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A low-set Queenslander c. 1935. With timber plentiful and the preferred building material in Queensland after 1900, a new product emerged to fill the need for housing stock – “Ready to Erect” homes provided by timber merchants with all of the pieces already pre-cut and readily available for ordering.
Home in the Queenslander style. Australian residential architectural styles have evolved significantly over time, from the early days of structures made from relatively cheap and imported corrugated iron (which can still be seen in the roofing of historic homes) to more sophisticated styles borrowed from other countries, such as the California bungalow from the United States, the Georgian ...
Lake View House at Chiltern, Victoria, the home of Henry Handel Richardson from July 1876 for 1½ years. Richardson's early years at Chiltern featured in the novel The Fortunes of Richard Mahony. The house was accepted by the National Trust of Australia in 1967.(ABC News story) Barwon Grange, Geelong
The place demonstrates rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of Queensland's cultural heritage. Whepstead, erected in 1889, is important in illustrating the pattern of Queensland's history, being a rare surviving example of 1880s boom era architecture in the Redlands district, and a conscious expression of the confidence and pride in ...
Ascot is characterised by large Queenslander homes and is located approximately 6.5 kilometres (4.0 mi) north-east of Brisbane GPO. [4] Ascot is best known for its beautiful old homes, the picturesque poinciana tree lined shopping area of Racecourse Road), and for the Eagle Farm) and Doomben) racecourses popular
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Gracemere Homestead is located approximately 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) south-west of the Rockhampton city centre along the Capricorn Highway.It is situated on a peninsula jutting into Gracemere Lagoon, which occupies old watercourse country that takes the overflow of nearby Scrubby Creek, and whose eastern bank forms the western boundary to the Gracemere allotment.
The verandah displays a deep timber frieze, a hallmark of the Queensland style. In Brisbane, Queensland, apart from government buildings, stone and attached buildings were deprecated, and in fact legislated against by the Undue Subdivision of Land Prevention Act 1885. Enacted as a public health and anti-slum measure, it set a minimum frontage ...