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41-688: The Old South Brisbane Town Hall is the heritage-listed town hall of the Borough of South Brisbane , later the City of South Brisbane , Queensland, Australia. It is located at 263 Vulture Street (on the south-west corner of the intersection of Graham Street), South Brisbane , adjacent to Cumbooquepa , the residence of William Stephens , the Member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland and mayor of Borough of South Brisbane . In 1888
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123-468: A brass rail supported by wrought iron into the area for alderman and the area for the public, each served by its own entrance door. However, when the room was used for public meetings and functions, the dividing rail could be removed and a third large entrance was used to access the entire space. The area at the Vulture Street side of the upper floor comprised a committee room and a retiring room for
164-713: A historic house requires consulting the urban planning administration bureau, and the real estate administration bureau. As of 31 June 2011, there are 287 declared historic houses in Hangzhou, proclaimed as 5 batches. In the near future, it is going to issue the sixth batch which includes 51 historic houses. [REDACTED] Colombia : National monuments of Colombia ; (in Spanish) Monumentos Nacionales de Colombia [REDACTED] Comoros : National Committee of Intangible Cultural Heritage (Comoros) [REDACTED] Republic of
205-477: A rectangular grid with streets becoming 1.4 chains (27 metres). On Governor Gipps' visit to Brisbane Town in March 1842, Gipps remarked that Brisbane Town was "simply an ordinary provincial settlement", which would need no grand avenues. As a result, Gipps moved the planned width of Queen Street, along with other streets, back to 66 feet (20 metres), arguing that this change would mean that buildings could be kept out of
246-537: A tribute to General MacArthur. Tram services along Queen Street were converted to buses on 14 April 1969. In 1981, the part of the street between Albert Street and Edward Street was closed to traffic. This section was opened as the Queen Street Mall in 1982, in time for the Commonwealth Games . Later, the section between Albert Street and George Street was converted into an extension of
287-487: Is named after Queen Victoria . The western part of the street is covered by a new plaza at the base of Brisbane Square and underneath part of the western half is the Queen Street bus station . Queen Street is heavily built up with arcades , shops, hotels, offices and apartment high-rises such as MacArthur Central , Brisbane Square , Central Plaza , Aurora Tower , Treasury Casino , Wintergarden , Broadway on
328-481: Is no public hall within the building. Against it, the building was described as "one of the most ornate and elegant buildings in the city" and was constructed at a final cost of £11,000 and in a prominent position with a tall clock tower, typical of a town hall. It was commonly known as the South Brisbane Town Hall. The building was used for its original intended purposes from 1892 until 1925, when
369-500: Is not a town hall, and was never meant to be such, but merely offices for the accommodation of the municipal officials and the alderman, the expense of providing a town hall being quite unnecessary, looking at the several large unoccupied public halls in the borough and profiting by the lesson afforded by some suburban cities in the Southern colonies. The building is planned in a very simple manner...." Consistent with that claim, there
410-412: Is of heritage registers , inventories of cultural properties , natural and human-made, tangible and intangible , movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In many instances the pages linked below have as their primary focus the registered assets rather than the registers themselves. Where a particular article or set of articles on
451-1158: The Bundesdenkmalamt [REDACTED] Azerbaijan : State Register of Intangible Cultural Heritage Samples of Azerbaijan [REDACTED] Bahamas : Bahamas National Trust [REDACTED] Bahrain : Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities [REDACTED] Bangladesh : Cultural Heritage of Bangladesh and National Heritage Foundation of Bangladesh [REDACTED] Barbados : Barbados National Trust [REDACTED] Belarus : Cultural Properties of Belarus [REDACTED] Belgium : National Heritage Site (Belgium) ; (in Dutch) Lijsten van cultureel erfgoed [REDACTED] Benin : (in French) Liste du patrimoine mondial au Bénin [REDACTED] Bolivia : Bolivian cultural heritage [REDACTED] Bosnia : List of National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina , as maintained by
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533-596: The American Armed Services. As both sets of building were perched high above the street (particularly so for Somerville House), the Americans decided to create a ramp between them to avoid the need to walk up and down to the street. They removed a leadlight window from the upper storey (above the staircase) of the Town Hall to provide an access point for the ramp; the leadlight could not be found after
574-651: The Americans departed. After the war, the Town Hall was converted into residential flats, which were occupied by the families of council engineers recruited from England. In 1957, the building was extensively refurbished to be used as the Queensland Conservatorium of Music . Major restoration work was undertaken again in 1977 in preparation for the 1979 takeover of the building by the South Brisbane College of Technical and Further Education (now Southbank Institute of Technology ) as
