visitor info guide to brisbane

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

By the early 20th century Yeronga was well established as a desirable place of residence for Brisbane’s growing middle class, including printer John Mills

This snug little time capsule of the 1930s, tucked away in a cul de sac off Moray St, came about as a result of a timber mill fire in 1931

Said to be one of Brisbane’s most architecturally accomplished buildings of its time, Kirkston was built in 1889 by one John Young of Young’s Shop and Residence.

This unusual three storey timber house was designed by TR Hall, one half of the dynamic duo responsible for City Hall, and built at the start of World War I.

The landmark villa Lamb House or ‘Home’ as it has also been known, is some sixty years younger than Kangaroo Pt itself.

Today this majestic monolith houses the beautifully converted Treasury Hotel, but it began life at the start of the 1900s as the Land Administration Building.

As a relic of an early 1860s gentry estate, Lota House is the oldest surviving residence in the Manly and Lota region

This ghostly white tower in the western foothills can be seen for miles around and was built in 1930 as St Jude’s Mission House and Seminary for the training of priests and nuns

This grand structure with its classic temple façade doubles as both a World War I memorial to lost Freemasons and a monument to Freemasonry itself