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Oak Lodge and Spreydon is a heritage-listed pair of villas at 7 Warra Street & 30 Rome Street, Newtown, Toowoomba, Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia.They were designed by architectural firm James Marks and Son and was built from 1890s to c. 1923.
381–391 Ruthven Street, Toowoomba City: Pigott's Building [50] 386–388 Ruthven Street, Toowoomba City: Karingal Chambers [51] 451–455 Ruthven Street, Toowoomba City: Alexandra Building [52] 456 Ruthven Street, Toowoomba City: White Horse Hotel [53] 541 Ruthven Street, Toowoomba City: Toowoomba City Hall [54] [39]
In 1868, he sold the block to pastoralist and parliamentarian James Taylor, who was a major Toowoomba land speculator and advocate. Following Taylor's demise in 1892, approximately 17.5 acres (7.1 ha) of this land, bounded by Clifford, Margaret, West, and Hill Streets, was subdivided into 64 allotments each of 40 perches (1,000 m 2) in 1899 ...
Middle Ridge is located 6 kilometres (4 mi) from the Toowoomba city centre. The Great Dividing Range passes through Middle Ridge from the north-west to the south-east. The area west of the range is on the Darling Downs at 660 to 670 metres (2,170 to 2,200 ft) above sea level and is a residential area.
Usage note: In Australia, "suburbs" are the official postal subdivisions of a city.Inner suburbs are subdivisions within the denser urban areas of the cities and outer suburbs are the postal divisions found in the outer rings of the metropolitan areas, and usually lying within the boundaries of a separate municipality.
Redwood is located 5 kilometres (3 mi) east of the Toowoomba city centre.Half of the suburb's area consists of the 2,243-hectare (5,540-acre) bushland Redwood Park, [3] after which the suburb was named in 1981; [2] the rest, to the south of the highway, is mostly crown land.
The second Mrs Beit moved to a large house that she had built in Toowoomba and which she named Westbrook Hall after the station. [1] Although Westbrook, like many early runs, had originally covered a huge area, land had been resumed in 1855, some of which became part of Drayton. After Queensland became a self-governing colony in 1859, frequent ...
Weetwood, a residence at 427 Tor Street, Toowoomba, is a ornate brick house built in 1888 for Richard William Scholefield. [1]The allotments on which this residence is situated were originally a part of the land purchased in 1862 as Portion 176, parish Drayton, County of Aubigny (160 acres), by James Taylor, politician and Mayor of Toowoomba in 1890; Thomas George Robinson, stock and land ...