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
'Highden' was designed by Frederick de Jersey Clere and built in 1898 for the Honourable Walter Woods Johnston. In 1903 a wing, designed by C T Natusch, was added. Highden was bought by the Society of Mary in 1923 and occupied by the Marist Brothe...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Awahuri
Date: circa September 2, 1967
'Highden' was designed by Frederick de Jersey Clere and built in 1898 for the Honourable Walter Woods Johnston. In 1903 a wing, designed by C T Natusch, was added. Highden was bought by the Society of Mary in 1923 and occupied by the Marist Brothe...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Awahuri
Date: June 26, 1976
Mr Arthur Harding initially leased the property, then in 1906 his wife Isabella bought the land and together they build the 18 roomed 'Siberia' homestead. Also built on the property were stables, garages, sheds, stores for livestock and agricultur...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Fitzherbert East Road, Ashhurst, Manawatu
Date: circa 1909 to circa 1915
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: E Creamer
Place: 544 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
This house was designed, probably by Reginald Thorrold-Jaggard, and built for Dr. G.A. Forrest in 1925. It became 187 Broadway Avenue in the late 1930s. The house was subsequently owned by two more doctors (Dr Wilson and Dr Swallow), all of whom ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1920 to circa 1929
The building occupied by the businesses of Lorraine Agar Designs and Creative Beauty Care. The building was said to be formerly a shop run by Andrew Jack. In the foreground can be seen the gravelled area lining the railway line down that ran down ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1968
This house was built on ten acres of land at 145 Rangitikei Street. In 1903 it was bought by Andrew Guy, a local barrister and solicitor. The Guy estate was subdivided in 1935, to form Guy Avenue and the house remained on one section of the origin...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: 16 Guy Avenue, Takaro, Palmerston North
Date: 1979