This villa at 135 Powderham Street was built for Arthur Mofflin about 1900.
Mofflin was a cabinetmaker and advertisements indicate that he had owned land near the corner of Powderham and Dawson Streets since at least 1880 - see also Taranaki Land Deed Index links below. He also assumed responsibility - from the architect James Sanderson - for supervising the final phase of the construction of the band rotunda in Pukekura Park in 1890.
He was still living at this address when he died in 1928.
The house was demolished in April 2016 and replaced by a commercial building.
Related items:
Town Section 304, Taranaki Land Deed Index I1 page 284. (Archives New Zealand)
Town Section (Part) 304, Taranaki Land Deed Index I5 page 584. (Archives New Zealand)
Town Section 305, Taranaki Land Deed Index I1 page 157. (Archives New Zealand)
Taranaki DP1727 Sheet 1 (1901), ICS Pre 300,000 Cadastral Plan Index (Imaged by LINZ).
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