These images showing Caccia Birch House undergoing repairs are part of a file compiled by M. D. (David) Evans when working for the PNCC Planning Department. Evans was employed as planning assistant from 1955 to 1968, Deputy City Planner from 1968 ...
Creator: Palmerston North City Council, Planner's Department
Date: 1987
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. After World War 1, the Sheep Owners' Association of New Zealand brought sons of British navy war personnel to New Zealand to be trained as farm cadets. They were trained and r...
Creator: Russell Poole
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 12, 2023
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Concrete log fences are almost a unique Palmerston North feature. There are some 30 homes throughout the city with the fences, built in the 1920s. The most recognised of the f...
Creator: Dorothy Pilkington
Date: May 25, 2024
Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. The history of Siberia, once a grand homestead located about 16 kilometres from Ashhurst.
Creator: Tina White
Place: Manawatū
Date: September 14, 2019
Black and White photographs of Caccia Birch taken pre-restoriation circa 1980. The purpose of the photographs was to show the state of the house and grounds before submissions were made to council and the Ministry of Works.
First built in 1892 by...
Creator: PNCC
Place: 130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1980
Caccia Birch was designed by L G West and built for Jacob Nannestad, a sawmiller, in about 1892. After being sold to Jack Strang in 1903 the house, known as 'Woodhey', was extensively enlarged, both by him and by the New Zealand Government during ...
Creator: Lesley Courtney - Palmerston North City Council
Place: 130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: October 5, 2011
Black and White photographs of Caccia Birch taken pre-restoriation circa 1980. The purpose of the photographs was to show the state of the house and grounds before submissions were made to council and the Ministry of Works.
First built in 1892 by...
Creator: PNCC
Place: 130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1980
Caccia Birch, as it is known today, was designed by L G West and built for Jacob Nannestad, a sawmiller, in about 1892. After being sold to Jack Strang in 1903 the house was extensively enlarged, both by him and by the New Zealand Government durin...
Creator: E Creamer
Place: 130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: December 1981
Caccia Birch, as it is known today, was designed by L G West and built for Jacob Nannestad, a sawmiller, in about 1892. After being sold to Jack Strang in 1903 the house was extensively enlarged, both by him and by the New Zealand Government durin...
Creator: E Creamer
Place: 130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: December 1981
Black and White photographs of Caccia Birch taken pre-restoriation circa 1980. The purpose of the photographs was to show the state of the house and grounds before submissions were made to council and the Ministry of Works.
First built in 1892 by...
Creator: PNCC
Place: 130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1980
Nancey Kinross (front right) is seen here with some friends outside her newly restored house at 56 Brightwater Terrace. The house was built in 1880 and is notable as a typical example of 1880s architecture. Nancey bought the house in 1979 and sinc...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: 56 Brightwater Terrace, Terrace End, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
Caccia Birch, as it is known today, was designed by L G West and built for Jacob Nannestad, a sawmiller, in about 1892. After being sold to Jack Strang in 1903 the house was extensively enlarged, both by him and by the New Zealand Government durin...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: 130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: 1967
This cottage, built in 1880, belonged to Nancy Kinross in 1979 who restored it. The cottage is listed in Category 2 of the city register of historic buildings.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: 56 Brightwater Terrace, Terrace End, Palmerston North
Date: September 17, 1979
The Open Day on March 5, 1978 was a joint effort by the Caccia Birch Preservation Society and the local Jaycees, to gauge public opinion on the property’s future. A restored park-phaeton buggy took pride of place on the Open Day. The house was bui...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: 130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: March 6, 1978
This two storey house was built for Joseph Beale in 1893. It was then sold to Andrew Guy in 1899. Guy was a member of a prominent family in Buteshire, Scotland and became a well-known solicitorand founder of the legal firm now known as Cooper, Rap...
Creator: E Creamer
Place: 16 Guy Avenue, Takaro, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
A short history of the pioneer cottage, "Totaranui," now located at Te Manawa.