615-731: The Borough of South Brisbane was established, independent of the Brisbane Municipal Council . In 1891, work commenced on the construction of the town hall. The building was officially opened on 1 July 1892 Although it was widely known as the "Town Hall", it was officially the South Brisbane Municipal Chambers . On 6 June 1892 the Brisbane Courier reported that: "It has been customary to refer to this building as town hall, but it
656-477: The City of South Brisbane was amalgamated into the City of Greater Brisbane. The building was then used by the amalgamated council as a Council Works Depot. The clock tower was installed in 1904 and was reported to be the first electrically-driven clock system in Australia. During World War II the old Town Hall and the neighbouring Cumbooquepa (now occupied and enlarged by Somerville House school) were occupied by
697-675: The Congo : National Inventory of the Cultural Heritage of the Democratic Republic of the Congo [REDACTED] Denmark : National Register of Sites and Monuments, as maintained by the Danish Agency for Culture [REDACTED] Djibouti : List of monuments of Djibouti Queen Street, Brisbane Queen Street is the main street of Brisbane , the capital of Queensland , Australia. It
738-911: The Congo : Protection of Cultural Heritage in the Republic of the Congo [REDACTED] Costa Rica (in Spanish) Monumento Nacional de Costa Rica [REDACTED] Croatia : Register of Protected Natural Values of the Republic of Croatia [REDACTED] Cuba : Consejo Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural [REDACTED] Cyprus : Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus [REDACTED] Czech : (in Czech) Seznam národních kulturních památek České republiky , (in German) Liste der Nationalen Kulturdenkmale Tschechiens , as featuring on MonumNet [REDACTED] Democratic Republic of
779-815: The Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales [REDACTED] China : Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level (全国重点文物保护单位), designated by State Administration of Cultural Heritage Sites Protected at the City Level of Hangzhou are districts, artifacts or buildings legally declared to be "protected". According to the "Regularations of historic districts and historic buildings in Hangzhou" effectivated from 1 January 2005, historic buildings are those artifacts or districts that have lasted more than 50 years, and of significant values for history, science, and art study. In Hangzhou, declaring
820-584: The Little Wonder store on Edward Street which destroyed 14 shops in Queen Street. This event later became known as Bulcock's Fire. On 1 December 1864, the Great Fire of Brisbane started within the cellar of a Queen Street drapery store which burnt down buildings bordering Queen Street, as well as Albert Street , Edward Street, George Street and Elizabeth Street. Brisbane Courier described
861-587: The Mall , The Myer Centre and QueensPlaza . Queen Street is also the location of Brisbane's General Post Office . Queen Street is the city's central road, partly covered by a pedestrian mall called the Queen Street Mall . It ends at the Victoria Bridge and is bounded by two of the Brisbane River 's central reaches. Uptown at the top of the mall is George Street . The next street parallel to
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943-605: The Synchronome Electrical Co. of Australasia Ltd. The basement which had an entrance at street level from Graham Street was used by workmen for the storage of tools and some materials. The pay office for the workmen was also located in the basement, which had a small flight of stairs giving access to the ground floor. The building was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. Heritage-listed This list
984-495: The alderman, both of which had balconies. On the other side of the council chambers where other council offices. Connecting the ground and upper floors is a staircase built with white marble for the steps and handrails with other elements made of cedar . The staircase had a large window, handpainted with a design that included the seal of the Corporation of South Brisbane , the work of Messrs Exton & Gough. The walls of
1025-457: The building. The Chamber Room (the former council chambers) is used for school functions and the office areas used for various administrative functions (enrolments, accounts, and development). In 2011, the school decided to call the building "The Chambers" to reflect its origins. In early 1890, a competition for the design of the municipal chambers was announced, despite the site for the building not having been decided. The competition required that
1066-654: The centre for its Extension Programs (e.g., evening classes in photography and belly-dancing ). In 1984 a replica leadlight window was created to replace the one lost in World War II. In 1984 the heritage value of the building was acknowledged in 1984 when it was listed by the National Trust of Australia , followed by listing in 1989 by the Australian Heritage Commission . On 15 June 1999, neighbouring Somerville House purchased
1107-517: The cost of the building be less than £5,000. Twenty designers were submitted and the winner was from architects Messrs John Hall And Son of Queen Street, Brisbane . The design was attributed to John Smith Murdoch who was later to become Commonwealth Deputy-General of Works and Chief Architect of the Commonwealth. By the end of 1890, the site had been purchased (£2600) on the south-west corner of Vulture Street and Graham Street at South Brisbane,
1148-429: The entrance to the building. The open portico at the entrance is decorated with a slate tablet with a frame of Oamaru stone which displays the opening date of the building and the names of the aldermen and other council officials. The ground floor vestibule was entered from the portico via a set of wrought iron gates, supplied by Messrs Crase & Co of Fortitude Valley . The vestibule gave access to two areas of
