The Purangi boarding house was built by Frederick W Pennington in 1900 and operated for some years as a general store as well.
One front room was used as the local school until the official school was built in 1909.
The derelict building was demolished after it was seriously damaged in the massive 1990 flood in which the Waitara River rose to inundate all of the flat land of the valley.
Aitken and Webb in their publication Purangi (1891-1991) provide a detailed history of the Boarding House.
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