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269–291 Ruthven Street, Toowoomba City: Defiance Flour Mill [49] 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]
Queens Park is a heritage-listed botanic garden at 43–79 Lindsay Street, East Toowoomba, Toowoomba, Queensland, Toowoomba Region, Australia. It was built from 1875 to 1970s. It also contains the Toowoomba Botanic Gardens. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 27 April 2001. [1]
The new homestead was built to the south of the previous one, which was well located in an elevated position overlooking Westbrook Creek and by then had a small "village" of working buildings and accommodation around it. It was constructed of bluestone quarried on Westbrook land at a location near Toowoomba. The roof was of imported English ...
In 2020 Redwood Park was nominated for Heritage Listing by Scot McPhie. [4] The Toowoomba Regional Council opposed the listing. [5] In March 2021 the Queensland Government announced all of Redwood Park would not be heritage listed, but Eagles Nest Camp, a depression era itinerant workers camp located within Redwood, would be Heritage listed [6]
Toowoomba was home to the Weis Bar, famous for being the birthplace of the Weis brand, until 2021 when the parent company Unilever relocated production to a factory in Western Sydney and the bar was closed down. [59] Toowoomba is also credited as the origin of Home Ice Cream, [60] Homestyle Bake, and possibly the Lamington. [61]
Spring Bluff Railway Station - postcard dated 23 December 1907. The area is named after a railway station in the area. The Spring Bluff railway station located on the boundary with Lockyer Valley Region local government area, was built in the 1860s to allow trains a place to stop during the steep climb from Brisbane to nearby Toowoomba.
The Downs Co-Operative Dairy Association Ltd Factory is a complex of brick, concrete and metal buildings and other structures dating from 1929 through to the 1990s, located on a long, narrow, 1.4 hectare site squeezed between the western rail line and Brook Street, Toowoomba.
On 29 October 1904, Toowoomba was proclaimed the City of Toowoomba. [4] [5] Toowoomba absorbed parts of the Shire of Middle Ridge and Town of Newtown on 23 February 1917. [6] [7] On 19 March 1949, following a major reorganisation of local government in South East Queensland, [8] Toowoomba grew its area to include parts of the Shires of ...