Municipal Theatre Napier 2021
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Description
Built in 1937, by WM Angus Ltd
Designed in Art Deco style by architect JT Watson (Napier)
Text on signs –
1 –
“MUNICIPAL THEATRE
NAPIER MUNICIPAL THEATRE
PORT OF NAPIER FOYER”
3 –
“DANCING
QUEEN
A TRIBUTE TO ABBA
LET’S ‘ABBA’ PARTY
24 NOV 2020
NAPIER MUNICIPAL THEATRE
NAPIER MUNICIPAL THEATRE
PAN PAC FOYER”
5 –
“THE NAPIER MUNICIPAL THEATRE
Fully re-developed over a four year programme
including the new Pan Pac Foyer
was officially re-opened by
His Excellency
The Rt.Hon. SIR MICHAEL HARDIE BOYS
GNZM, GCMG
GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF NEW ZEALAND
3 MAY 1997”
6 –
“THIS STONE WAS LAID
BY
Mrs. C. O. MORSE.
MAYORESS OF NAPIER
ON THE 24TH DAY OF NOVEMBER 1937.
J.T. WATSON R.I.A.A.
ARCHITECT
W.M. ANGUS LTD
BUILDERS.”
7 –
“THIS STONE WAS LAID
BY
J. VIC[?] WN ESOQ. M.P.
THIS STONE
IS THE FOUNDATION STONE
OF THE
MUNICIPAL THEATRE
WHICH STOOD ON THIS SITE AND WAS
DESTROYED BY EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE
ON THE 3RD. FEBBRUARY, 1931.
[?] PITT [?] BROS
[?] CHITECT CON[?] ORS
MR. M. MURRAY
TOWN CLERK”
Location
Tennyson Street, NapierFormat of the original
Digital photographDate published
2021People
- William McKenzie Angus
Accession number
492177Supporters and sponsors
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