Building of the Inglewood Technical School began in mid-1910 after a long and fraught fund-raising campaign. The school was officially opened on 6 April 1911 by Harold Trimble, an Education Board member.
By 1912 classes in "physiology and first aid, through millinery, dress-making, art, drawing, book-keeping, arithmetic, down to carpentry and joinery" were being advertised.
Originally, New Zealand's technical schools were for education beyond primary school level (present polytechnics are their immediate descendants). In later years they became associated with monthly (?) classes for both rural and urban upper-primary school students in woodworking (for boys) and homecraft (for girls) as secondary schools increasingly became involved in the post -primary technical education field.
The Inglewood Technical School closed about 1956 when Inglewood High School opened and upper-primary manual classes for students were transferred to the IHS.
In later years the hall was used by the local scouts and guides as a den until their new premises in Elliott Street were opened in June 1999. (Inside Inglewood, 17 June 1999)
The technical school building was bought by artists, Dale Copeland and Paul Hutchinson, who moved it to their property at Puniho where it has become Paul's studio.
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