Street Stories: Streets of Lansdowne
Cooper Street
Cooper Street was formed in 1920, and named after the developer, Alexander Cooper, a Masterton stock agent and auctioneer. When the Cooper Street extension was added in the late 1960s it was at first intended to call the new street Kauri Place, but the name was dropped and the extension retained Cooper’s name.
Pic: AJ Cooper picking grapes from his Lansdowne glasshouse.