles on the history of the wider Manawatū are...
Creator: Tina White
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 22, 2020
Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. The history of Siberia, once a grand homestead located about 16 kilometres from Ashhurst.
Creator: Tina White
Place: Manawatū
Date: September 14, 2019
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 30th November 1965 "A farmstead with some differences! This beautifully restored half-timbered building is the centre of the Marist Brothers' farm and seminary at Awahur...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Highden, Manawatu
Date: November 27, 1965
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 1912
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
'Highden' was designed by Frederick de Jersey Clere and built in 1898 for the Honourable Walter Woods Johnston. In 1903 a wing, designed by C T Natusch, was added. Highden was bought by the Society of Mary in 1923 and occupied by the Marist Brothe...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Awahuri
Date: circa September 2, 1967
Probable correct spelling of family name is “Gillies”, family of John Jarnie Gillies who lived in this house c 1914. Mr J J Gillies was the 2nd Manager of the first Creamery belonging to the NZ Farmers Union. About 1900 Mr Gillies was Manager of...
Creator: A S Aldrich
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1907 to circa 1910
This country home was built by William Manson, son of Donald Manson, born in 1829 in Tervally. William was married to Elizabeth Gladdens on 7th of September 1865, at Gromlers Creek near Mansfield, Victoria and they had nine children. In the photo...
Creator: Unknown
Place: 726 Rangitikei Line, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1894
Jens Larsen is shown here with his family outside their second house in Mauriceville West. Larsen, who built this house himself, also made and played violins. On one celebrated occasion he even improvised a concertina.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: 1880
This photograph shows the MacLennan Family outside of the family residence on the Oroua Downs Estate.John MacLennan started as estate manager of Oroua Downs in 1878. He was responsible for introducing Romney Marsh sheep to the estate. He was a fo...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1890 to circa 1899
Mr William Stills and his wife, Hannah, took up this farm at Peep-o-day on the Kimbolton Road, near Bluff Road, during the 1890s.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1902