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This Mediterranean style block of shops and flats was built circa 1940 for the owner, J.J. Hutchinson of South Brisbane. In the 1940s, it was the site of Hutchinsons’ boot and shoe manufacturing business.

The shops are built on land along the main thoroughfare through Red Hill, Musgrave Road, between Federal Street (formerly Newman Street) to the east and Confederate Street to the west. The building is not the first to be constructed on the site. An 1888 estate map for Lilley’s Hill Estate shows “Wishart’s Store” in the same position. Development along Musgrave Road occurred relatively early in Brisbane’s settlement as the Enoggera Reservoir constructed in 1866 was accessed via Musgrave and Waterworks Roads. Musgrave Road was referred to as part of Petrie Terrace in the 1860s and as Waterworks Road until circa 1890.

The site was part of portion 596 granted to Isaac Markwell in 1865. Markwell almost immediately subdivided his land into the allotments which have survived until the present. Two of the three subdivisions which make up the present property of 109 Musgrave Road were purchased in 1875 by Robert Wishart. He mortgaged the property on purchase and again in 1890 and 1891. Presumably he constructed a store on the site from which he operated his drapery business from the late 1870s until the late 1890s. Wishart sold the property in 1898 and it had several owners before being purchased by Robert Frederick Harvey in 1928.

The third allotment, on the corner of Musgrave Road and Confederate Street was purchased by George Winstone in 1867 and remained in the Winstone family until 1884.

In 1892, the property was transferred to the Trustees of St. Bridget’s Branch No. 189 Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society. Postal records reveal that the Celtic Lodge of Ithaca operated from this section of Musgrave Road for several years from around 1900 to 1906-07. Perhaps the Hibernian society built a hall on the property as postal records from 1915 to the late 1920s record a “Picture Palace” on the site. This was named the “Apex Picture Palace” in the mid-1920s.

Robert Frederick Harvey, a “civil servant” purchased the corner site in 1927. In the following year, Harvey leased all three allotments to the Queensland Fibrous Plaster Company for 5 years. An article on the progress of Red Hill published in the Brisbane Courier in 1930 noted that the “Queensland Fibrous Plaster Company Ltd. has its factory at the Federal Street section” of Musgrave Road. A 1937 BCC sewerage detail plan shows the site partially occupied by a large building, presumably the plaster factory. Further research may reveal whether this is the same building as that was used as a picture theatre in the 1920s.

In April 1940, Harvey sold all three allotments to John Hutchinson, John Hutchinson Jnr., and Eric Hutchinson. An application to construct a “shop and flats” was submitted to the Brisbane City Council by J.J. Hutchinson of South Brisbane in June of 1940. The cost of the work was estimated to be £6,500. The application gives no architect’s name for the builder and the contractor is given as “selves”. Hutchinsons continued to run their boot factory from the site during at least the 1940s.

Large, masonry, blocks of flats over ground floor shops, built prior to 1946, such as this one are relatively uncommon in Brisbane. “Carmel Court” at 768 Brunswick Street (Cnr. Browne St.), New Farm, is a three storey block of flats of a similar 1930s Mediterranean style, but did not originally have shops on the ground floor, and is smaller (only two storeys, with a small frontage to Brunswick St.). The three storey 1930s block of flats at 548 Brunswick St. (Cnr. Harcourt St.), New Farm has shops on its ground floor but is in a Tudor, half-timbered style rather than Mediterranean. “Colwill Place” at 180 Albion Road (Cnr. Lutwyche Road), Windsor, is another example of a pre-1946 Mediterranean style building with offices or flats over shops but is a two rather than three storey building, as is the building at 888 Brunswick Street (Cnr. Merthyr Rd.), New Farm. Council’s Heritage Unit is not aware of any other comparable Brisbane buildings.

Today, the building continues its use as flats above ground floor shops. Current occupants of the shops include a restaurant, chiropractor, violin shop, and hairdresser.

Source: Brisbane City Council Heritage Register.

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Terrace Shops:

Historical research and architectural assessment indicates that this 2 storey, masonry row of terrace shops was constructed circa the 1890s. The shops have had a variety of tenants over the past century.

