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When first constructed, City Hall incorporated municipal offices and council chambers, rooms for a school of arts, a technical college and public hall. [1] The first settlement in the Toowoomba area was established on the present site of Drayton in 1842, and a mail service commenced in December 1845. A survey of Drayton in 1850, the third to be ...
Permanent, federally funded housing came into being in the United States as a part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Title II, Section 202 of the National Industrial Recovery Act, passed June 16, 1933, directed the Public Works Administration (PWA) to develop a program for the "construction, reconstruction, alteration, or repair under public regulation or control of low-cost housing and slum ...
Public housing high-rise in the Inner-City Sydney Sydney suburb of Waterloo, two of 11 such towers in three different estates spread across the suburbs of Waterloo, Redfern and Surry Hills. Public housing in Australia, also referred to as "housing commission", is managed by the states, with funding provided by both the state and federal ...
Toowoomba State High School is a government secondary (7-12) school for boys and girls at Stuart Street [ 19 ] [ 20 ] In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 832 students with 76 teachers (69 full-time equivalent) and 37 non-teaching staff (29 full-time equivalent). [ 21 ]
[2] [3] Toowoomba was also popular as a summer retreat for the colony's elite. It was declared the City of Toowoomba in 1904. [1] Toowoomba was an early centre for education, with the first National School (later known as Toowoomba South State School) opening in 1865. [3]
Tor is a heritage-listed villa at 396 Tor Street, Newtown, Toowoomba, Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by William Hodgen and built in 1904. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 28 May 1999. [1]
Rockville State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at 3 Holberton Street (10] [11] It includes a special education program. [10] In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 175 students with 16 teachers (13 full-time equivalent) and 14 non-teaching staff (10 full-time equivalent). [12]
The main section of the Toowoomba Court House was erected between 1876 and 1878. At the time of its construction, the Queensland Colonial Architect responsible for the design of public buildings was F D G Stanley. [1] Toowoomba is the principal town on the Darling Downs which was first discovered by explorer Allan Cunningham in 1827. It was ...