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Gothic St Stephen’s Cathedral, like cathedrals world wide, was completed after more than a century had passed between the foundation stone being laid in 1860
This little green square at the edge of Ashgrove shopping centre is awash with memorials pertinent to the history of the area.
When Brisbane’s premier iconic bridge opened in 1940 (attended by 37000 people) after five years of construction it was the seventh largest of its type in the world.
The fine Georgian building housing the arcade was built in 1926 to house the Tattersall’s (Horse Racing) Club
This fine featured building, fronting onto both Chinatown Mall and Brunswick St Mall, was designed by RS Dods in 1902 for Irish retailer Thomas Charles Beirne
This tucked away hilltop rendered brick homestead was designed by Melbourne architect William Ellerker and built in 1865.
This decorative and stately row of six attached town houses was the unusual ‘baby’ of a trio of parliamentarians
Having built his house Montpelier on a hill he named after himself -‘O’Reilly’s Hill’ (later Bowen Hills) - moved across the river
As the burial site of inner city Paddington Cemetery became overcrowded and neglected, calls for a new cemetery were put out by concerned residents.
The former Toowong Library was designed by high profile City Council Chief architect James Birrell (of Centenary Pool fame) and constructed in 1961
As the first highrise residential block of flats in Brisbane, twenty storey Torbreck caused quite a stir in sleepy Brisbane during its marketing and building
From 1925 to 1955 trams ran along Cavendish Rd and this red post signifying Stop 26
This double track stretch of rails are the last remaining tram tracks of Brisbane’s Tramways system.
A quaint pocket park from which there are scenic views of Paddington west to the Border Ranges, Trammies Corner is so named as a tribute to tram drivers.
One of Brisbane’s foremost landmark buildings, the Treasury was built in three stages between 1886 and 1928
This 1920’s built picture theatre is one of a few remaining intact interwar cinemas left in Queensland

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