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Rangitikei Street

Description: This postcard shows a view of Rangitikei Street from the Square. The building on the right is Crawford's Royal Hotel, which was established in Palmerston North about 1871. Over the years the building was repeatedly enlarged and improved. In 1915, the hotel was demolished and the Bank of New Zealand erected their premises on this site. The Royal Hotel's licence was transferred to a building further up Rangitikei Street to what had been Dawick's Buffet. Alongside the hotel is a two-storey brick building, once the site of the Bank of New South Wales, then the Phoenix Hotel (on the corner of King and Rangitikei Streets). This two-storey wooden building was replaced in 1911 by the Hotel Imperial, 30 Rangitikei Street, which was demolished in 1971 and replaced by the Commercial Union building. The next visible building is Dawick's Buffet (near the corner of King Street). The left side of the photograph shows the three-storied brick Clarendon Hotel, which was constructed in 1904, after fire had destroyed the earlier wooden hotel. Mr H Baker was the Proprietor.