1189-494: The exterior. Building commenced in January 1891. Work proceeded for six months, when the contractor developed financial difficulties. The council then took over the construction of the building for three months, hoping the contractor would be able to resume the work, but this did not occur and new tenders were called to complete the building. The tenders for the various trades were won by: while Messrs Exton and Gough continued as
1230-738: The fire as "the whole of the business premises and private residences...were, in a couple of hours, reduced to a heap of ruins". On 9 December 1882, a demonstration of electricity was conducted with eight arc lights along Queen Street. Power was supplied by a 10 hp generator driven by a small engine in a foundry in Adelaide Street . This was Australia's first recorded use of electricity for public purposes. In 1885, Poul C. Poulsen opened his photographic studio at 7 Queen Street. Ada Driver trained at Poulson’s studio before opening her own photographic studio, ‘Ada Driver’s Studio’, at 51 Queen street in 1906. In 1902, part of Queen Street
1271-402: The ground floor via swing doors (featuring ornamental glazing). The first area comprised the public office connecting to the accountant's office (which included a strongroom fitted with a Milner's door). The public office featured cast iron columns and a series of high-mounted leadlight windows. The second ground floor area comprised a wide corridor giving access to three offices (the town clerk,
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1312-449: The hilly land had been cut away to create a level building site, albeit 12 feet (3.7 m) above the surrounding street, and tenders had been called for the construction of the building. On the last day of 1890, the mayor Arthur Morry signed a contract with builder Abraham James of Coorparoo for the cost of £6,999. The increased cost was because of a decision to add a basement and use stonework rather than cheaper concrete plasterwork for
1353-492: The mayor, and the engineer) and the engineering drawing office. The corridor had an ornamental tiled floor while the walls were cream with the lower wall (the dado ) being a terracotta colour, with white plaster ornamentation. The three offices had large windows (on the Graham Street side of the building) and stone mantelpieces over the corner fireplaces. Another strongroom was provided in the engineering drawing office for
1394-545: The pedestrian mall, timed to coincide with Brisbane's Expo '88 . A number of buildings were demolished on Queen Street in the 1980s, including Her Majesty's Theatre , the Wintergarden cinema and the Odeon cinema as the mall development proceeded. There are many heritage-listed buildings in Queen Street, including: The present Hungry Jacks fast food restaurant occupies Beak House, a listed building previously owned by
1435-443: The providers of leadlights. The building was predominantly constructed from red Coorparoo and Waterstown bricks (without any alteration of natural colour). The brown and white sandstone facings are used in the entrance and exterior walls were supplied from Pearson's Quarry at Helidon . The exterior decoration used terracotta panelling (also in its natural colour) supplied by James Campbell & Sons of Albion. Ribbed galvanised iron
1476-578: The south is Elizabeth Street , while Adelaide Street is the next parallel street to the north. Before 1842 and free settlement, Queen Street was originally a track leading from the main section of the early Moreton Bay Penal Colony, crossing a stream known as Wheat Creek with a deviation going up to the Windmill . In early 1840, a surveyor named Dixon drew up a survey for the central Brisbane streets with all streets 66 feet (20 metres) wide. Changes were then made to this plan with square blocks flattened into
1517-417: The staircase were cream with white plaster decorations. The roof contains an attic, used for the storage of paperwork . There is a clock tower, which was very visible throughout the district and affords fine view of the district. The tower is accessed by a series of wooden ladders. The clock in the tower was the first electrically-driven clock in Australia and was installed in 1904 by Alfred George Jackson of
1558-407: The storage of plans. There was also a handsomely-fitted lavatory. The upper floor is dominated by the council chamber with two other areas to either side. The council chamber is 46 by 29 feet (14.0 by 8.8 m) and was decorated with ornate plasterwork and pilasters (half-columns); it was lit by transom windows and gas lighting . For its principal use (council meetings), the room was divided by
1599-450: The sun. Later, there was compromise with the main street that would be known as Queen Street, with the western boundary's width changed to 1.2 chains (24 metres). The first sitting of Legislative Assembly of Queensland in May 1860 occurred in the old converted convict barracks on Queen Street. In 1864, there were two significant fires along the street. The September 1864 fire started in
1640-570: Was not paved or sealed although stormwater drainage was well maintained. Queen Street is historically significant as it contains MacArthur Central , the building in which the American General Douglas MacArthur had his South West Pacific headquarters (from July 1942 to November 1944) during World War II and directed the Allied Forces campaign. The former AMP building was later renamed MacArthur Central as
1681-406: Was used for the roof. The basic architectural style of the building is Italianate Classic Revival . The building consists two main storeys together with an entranceway from the road, a basement, an attic and a clock tower. Being 12 feet (3.7 m) above the main road Vulture Street , the entrance from the street is through a brick and stone arched entrance gate, followed by concrete steps up to