Built as Chatsworth House in 1916 for Mrs Caroline Howell as boarding house. Designed and built by Wanganui firm Messrs. Howell Bros. Later purchased by the Y.W.C.A. for a hostel, officially opened by the Governor-General, Lord Jellicoe on 28 October 1921. Given the name Clarke memorial Hostel in memory of the former mayor, James Clarke, who was killed in a plane crash in November 1920. See internet: http://ketenewplymouth.peoplesnetworknz.info/new_plymouth_buildings/topics/show /952-chatsworth-house-clarke-memorial-hostel
YWCA Clarke Memorial Hostel (New Plymouth, N.Z.)
Chatsworth House (New Plymouth, N.Z.), Clarke Memorial Hostel (New Plymouth, N.Z.), YWCA Hostel (New Plymouth, N.Z.)
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Split image of the Brae Muir Maternity Hospital, New Plymouth; and the New Plymouth YMCA
Date: Between 1923 and 1928
From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
By: Locke, Amy Sarah, -1934
Reference: Pan-2355-F
Description: Split image of two buildings in New Plymouth, taken by Robert Percy Moore 1) Angled view of a single-storeyed wooden building, the Brae Muir private maternity hospital run by Nurse A Locke. Entrance porch near the road on the right. There are four women on a roofed balcony on the left. Nurse Locke standing, with three women wearing dressing gowns sitting next to two babies' cots. Stone wall by the road, rustic arbour over the gate. 2) The Y.W.C.A. Clarke memorial Hostel. A two-storeyed rough-cast [?] building with a wide rounded arch over the entrance and two rounded arches on the verandah upstairs. Road in the foreground. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Nurse Lock [i.e. Locke] New Ply. 3-20x10; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] YMCA New Ply 3x20x10 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 119.4 cm