visitor info guide to brisbane

The imposing neo-classical towers of the government offices came to life as part of the government job scheme during the Depression.

This remarkable piece of art deco architecture came to be during the Great Depression when houses everywhere were being divided into flats.

A customs house has inhabited this spot near Petrie’s Bight since 1849, with this grand copper-domed building with its massive colonnade replacing a much smaller one in 1888

One of Queensland’s oldest burial grounds, South Brisbane Cemetery was reserved as a supplement to the overflowing Paddington Cemetery in 1864.

Horseracing in Brisbane had its roots in the early settlement with the first settlers keen followers and punters, with the Queensland Turf Club being established in 1865.

As one of a swag of grand ornate hotels that came to represent the unique Queensland 19th century style, the Empire was constructed in the boom times of the late 1880’s

Dating from 1866, this is significant as the first major (clay core) dam to be built in Queensland and one of the first in Australia.

Tucked away on a quiet riverside street sits this rare gem of a pre-separation house

The heritage-listed iconic house with its composer sculpture garden is now for rent on Air BnB

Originating as Farrington House, this grand hilltop gabled home was built in the 1880’s for its biscuit empire owner Frederick Wilson.

Built in 1888 to a design by architect AB Wilson, Forester’s Hall is a rare surviving intact example of a 19th century community hall

This tiny private burial ground c1863 sits atop a Corinda hill with the district’s best panoramic views.

In the convict days the area down in the vicinity of Alice St was a mangrove swamp known as Frog’s Hollow

The only one of its kind left in Australia today, this cast iron tower was made in England and shipped out in sections to the 1880’s

The history of this site predates the 1872 construction of the Brisbane GPO by John Petrie

Glenlyon still retains some of the air of the grand country estate it was during the 19th century when its marble floors were polished with butter milk