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
Creator: Vera L McLennan-Boman, attributed to
Date: 1946 to 1954
Creator: Vera L McLennan-Boman, attributed to
Date: circa 1937
This view of Te Marae o Hine, The Square, looks towards the corner with Church Street West, showng All Saints' Church (built 1914 and the Grand Hotel (built 1906).
Creator: Evening Post, Wellington
Date: circa 1937
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 aerial view of Te Marae o Hine / The Square illustrates the distinct quadrant layout, originating from when Te Marae o Hine / The Square was four quadrants and a central strip separated by roads. Broadway corner is at top left and Coleman Mal...
Creator: Royal New Zealand Airforce
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1980s
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 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
Lakelet in the Square, looking towards the Post Office, with the bridge on the right and – just visible on the left – part of the second bandstand. The two figures on the bridge look as if they may be soldiers. The picture was sent ...
Creator: Unknown
Date: circa 1920
Three women crossing the bridge over the lakelet in The Square.
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1900
This photograph is part of a composite panorama of the Square, photographed from the Commercial Hotel, on the corner of Main Street and The Square, on a rainy day. In the foreground is the fountain garden and the gentleman's toilet. On the far lef...
Creator: L Martin
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
Looking across The Square to the Grand Hotel, built 1906. To the left can be seen the Occidental Hotel opposite the Bank of New Zealand, on the corner of Fitzherbert Avenue. In the foreground can be seen the statue of Te Peeti Te Awe Awe erected i...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1908
Aerial photograph of The Square, clearly showing the 4 quadrants and the railway section in the middle. The corner of Broadway and The Square is at the bottom of the photograph.
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1947
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
Looking across (what appears to be) Memorial Park on Napier Road, with the duck pond to the right and the playground in the background.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Memorial Park, Napier Road, Palmerston North
Date: 1990s
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: 1990s
This photograph shows All Saints Church from The Lakelet in The Square. This brick structure was constructed in 1914-1915 on the site of the old wooden All Saints Church. The Lakelet was constructed and developed by the Beautifying Society in Oct...
Creator: G R Kay
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1950
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: Ernest Denton
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: October 27, 1909
At top right is Rangitikei Street, on the corner of The Square. Through the centre of The Square can be seen the railway line, which ran down Main Street, on both sides of The Square, until it closed in 1964. The slight bend in the rail line in Th...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1960
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
The Butterfly Lakelet, see here from the Civic Administration Building, was constructed in 1909 by the then Beautification Society. The fountains were added in the 1960s.
Creator: Colin Rush
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1990s
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
Cannons were purchased by the Government in 1879 and installed at Fort Ngahauranga overlooking Port Nicholson, Wellington Harbour. The never fired a shot in anger and were obsolete by 1900. Two of these cannons were acquired by the Palmerston Nort...
Creator: Tanner Brothers
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1920 to circa 1929