Ithaca Town Council Chambers

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. Named after the birthplace of Lady Roma Diamantina Bowen - the Greek wife of Brisbane’s first governor, in the late 19th century Ithaca was a small town and didn’t become a shire until 1903, after which this, its town hall was built in 1910.

Ithaca was absorbed into the Greater Brisbane Council in 1925 and in 1947 the building became the Ithaca District Library. By 1954 a Western extension was being used for kindergarten rooms and today that section is still a kindergarten while the old hall which was the library is rented out to community groups.

An old tram shelter that still stands adjacent on Enoggera Terrace has been absorbed into the kindy with half of its roof and support posts protruding over the fence into the street.