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Whytes Hotel, Main Street, Foxton

Kete Horowhenua2020-03-23T16:51:56+00:00
Whyte's Hotel has been a feature of the Foxton street-scape since 1876.
GPS latitude175.281281
GPS longitude40.473068
Location82 Main Street, Foxton

It has undergone several transformations since then and now houses the Foxton New World supermarket.

Photos of Whytes Hotel in Kete Horowhenua:

Manawatu Herald , 13 July 1893:

1879 - Whytes Hotel is large building on the left

 Whytes Hotel on left - circa 1900
Whytes Hotel survived the fire in 1912
 Whytes Hotel - undated photo
1918 - End of WWI
 Report from newspaper on Whyte's Fire, 1918

Whytes Hotel Foxton fire 31.8.1918
The hotel burnt to ground after fire broke out at 6.30pm in storeroom and soon spread.
The hotel had been built in 1876. It was claimed that the fire was caused by rats.

 		Fire - 1918
After the Fire
 Whyte's Hotel Fire mural - 2010:
Whites Hotel (middle distance) - circa 1920s

Transformation into New World Supermarket

Whyte's Hotel in 2010