Memorial Square Community Rooms Napier 2020

Memorial Square Community Rooms (former Women’s Rest), 5 Clive Square East, Napier, 2020

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Description

Built in 1925
Designed in Prairie style by architect Louis Hay

Text on signs –

1 –

“WOMEN’S REST

CITIZENS
ADVICE
BUREAU”

6 –

“MEMORIAL SQUARE COMMUNITY ROOMS
IN COMMEMORATION OF THE CELEBRATION OF
100 YEARS WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE
THESE COMMUNITY FACILITIES – INCLUDING THE FORMER
WOMEN’S RESTROOMS – WERE EXTENSIVELY RENOVATED
OFFICIALLY OPENED BY THE DEPUTY MAYOR OF NAPIER CITY
CR ANNE TOLLEY J.P.
31 JULY 1993”

7 –

“DESTRYOED BY EARTHQUAKE
1931
REBUILT – 1934

WOMEN’S REST
“REPOSE IS THE CRADLE OF POWER”
ERECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF NAPIER IN COMMEMORATION OF
CITIZENS OF THIS TOWN WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 – 1918
THIS STONE WAS LAID ON 24TH OCTOBER 1925 BY
HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL SIR CHARLES FERGUSSON. BARONET: L.L.D., G.C.M.G.; K.C.B., D.S.O., M.V.O.
GOVERNOR GENERAL OF NEW ZEALAND”

 

Location

Clive Square, Napier

Format of the original

Digital photograph

Date published

November 2020

Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Christina McRae

People

  • J A Louis Hay

Accession number

491825

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