Today we have a guest post from Kate Jordan, a historian currently working at the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. She wrote about this building while completing her post-graduate studies in Museum and Heritage Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington. In downtown New Plymouth is a rather small, unassuming building. Its demolition has been raised…
Tag: New Plymouth
A Women’s Space
For International Women’s Day, I’m sharing some of the research I completed about this building, the Barrett Street Nurses’ Home in New Plymouth. It tells the story of a space planned, paid for and inhabited by women. It is also a useful lesson for heritage professionals like me about how the smallest and humblest details…
