This image is believed to have been taken by Palmerston North Engineer Edwin Daniel Berry or his son Frank, on a trip to Auckland.

Creator:      Berry Family
Place:          Auckland
Date:          1910s

This image comes from a collection of glass negatives found in the attic of 'Lovelock's cottage' by 'Keebles Farm' near Massey University. The people in the images are possibly the Lovelock family, but their identities have not been confirmed.

Creator:      Unknown
Date:          1890 to 1910

Two houses on the south-western corner of Church and Albert Streets,, 2022. The house on the left was relocated.

(Photo taken through security fence)

Creator:      Ben Foster
Place:          528 and 530 Church Street
Date:          October 8, 2022

Photo of the house at 512 Church Street before it was removed / demolished

Creator:      Ben Foster
Place:          512 Church Street
Date:          June 12, 2021

This house sat empty across from 123 Albert Street. In it's last months, it was hit by an out-of-control car (hence the boards). It then burned down on the 30th of November 2022, and demolished soon after.

Creator:      Ben Foster
Place:          530A Church Street
Date:          October 8, 2022

The three houses shown here today have the street numbers (left to right) 71, 73 and 75b Jickell Street. They are viewed from the corner with Hardie Street.

This photograph comes from a set of images donated to the Ian Matheson City Archives duri...

Creator:      Unknown
Date:          1950s

Lombard Street is one of the older streets of Palmerston North. The land this house is on was listed as being owned by Thomas Hall, a wheeler, in the 1897 Valuation Roll. The house probably dates from about this time, and was owned by William Sidd...

Creator:      E Creamer
Place:          25 Lombard Street, Palmerston North
Date:          1981

Mr George William Shailer was a photographer in Palmerston North 1881-1893. His studio and residence was situated on section 658, Main Street east. The building was demolished 1965.

Creator:      George W Shailer
Place:          Main Street East, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1890

Roy Street, near Tremaine Avenue intersection, 1953 flood.

Creator:      Clarice Parlane
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1953

"A film believed to have been taken by Rod Matheson.

00:00 - 4:15 - 'City of Wheels'

4:16 - 815 - Family images. The film cannister index reads: ""Rachel, Judy. Tony, 277 College Street, the Clothiers, Bill Davis, Jim Hollis, Cat Mercer, Moving ...

Creator:      Rod Matheson
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1960s

This photograph comes from a set of images donated to the Ian Matheson City Archives during a competition in the 1950s. Many of the houses in the set are identified, but many are unknown.

Creator:      Unknown
Date:          1950s

Two young girls stand on the veranda of this villa, thought to be 'Tuatahi' in Williams Terrace on the Fitzherbert hill area in Palmerston North.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          unknown

Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. The story of historic home Whare Rata, later named Wharerata, and the Russell family who lived there in the early 20th century. The portrait of Arthur Russell mentioned...

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          March 17, 2007

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24 November 1956: "Firemen of the Palmerston North Fire Brigade had a difficult fight to gain control of the flames which gutted the upper storey of this house in Colleg...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          College Street, Palmerston North
Date:          November 24, 1956

This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on December 24 1979 with the caption, "Tenants are now moving into seven newly completed Housing Corporation cluster houses near the Church Street-West Street corner. The E...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Corner of Church Street and West Street, Palmerston North
Date:          December 1979

This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on December 24 1979 with the caption, "Tenants are now moving into seven newly completed Housing Corporation cluster houses near the Church Street-West Street corner. The E...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Corner of Church Street and West Street, Palmerston North
Date:          December 1979

This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on December 24 1979 with the caption, "Tenants are now moving into seven newly completed Housing Corporation cluster houses near the Church Street-West Street corner. The E...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Corner of Church Street and West Street, Palmerston North
Date:          December 1979

This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on December 24 1979 with the caption, "Tenants are now moving into seven newly completed Housing Corporation cluster houses near the Church Street-West Street corner. The E...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Near corner of Church and West Street, Palmerston North
Date:          December 1979

This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on December 24 1979 with the caption, "Tenants are now moving into seven newly completed Housing Corporation cluster houses near the Church Street-West Street corner. The E...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Corner of Church Street and West Street, Palmerston North
Date:          December 1979

This house is located at 125 Fitzherbert Avenue, between Ferguson and College Streets. In the 1980s it was accorded Category 2 status in the New Zealand Historic Places Trust register for its architectural significance.

Creator:      E Creamer
Place:          125 Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          1981

This photograph comes from a set of images donated to the Ian Matheson City Archives during a competition in the 1950s. Many of the houses in the set are identified, but many are unknown.

In 2023 this property was identified as 567 Featherston St...

Creator:      Unknown
Date:          1950s

Flooding at Richmond Escolme Harrison's residence in Albert Street. R E Harrison was a nurseryman of Hokowhitu, Palmerston North, and after the flood the family was never return to this home. the house is now the Village Inn in Hokowhitu. In May 1...

Creator:      Hector Mylroi
Place:          364 Albert Street, Palmerston North
Date:          May 4, 1941

The homestead near Palmerston North was built by (probably) Henry J Mason. It belonged to Donald Manson. In the 1920s Hugh Gillies, a stock buyer for the Gear Meat Company, lived there with his wife Millie Manson (Donald’s adopted daughter). He wa...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1898

This photograph was created by William James Young in the early 20th century and is part of the Young collection. Since publication to Manawatū Heritage, this image has been identified as Villa Maria Boarding house and School in Whanganui, c.1900....

Creator:      William James Young
Date:          1900 to 1932

Pictured is the house at 31 Morris Street. It was demolished in the 48 hours following this photo. The house was built in the 1920s.

Creator:      Ben Foster
Place:          31 Morris Street, Palmerston North
Date:          May 17, 2021

This house was positioned behind the building at 201 Broadway, which at times housed a Doctors', a cafe, and a restaurant.  The house was possibly once owned by the Marist Brothers, but was rented as a student flat during the time this pho...

Creator:      David Foster
Place:          203 Broadway Ave
Date:          1987

The homes at 75, 77, 79 and 81 Victoria Avenue were built in 1904 – 1905. 81 Victoria Avenue was removed to make way for Tiraumea Street.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          unknown

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, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1957

These photographs show the back entrance to the Caccia Birch House kitchen. Iimprovements were made to this entrance at the back of the house in 2020.

Caccia Birch House was designed by L. G. West and built for Jacob Nannestad, a sawmiller, in ab...

Creator:      PNCC
Place:          130 Te Awe Awe Street, Palmerston North
Date:          November 23, 2020

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