Creator: Mina McKenzie for Manawatu Museum
Date: 1975
A garden party held for Palmerston North's old identities in the grounds of Caccia Birch. From left: Mr G Rennie (former Palmerston North Mayor), unknown, Mayor Desmond Black, the Governor General A Porritt. There were 350 guests in attendance.
Creator: John Cleland
Place: Caccia Birch, 130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: March 1971
The house was constructed by Jacob Nannestad c1892 and sold to John Strang in 1903. In 1921 the Strang's sold the property to W.C. Caccia Birch. It remained in the Caccia Birch family until gifted to the Government in 1941. After various uses it w...
Creator: Unknown
Place: 130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1905
Black and White photographs of Caccia Birch taken pre-restoriation circa 1980. The purpose of the photographs was to show the state of the house and grounds before submissions were made to council and the Ministry of Works.
First built in 1892 by...
Creator: PNCC
Place: 130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1980
Caccia Birch, as it is known today, was designed by L G West and built for Jacob Nannestad, a sawmiller, in about 1892. After being sold to Jack Strang in 1903 the house was extensively enlarged, both by him and by the New Zealand Government durin...
Creator: E Creamer
Place: 130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
Black and White photographs of Caccia Birch taken pre-restoriation circa 1980. The purpose of the photographs was to show the state of the house and grounds before submissions were made to council and the Ministry of Works.
First built in 1892 by...
Creator: PNCC
Place: 130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1980
Black and White photographs of Caccia Birch taken pre-restoriation circa 1980. The purpose of the photographs was to show the state of the house and grounds before submissions were made to council and the Ministry of Works.
First built in 1892 by...
Creator: PNCC
Place: 130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1980
Black and White photographs of Caccia Birch taken pre-restoriation circa 1980. The purpose of the photographs was to show the state of the house and grounds before submissions were made to council and the Ministry of Works.
First built in 1892 by...
Creator: PNCC
Place: 130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1980
Black and White photographs of Caccia Birch taken pre-restoriation circa 1980. The purpose of the photographs was to show the state of the house and grounds before submissions were made to council and the Ministry of Works.
First built in 1892 by...
Creator: PNCC
Place: 130 Te Awe Awe Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1980
This house was built in 1902 by Lawrence Laurenson for his family. The Laurenson family continued to occupy it at least until the 1980s. The Laurenson family emigrated from the Shetland Islands arriving on the ‘Avalanche’ in 1875. This building is...
Creator: E Creamer
Place: 451 College Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
This house was built in 1879 on a former sawmill site. Underneath the patio there were holes where they used to saw the logs, but these have since been filled in. In 1904 Elizabeth Mayo and her family moved in. They had 14 children and the boys li...
Creator: Maria Shiva for PNCC
Place: 56 Brightwater Terrace, Terrace End, Palmerston North
Date: November 18, 2018
178 Fitzherbert Avenue was built in 1881 for John Coulson Fowler, a storekeeper. The building has since been modernised.
Creator: Unknown
Place: 178 Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1960? to circa 1969?
Built for Jacob Nannestad, a sawmiller, the house was bought by John Henderson Pollock Strang in 1903 and extensively renovated and extended. During 1908-1910 the house was leased by Strang to the Crown for use as the residence of Lord Plunket, Go...
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios,
Place: 130 Te Awe Awe Street, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1910
Linton street is one of the older streets in Palmerston North. 70 Linton Street is listed in category 4 of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust register, for architectural significance.
Creator: E Creamer
Place: 70 Linton Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
'Cluny Park' was built in 1893 by Hobner Brothers for William Manson on the subdivision of his brother John’s estate. The outstanding feature of the homestead was the turret or belvedere on its roof, which was removed by Mr Carson between 1924 – 1...
Creator: Unknown
Place: 726 Rangitikei Line, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1924 to circa 1926