Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. When Darren Trask started renovating his country cottage, he found historic newspapers dated 1887 in the wall linings. The cottage, address 1033B Napier Road, is class...

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          September 11, 2010

Black and White photographs of Caccia Birch taken pre-restoriation circa 1980. The purpose of the photographs was to show the state of the house and grounds before submissions were made to council and the Ministry of Works.

First built in 1892 by...

Creator:      PNCC
Place:          130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1980

Caccia Birch, as it is known today, 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 durin...

Creator:      E Creamer
Place:          130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          December 1981

Caccia Birch, as it is known today, 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 durin...

Creator:      E Creamer
Place:          130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          December 1981

This house was built by a German settler Johan Ax c 1876. Ax worked around the region including the Manawatu Gorge railway line and the Taonui sawmill. Upon his death in 1934, Ax gave the house to his widowed daughter, May Freeman, who stayed th...

Creator:      E Creamer
Place:          217 Grey Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1981

Black and White photographs of Caccia Birch taken pre-restoriation circa 1980. The purpose of the photographs was to show the state of the house and grounds before submissions were made to council and the Ministry of Works.

First built in 1892 by...

Creator:      PNCC
Place:          130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1980

Caccia Birch, as it is known today, 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 durin...

Creator:      E Creamer
Place:          130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          December 1981