A well-known New Plymouth firm retailing interior decorating supplies, Darby & Hannan. Their store was originally on Brougham Street, in Skinner's Buildings beside the Taranaki Hotel (later the Royal).
A building permit for this building was issued to Darby & Hannnan Ltd. on 17 April 1928. The builders were Jones & Sandford with an estimated cost of £7,300.
The building was completed and occupied by the end of year, receiving praise from the Taranaki Daily News on 1 December 1928.
Darby & Hannan were long-time supporters of local painter, Bernard Aris.
Related items:
Town Section 894, Taranaki Land Deed Index I1 Page 577 and I5 Page 85. (Archives New Zealand)
Taranaki DP3749 Sheet 1 (1919), ICS Pre 300,000 Cadastral Plan Index (Imaged by LINZ)
Darby & Hannan's Brougham Street Shop (Interior), A souvenir: views of New Plymouth 1922-23 (TRCGC993.12 SOU)
Darby & Hannan Advertisement (Taranaki Herald 29 March 1941)
New Plymouth CBD Heritage Inventory Entry, Chris Cochran, New Plymouth CBD Heritage Inventory (1995).
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