This image is believed to have been taken by Palmerston North Engineer Edwin Daniel Berry or his son Frank, on a trip to Auckland.
Creator: Berry Family
Place: Parnell, Auckland
Date: 1910s
This image comes from a collection of glass negatives found in the attic of 'Lovelock's cottage' by 'Keebles Farm' near Massey University. The people in the images are possibly the Lovelock family, but their identities have not been confirmed.
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1890 to 1910
Lombard Street is one of the older streets of Palmerston North. The land this house is on was listed as being owned by Thomas Hall, a wheeler, in the 1897 Valuation Roll. The house probably dates from about this time, and was owned by William Sidd...
Creator: E Creamer
Place: 25 Lombard Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
Charles Nicholas Rowe arrived in the Rongotea District in 1874, establishing a sawmill in what is known as Rowe’s Line. This large house was built from timber supplied from the mill and was probably constructed during the 1880s. It is still stand...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1900
This house in Rongotea, which was originally built for John Jarvis, suffered fire damange and was partially rebuilt. For an earlier image of the structure, see 2014P_Rng68_007666.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Rongotea
Date: circa 1920
These two-storied residences are typical architecture of the 1930s. It was previously thought that one of them might be the former home of Thomas Grigg, the undertaker, and situated on the left-hand side of Fitzherbert Avenue, but this was incorrect.
Creator: Evening Post, Wellington
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1935
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
This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on December 24 1979 with the caption, "Tenants are now moving into seven newly completed Housing Corporation cluster houses near the Church Street-West Street corner. The E...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Corner of Church Street and West Street, Palmerston North
Date: December 1979
This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on December 24 1979 with the caption, "Tenants are now moving into seven newly completed Housing Corporation cluster houses near the Church Street-West Street corner. The E...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Corner of Church Street and West Street, Palmerston North
Date: December 1979
This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on December 24 1979 with the caption, "Tenants are now moving into seven newly completed Housing Corporation cluster houses near the Church Street-West Street corner. The E...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Corner of Church Street and West Street, Palmerston North
Date: December 1979
This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on December 24 1979 with the caption, "Tenants are now moving into seven newly completed Housing Corporation cluster houses near the Church Street-West Street corner. The E...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Near corner of Church and West Street, Palmerston North
Date: December 1979
This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on December 24 1979 with the caption, "Tenants are now moving into seven newly completed Housing Corporation cluster houses near the Church Street-West Street corner. The E...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Corner of Church Street and West Street, Palmerston North
Date: December 1979
This house is located at 125 Fitzherbert Avenue, between Ferguson and College Streets. In the 1980s it was accorded Category 2 status in the New Zealand Historic Places Trust register for its architectural significance.
Creator: E Creamer
Place: 125 Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
Previously unidentified, this grand house was known as 'Oakhurst', and was the home of Mr. J Goring-Johnston. The estate was large enough to front both College Street and Long Melford Road and was considered a stately accomodation for Prime Minist...
Creator: A Rickard, Palmerston North
Place: Long Melford Road, Palmerston North
Date: 1911
This house was built 1905 - 1906 for Elizabeth and James Alfred Nash. Nash was both a Mayor and MP for Palmerston North. In 1914 it was sold to T R Moore who named it 'Waimarama'. The house covers 5000 square feet, is built of rimu and kauri and h...
Creator: E Creamer
Place: 46 Alfred Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
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
The homes at 75, 77, 79 and 81 Victoria Avenue were built in 1904 – 1905. 81 Victoria Avenue was removed to make way for Tiraumea Street.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: unknown
119 Savage Crescent is part of a planned housing project undertaken by the New Zealand Government in the late 1930s to early 1940s. When the house was offered for sale in 1957, the then tenants purchased this property from the Housing Corporation ...
Creator: Gordon Family
Place: 119 Savage Crescent, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1957
Caccia Birch 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, known as 'Woodhey', was extensively enlarged, both by him and by the New Zealand Government during ...
Creator: Lesley Courtney - Palmerston North City Council
Place: 130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: October 5, 2011
This photograph is taken from the south bank of the Hokowhitu Lagoon which is seen in the foreground. Built for Jacob Nannestad, a sawmiller, the house was bought by John Henderson Pollock Strang in 1903. In 1921 it was sold to William Caccia Birc...
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios,
Place: 130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: 1903
'Dania' was the home of Charles Dahl (1856-1929), a manufacturer of Palmerston North. Dahl was a Danish immigrant who came to Palmerston North in 1885 and set up a canvas and tent making business. previously hea had set up the first store in Rongo...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Princess Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1925
This house is located at 68 Heretaunga Street. It is typical of 1930s architecture.
Creator: Evening Post, Wellington
Place: 68 Heretaunga Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1937
This art deco building was on the left or northward side of College Street, between Ranfurly and Ada Streets (opposite Union Street). It was designed as two flats for Miss Charlotte Eliot Warburton by Reginald Thorrold-Jaggard, a local architect i...
Creator: Unknown
Place: 349 College Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1938
Carlton Avenue was designed as a 'garden street'. 8 Carlton Avenue (on left) was built in 1930. Its first owner was W H Stephens. 9 Carlton Avenue (on right) was built in 1928-1929 and its first owner was D H Cook. The roof as seen was remodelled ...
Creator: Evening Post, Wellington
Place: 8 and 9 Carlton Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1935
178b Fitzherbert Avenue was the home of John Coulson Fowler, who came to New Zealand in 1879.
Creator: Unknown
Place: 178B Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: 1960s
'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
'The Wattles' was constructed in 1887 and was demolished in 1967. The hall of the house was situated on the ground floor just inside the front door. On the left can be seen the door to the drawing room, while in the center is a passage leading to ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Corner of College and Linton Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1890
This house was designed by Reginald T Jaggard, a lcoal architect for Mr C A Small, as a 'Hanoverian House' in 1933. It was built by F J Poman. Plans held in Ian Matheson City Archives: CA Thorrold Jaggard, contract 507.
Creator: Unknown
Place: 67 Rongopai Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1935
This block of four flats, designed by Reginald Thorrold-Jaggard, a local architect, was constructed for Miss Norah Grant in 1936. Plans and contract held in CA: Thorrold Jaggard, contract 604. Renumbered as 235 Broadway Avenue.
Creator: Unknown
Place: 201 Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1941