The shops are built on land along the main thoroughfare through Red Hill, Musgrave Road, between Federal Street (formerly Newman Street) to the east and Confederate Street to the west. Development along Musgrave Road occurred relatively early in Brisbane’s European settlement as the Enoggera Reservoir constructed in 1866 was accessed via Musgrave and Waterworks Roads. Musgrave Road was referred to as part of Petrie Terrace in the 1860s and as Waterworks Road until circa 1890. Horse drawn omnibuses provided transport to Red Hill from the 1880s. They were replaced by the electric tram along Musgrave Road in 1897, one of the earliest tramlines in Brisbane. A 1930 article in the Brisbane Courier recalls the changes over time to this important route since the 1870s:

A few other good sites on the town side of Red Hill were taken up, for Brisbane was beginning to develop as the result of an influx of immigrants by the British-India boats and houses were spreading to adjacent hills. Just over Red Hill the nucleus of a township soon was being formed……Musgrave-road [sic] today is very different from the place of the late ‘70s. The rough bush road is a well-made street, leading to at least three important suburbs. Houses and shops line the thoroughfare on either side and on the crest of the hill stands the large brick Church of St. Brigid.

The corner of Federal Street (formerly named Newman Street) and Musgrave Road was part of portions 595 and 596 granted to Isaac Markwell in 1865. Markwell almost immediately subdivided his land into the allotments which have survived until the present. The adjacent land on the corner of Confederate Street and Musgrave Road was purchased by Robert Wishart in 1875. Wishart established a drapery store on this corner which operated from the late 1870s to the late 1890s. In 1885, Wishart also purchased the subject site. In 1890 and 1891, Wishart mortgaged both sites. Perhaps this financed the construction of the present, masonry terrace building as the first record of a presence on the site in postal records occurs in the 1891 directory. This indicates that the Ithaca Shire Council Offices were at this address from at least 1891. Alternatively, an earlier building may have existed on the site before the masonry terrace was built.

The next names to appear in postal records for this section of the block are Alexander Wishart, photographer, in 1893 and Mrs Quine, fruiterer and William Quine, drayman, in 1895-96. It seems likely that the terrace building had been constructed by this time.

In 1898, Wishart sold his holdings in Musgrave Road toRobert Muter Stewart. After Stewart’s death in 1908, the subject site had several owners. Tenants during the early 1900s included John Lloyd: bootmaker; William Wright, fruiterer; William King, bootmaker; William McKenniarey, furniture dealer and Mrs Davis, newsagent.

On inspection, it appears that alterations were made to the shopfronts during the interwar period.

From the late 1910s to the 1930s, a “Japanese laundry” operated from the building. McKenniarey’s furniture shop continued to operate from this address until at least the 1940s, and a second hand furniture shop still occupies one of the shops in the building today.

Musgrave Road Shops & Flats:

This Mediterranean style block of shops and flats was built circa 1940 for the owner, J.J. Hutchinson of South Brisbane. In the 1940s, it was the site of Hutchinsons’ boot and shoe manufacturing business.

The shops are built on land along the main thoroughfare through Red Hill, Musgrave Road, between Federal Street (formerly Newman Street) to the east and Confederate Street to the west. The building is not the first to be constructed on the site. An 1888 estate map for Lilley’s Hill Estate shows “Wishart’s Store” in the same position. Development along Musgrave Road occurred relatively early in Brisbane’s settlement as the Enoggera Reservoir constructed in 1866 was accessed via Musgrave and Waterworks Roads. Musgrave Road was referred to as part of Petrie Terrace in the 1860s and as Waterworks Road until circa 1890.

The site was part of portion 596 granted to Isaac Markwell in 1865. Markwell almost immediately subdivided his land into the allotments which have survived until the present. Two of the three subdivisions which make up the present property of 109 Musgrave Road were purchased in 1875 by Robert Wishart. He mortgaged the property on purchase and again in 1890 and 1891. Presumably he constructed a store on the site from which he operated his drapery business from the late 1870s until the late 1890s. Wishart sold the property in 1898 and it had several owners before being purchased by Robert Frederick Harvey in 1928.

The third allotment, on the corner of Musgrave Road and Confederate Street was purchased by George Winstone in 1867 and remained in the Winstone family until 1884.

