visitor info guide to brisbane

As one of the remaining large Victorian villas that sprang up around Brisbane in the late 1800’s, Glengariff is one of the grandest in scale and most imposing.

Fernberg, which is German for ‘distant mountain’ was aptly named by its first owner and resident in 1864, merchant and later MP Johann Heussler.

The striking gothic arched William St section of this office was designed by colonial architect FDG Stanley and built in 1874 after an earlier wooden printing office had been demolished.

As one of few surviving recreational grounds from the 1880s, this park began and grew with the suburb of Graceville

A rare example of a post war station fitted out between 1952 and 1959 in the new age of Modernist design which was a deliberate move away from the traditional railway station.

Walter Taylor, the builder and architect of the live-in Walter Taylor Bridge, was also responsible for this unique interwar gothic church and its connecting buildings.

The quiet leafy hideaway that is St John’s Wood was once a centre point for Brisbane society and privy to Royal guests including the future King of England George V.

One of Brisbane’s grand and earliest villas built in Indooroopilly, Greylands was constructed in 1876 by prominent lawyer Graham Lloyd Hart.

Ferries have been an important part of Brisbane transport since the 1840s and as there was only one bridge built across the river in almost a century.

A fine example of an early Federation era timber and iron house, Hester Villa was built in 1901 for Captain Robert Pairn.

Businesses and hospitals still use this laundry, not realising that it is a rare surviving example of a 19th century workhouse for the down-and-out that still operates as a charitable institution.

This landmark church with imposing Italianate tower was yet another of Archbishop Duhig’s projects in the years 1927-30.

This ornate little joss house, which was built in 1886 for Brisbane’s burgeoning Cantonese community, is tucked away in the back streets of Breakfast Creek.

Hughesville sits in all its classic beauty overlooking the commercially marked intersection of Padstow and Logan Rds.

One of Brisbane’s earliest shires was the inner western Ithaca, which loosely covers today’s suburbs of Paddington, Red Hill and part of Bardon.

This thoroughfare between Spring Hill and the Brisbane CBD was indeed little more than a ladder in its early days