Two houses on the south-western corner of Church and Albert Streets,, 2022. The house on the left was relocated.

(Photo taken through security fence)

Creator:      Ben Foster
Place:          528 and 530 Church Street
Date:          October 8, 2022

This house sat empty across from 123 Albert Street. In it's last months, it was hit by an out-of-control car (hence the boards). It then burned down on the 30th of November 2022, and demolished soon after.

Creator:      Ben Foster
Place:          530A Church Street
Date:          October 8, 2022

This ten-page report was prepared for the Town Planning Office of the PNCC. The purpose of the report was "to examine the residential site building coverage requirements as laid down in the Palmerston North CIty Council Code of Ordinance. The ma...

Creator:      Peter Crawford, PNCC Town Planning Office
Date:          December 1970

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

Bernard Cox (1905 - 1970) was a Palmerston North architect. The houses designed by Cox are important as examples of modernism, a major twentieth century movement that revolutionised the way houses are designed and constructed and which expressed t...

Creator:      Margaret Tate - Manawatu Branch of New Zealand Histroic Places Trust
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 2001

It is thought this housing development may be part of Savage Crescent, with the near road Mansford Place. The brick house on the far left could be 127 Savage Crescent.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1940

This house was built in 1905 by Mr John Hankins, a solicitor with Hankins, Fitzherbert and Abraham. In 1910 the house was bought by Mr Robert McNab, a prominent New Zealand historian who had a fire-proof concrete library added to the house. The ho...

Creator:      Evening Post, Wellington
Place:          Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1920

This home, probably in the vicinity of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company's line between Longburn and Wellington, consisted of a tent with a "lean-to" kitchen of sacking and timber slabs. The family is unidentified.

Creator:      Wrigglesworth and Binns, Wellington
Date:          circa 1880 to circa 1899

An aerial view looking down College Street towards Awapuni. The corner of Pitama Road and College Street is in the foreground.

Creator:      Palmerston North City Council
Place:          College Street, Palmerston North
Date:          2019-06-19T00:00:00+00:00

The flood waters shown here on Grey Street and unidentified corner.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Grey Street, Palmerston North
Date:          July 13, 1956

Ruahine Street runs along the bottom of the photograph, with Church Street on the left. Ferguson Street is to the right. Rostrata' maternity home can be seen on the corner of Ruahine and Ferguson Streets at the top left. In the centre of the block...

Creator:      Argosy Industrial Photos
Place:          Terrace End, Palmerston North
Date:          1960 to 1963

Photograph shows flooding of the new housing area in Takaro, including the flooded Mangaone Stream. Streets shown are Birmingham, Gloucester, Seddon and Botanical Roads.

Creator:      Royal New Zealand Airforce
Place:          Takaro, Palmerston North
Date:          January 1953

Fifth photograph, in a series of aerial shots, showing what was to become the Awapuni suburb. Botanical Road runs through the centre of the photograph to the Palmerston North Golf Club Golf . The Manawatu River can be seen in the foreground. In 19...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Awapuni, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1955 to circa 1960

An aerial view of College Street looking towards West End. The corner of Nairn Crescent and College Street is in the foreground.

Creator:      Palmerston North City Council
Place:          College Street, Palmerston North
Date:          2019-06-19T00:00:00+00:00

The photograph shows flooding at the edge of Hokowhitu. Streets shown are lower Ruahine, Windsor, Salisbury and Eton Place.

Creator:      Royal New Zealand Airforce
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          January 1953

Church Street runs down the bottom of photograph, with Ferguson Street parallel to the top of the photograph. Ruahine Street to the right and Fitzroy to the left. At centre of the block can be seen Jensen's Pit, which was then being filled in.

Creator:      Argosy Industrial Photos
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1960s

The centre street (running straight) is Ruahine Street, with East Street running of it to the bottom of the photograph. At the centre top is Hokowhitu Domain on Albert Street, with Hokowhitu School to its right. Between Albert and Ruahine Streets ...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date:          1960s