In 1892, the property was transferred to the Trustees of St. Bridget’s Branch No. 189 Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society. Postal records reveal that the Celtic Lodge of Ithaca operated from this section of Musgrave Road for several years from around 1900 to 1906-07. Perhaps the Hibernian society built a hall on the property as postal records from 1915 to the late 1920s record a “Picture Palace” on the site. This was named the “Apex Picture Palace” in the mid-1920s.

Robert Frederick Harvey, a “civil servant” purchased the corner site in 1927. In the following year, Harvey leased all three allotments to the Queensland Fibrous Plaster Company for 5 years. An article on the progress of Red Hill published in the Brisbane Courier in 1930 noted that the “Queensland Fibrous Plaster Company Ltd. has its factory at the Federal Street section” of Musgrave Road. A 1937 BCC sewerage detail plan shows the site partially occupied by a large building, presumably the plaster factory. Further research may reveal whether this is the same building as that was used as a picture theatre in the 1920s.

In April 1940, Harvey sold all three allotments to John Hutchinson, John Hutchinson Jnr., and Eric Hutchinson. An application to construct a “shop and flats” was submitted to the Brisbane City Council by J.J. Hutchinson of South Brisbane in June of 1940. The cost of the work was estimated to be £6,500. The application gives no architect’s name for the builder and the contractor is given as “selves”. Hutchinsons continued to run their boot factory from the site during at least the 1940s.

Large, masonry, blocks of flats over ground floor shops, built prior to 1946, such as this one are relatively uncommon in Brisbane. “Carmel Court” at 768 Brunswick Street (Cnr. Browne St.), New Farm, is a three storey block of flats of a similar 1930s Mediterranean style, but did not originally have shops on the ground floor, and is smaller (only two storeys, with a small frontage to Brunswick St.). The three storey 1930s block of flats at 548 Brunswick St. (Cnr. Harcourt St.), New Farm has shops on its ground floor but is in a Tudor, half-timbered style rather than Mediterranean. “Colwill Place” at 180 Albion Road (Cnr. Lutwyche Road), Windsor, is another example of a pre-1946 Mediterranean style building with offices or flats over shops but is a two rather than three storey building, as is the building at 888 Brunswick Street (Cnr. Merthyr Rd.), New Farm. Council’s Heritage Unit is not aware of any other comparable Brisbane buildings.

Today, the building continues its use as flats above ground floor shops. Current occupants of the shops include a restaurant, chiropractor, violin shop, and hairdresser.

Source: Brisbane City Council Heritage Register.

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Historical research and architectural assessment indicates that this 2 storey, masonry row of terrace shops was constructed circa the 1890s. The shops have had a variety of tenants over the past century.

The shops are built on land along the main thoroughfare through Red Hill, Musgrave Road, between Federal Street (formerly Newman Street) to the east and Confederate Street to the west. Development along Musgrave Road occurred relatively early in Brisbane’s European settlement as the Enoggera Reservoir constructed in 1866 was accessed via Musgrave and Waterworks Roads. Musgrave Road was referred to as part of Petrie Terrace in the 1860s and as Waterworks Road until circa 1890. Horse drawn omnibuses provided transport to Red Hill from the 1880s. They were replaced by the electric tram along Musgrave Road in 1897, one of the earliest tramlines in Brisbane. A 1930 article in the Brisbane Courier recalls the changes over time to this important route since the 1870s:

A few other good sites on the town side of Red Hill were taken up, for Brisbane was beginning to develop as the result of an influx of immigrants by the British-India boats and houses were spreading to adjacent hills. Just over Red Hill the nucleus of a township soon was being formed……Musgrave-road [sic] today is very different from the place of the late ‘70s. The rough bush road is a well-made street, leading to at least three important suburbs. Houses and shops line the thoroughfare on either side and on the crest of the hill stands the large brick Church of St. Brigid.

The corner of Federal Street (formerly named Newman Street) and Musgrave Road was part of portions 595 and 596 granted to Isaac Markwell in 1865. Markwell almost immediately subdivided his land into the allotments which have survived until the present. The adjacent land on the corner of Confederate Street and Musgrave Road was purchased by Robert Wishart in 1875. Wishart established a drapery store on this corner which operated from the late 1870s to the late 1890s. In 1885, Wishart also purchased the subject site. In 1890 and 1891, Wishart mortgaged both sites. Perhaps this financed the construction of the present, masonry terrace building as the first record of a presence on the site in postal records occurs in the 1891 directory. This indicates that the Ithaca Shire Council Offices were at this address from at least 1891. Alternatively, an earlier building may have existed on the site before the masonry terrace was built.

