The facade of the RS Exton and Co premises at 333 Ann Street.
Brisbane’s Shrine of Remembrance, dedicated on Armistice Day in 1930.
The Story Bridge, spanning Brisbane River, was built between 1935 and 1940.
The Masonic temple at Barcaldine was constructed in 1901.
My heritage place
In the late 1990s, land subdivision at Yeronga changed the surroundings of heritage-listed Rhyndarra, a two-storey mansion that had variously served as a grand house.
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Qld Heritage Council is coming to town
The Queensland Heritage Council (QHC) is on its way to visit the town that saved Queensland!
QHC Chair David Eades said Gympie had a rich store of heritage places which would provide the perfect backdrop for the QHC – the state’s independent peak body on heritage matters and advisor to the Queensland government – to hold its regional council meeting on Friday 9 October.
“It’s well known that the Gympie community values its heritage and we’re looking forward to meeting interested community members while we’re in town,” Mr Eades said.
“We’re also pleased to be meeting with Gympie Regional councilors, members of historical groups and some of the owners and custodians of places of possible heritage importance.”
Mr Eades said members of the Department of Environment and Resource Management (DERM) Statewide Heritage Survey team had identified places of possible heritage significance during their visits to Gympie earlier this year.
“The Statewide Heritage Survey is an important state government initiative – it shows that the government is serious about protecting Queensland’s diverse and valuable heritage,” he said.
“Since the project began in 2006, DERM heritage officers have been across the state talking to local governments and communities to find places that are of heritage importance.
“They’re continuing to survey the Wide Bay Burnett region which will take in the Fraser Coast region early next year.”
Mr Eades said the QHC was meeting at the Australian Institute of Country Music (AICM) headquarters in the former Lands Office in Channon Street on Friday afternoon.
“The Gympie Regional Council and the AICM are to be congratulated for their excellent work in restoring this wonderful building,” he said.
“It’s now a much loved place and the AICM are great custodians. It’s important that heritage buildings be used and this is a great example of a heritage building adapting to changing times and circumstances and remaining relevant in the contemporary world.”
AICM Education Director, Dr Geoff Walden said the restoration project had brought a new life to the old building which was now home to a recording studio and various music classrooms.
“I am still thrilled to see the effect it has on the people who visit our building,” Dr Walden said.
“They are so impressed that we have access to such a magnificent building and I’m sure the surroundings help our students to create better music!
“By allowing AICM to use this building as its headquarters, Gympie Regional Council has opened the place up to a wide range of community members who come here to play music or just to play – in the case of our preschool music and movement group.”
During their overnight-visit, QHC members and DERM officers will be touring some of Gympie’s key heritage sites by bus, foot and steam train.
Date: 8 October 2009