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The owner, Dr Price, designed Geeumbi himself having been an architecture student for two years in Brisbane before leaving Australia to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh. [1] Dr Thomas Arthur Price, as a young man Dr Price, as an older man. Dr Thomas Price arrived in Toowoomba in 1903 to take up a position at the Willowburn Mental ...
Boyce Gardens comprises a number of major component parts. These include, the rainforest, located in the north-eastern corner of the site, the pine forest along Mackenzie Street on the eastern side of the property, the avocado orchard, displays of Australian flowering shrubs, tennis court, swimming pool, specialist garden areas including collections of ericas, proteas, roses, native orchids ...
A swimming pool was built at Glen Alpine in 1931, designed by William Hodgen Jnr. It was one of the first domestic swimming pools built in Toowoomba. [1] Glen Alpine was temporarily occupied by the Australian Army, c. 1940 –42 during World War II. [1] Macrossan died in 1955 and his daughter purchased Glen Alpine from his estate in 1957. [1]
The size of the house meant the use of the back of house for three bedrooms for the owner/manager and family, with family room, study, rear garden and swimming pool for private use. [1] In 1990 two law firms who combined to become one of the largest in Toowoomba purchased Kensington.
Elphin residence on Anzac Avenue, Toowoomba, 1924. Elphin is a large low-set single-storey weatherboard home, set well back from the road and located on a large block on Anzac Avenue, Newtown, Toowoomba. [1] Elphin is L-shaped in plan and asymmetrical on all elevations.
Site map, 2019. Harris House is a substantial, single storey villa residence in a Federation-era style. It occupies a prominent 0.19 hectares (0.47 acres) site on the corner of Margaret and Clifford streets, located within a mixed residential and commercial area on the western side of the Toowoomba central business district.
With the new year coming up, you're probably thinking about how to live your longest, healthiest life. Of course, eating well and working out regularly help—but new research has shown exactly ...
Toowoomba is home to four parkrun events: Toowoomba (founded 2013 at Queens Park), [75] Highfields (founded 2015), [76] South Toowoomba (founded 2018) [77] and Picnic Point (founded 2023). [78] Toowoomba's parkrun events are some of the best attended in Australia with as many as 500 participants.