The next names to appear in postal records for this section of the block are Alexander Wishart, photographer, in 1893 and Mrs Quine, fruiterer and William Quine, drayman, in 1895-96. It seems likely that the terrace building had been constructed by this time.

In 1898, Wishart sold his holdings in Musgrave Road toRobert Muter Stewart. After Stewart’s death in 1908, the subject site had several owners. Tenants during the early 1900s included John Lloyd: bootmaker; William Wright, fruiterer; William King, bootmaker; William McKenniarey, furniture dealer and Mrs Davis, newsagent.

On inspection, it appears that alterations were made to the shopfronts during the interwar period.

From the late 1910s to the 1930s, a “Japanese laundry” operated from the building. McKenniarey’s furniture shop continued to operate from this address until at least the 1940s, and a second hand furniture shop still occupies one of the shops in the building today.

Source: Brisbane City Council Heritage Register.

Tags:   shop shops shopping store stores retail outlet department terrace terraces building architecture architect vintage antique old style stylish colony colonial europe european culture cultural history historic heritage red hill brisbane queensland australia

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Historical research and architectural assessment indicates that this 2 storey, masonry row of terrace shops was constructed circa the 1890s. The shops have had a variety of tenants over the past century.

The shops are built on land along the main thoroughfare through Red Hill, Musgrave Road, between Federal Street (formerly Newman Street) to the east and Confederate Street to the west. Development along Musgrave Road occurred relatively early in Brisbane’s European settlement as the Enoggera Reservoir constructed in 1866 was accessed via Musgrave and Waterworks Roads. Musgrave Road was referred to as part of Petrie Terrace in the 1860s and as Waterworks Road until circa 1890. Horse drawn omnibuses provided transport to Red Hill from the 1880s. They were replaced by the electric tram along Musgrave Road in 1897, one of the earliest tramlines in Brisbane. A 1930 article in the Brisbane Courier recalls the changes over time to this important route since the 1870s:

A few other good sites on the town side of Red Hill were taken up, for Brisbane was beginning to develop as the result of an influx of immigrants by the British-India boats and houses were spreading to adjacent hills. Just over Red Hill the nucleus of a township soon was being formed……Musgrave-road [sic] today is very different from the place of the late ‘70s. The rough bush road is a well-made street, leading to at least three important suburbs. Houses and shops line the thoroughfare on either side and on the crest of the hill stands the large brick Church of St. Brigid.

The corner of Federal Street (formerly named Newman Street) and Musgrave Road was part of portions 595 and 596 granted to Isaac Markwell in 1865. Markwell almost immediately subdivided his land into the allotments which have survived until the present. The adjacent land on the corner of Confederate Street and Musgrave Road was purchased by Robert Wishart in 1875. Wishart established a drapery store on this corner which operated from the late 1870s to the late 1890s. In 1885, Wishart also purchased the subject site. In 1890 and 1891, Wishart mortgaged both sites. Perhaps this financed the construction of the present, masonry terrace building as the first record of a presence on the site in postal records occurs in the 1891 directory. This indicates that the Ithaca Shire Council Offices were at this address from at least 1891. Alternatively, an earlier building may have existed on the site before the masonry terrace was built.

The next names to appear in postal records for this section of the block are Alexander Wishart, photographer, in 1893 and Mrs Quine, fruiterer and William Quine, drayman, in 1895-96. It seems likely that the terrace building had been constructed by this time.

In 1898, Wishart sold his holdings in Musgrave Road toRobert Muter Stewart. After Stewart’s death in 1908, the subject site had several owners. Tenants during the early 1900s included John Lloyd: bootmaker; William Wright, fruiterer; William King, bootmaker; William McKenniarey, furniture dealer and Mrs Davis, newsagent.

On inspection, it appears that alterations were made to the shopfronts during the interwar period.

From the late 1910s to the 1930s, a “Japanese laundry” operated from the building. McKenniarey’s furniture shop continued to operate from this address until at least the 1940s, and a second hand furniture shop still occupies one of the shops in the building today.

Source: Brisbane City Council Heritage Register.

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