These two 'star flats' were built between 1955-1965 as the National Party's attempt at medium density social housing. This was to reduce urban sprawl and appease the rural voting base. They were built all over the country. They were 3-4 storeys wi...

Creator:      Benjamin Foster
Place:          Corner of Botanical Road and Brentwood Ave, Palmerston North
Date:          July 10, 2020

The donor's family moved into this house in Savage Crescent on Christmas Eve 1939. This photograph was taken about six months later, with fences and gardens established. Saavge Crescent was developed by the Government as state housing 1937-1944. I...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          127 Savage Crescent, West End, Palmerston North
Date:          1940

Suburban street in Roslyn, Palmerston North. Note the house on upper left ("Rangi Marie" 3 Rangiora Avenue) listed by New Zealand Historic Places Trust. Rangimarie was the home of C M Ross, a prominent retailer in Palmerston North, for whom the Ro...

Creator:      F A Tier
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1950

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, West End, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1991

These photographs were used, as arranged, in a Palmerston North publicity Pamphlet (Palmerston North: The Model, Modern City" 1939, p 20). From top: 1 and 2: Manapouri Crescent (?); 3: Elmira Avenue (?); 152-172 Cook Street (newly completed state ...

Creator:      K H Shea
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1939