Hand-tinted postcard of the Square

Description

Looking across the Square to Church Street East and Fitzherbert Avenue. The railway line is visible over the tops of the trees. The buildings are: [1] The Club Hotel on the extreme left (yellow building). [2] W F Durward, drapers (on site from 1907-1915). [3] J A Nash's store (Palmerston North Mayor, 1908-1923). [4] Occidental Hotel built in 1887, destroyed by fire 1891, rebuilt and again destroyed by fire in 1927.

Identification

Object type

Postcard

Relation

Public Photograph Collection Sq 61

Date

circa 1902

Digitisation id

2014P_Sq61_008854

Format

Postcard

Held in

Coolstore