Addresses
Type of place
Shop/s
Period
Interwar 1919-1939
Style
Art Deco
Shops
This is an image of the local heritage place known as Shops
Shops
Addresses
Type of place
Shop/s
Period
Interwar 1919-1939
Style
Art Deco
This building was probably built in the late 1930s when the property was owned by Vera Strachan Wilkinson. Brisbane City Council transferred the property to her in 1927, retaining a section for road works. Though the site was vacant in 1937, a branch of L.A. Wilkinson (Northern) Pty Ltd, dispensing chemists, was operating on Barker Street, close to Brunswick Street between the 1920s and late 1930s. At this stage Vera Strachan (nee Wilkinson) and her husband, Reginald Arthur King, were living at ‘Elderlie Station’, Winton where he was a station manager, before returning to live in Clayfield by the early 1940s.The single-storey, brick building has a stepped awning and features a parapet with Art Deco influences. The curved and articulated parapet features engaged piers, rendered cornices and interlocking, horizontal banding.
Lot plan
L2_RP44001; L1_RP44001
Key dates
Local Heritage Place Since —
Date of Information —
Construction
Walls: MasonryInteractive mapping
Lot plan
L2_RP44001; L1_RP44001
Key dates
Local Heritage Place Since —
Date of Information —
Construction
Walls: MasonryInteractive mapping
References
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Brisbane City Council Properties on the Web
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Brisbane City Council, 1946 aerial photographs.
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Brisbane City Council, Surveyor’s Notebook, 1912, resurveyed on 8 May 1916, updated 5 Aug 1937
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Brisbane City Council, Sewerage Maps, Detail Plan No 161, 5 Aug 1937
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Brisbane City Council Building Card, 1964
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Brisbane City Council plan of house drainage, 17 April 1973
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Queensland Electoral Rolls, Divison of Kennedy, Subdivision of Winton 1937 [Reginald Arthur and Vera Strachan King living at Elderlie Station Winton]
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Brisbane City Council, New Farm and Teneriffe Hill Heritage and Character Study, Oct 1995, 86
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Certificates of Title, Department of Environment and Resource Management
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Queensland Post Office Directories, 1939-1940. [685 Brunswick St, cnr Barker and Brunswick Sts – New Farm Service Station]. 1935-1939 Barker St, cnr Barker and Brunswick Sts – LA Wilkinson (Northern) Pty Ltd, chemists]
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Courier Mail, 26 Aug 1937, pg 1 [advert for LA Wilkinson (Northern) Pty Ltd dispensing chemists
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Courier Mail, 26 July 1939, pg 10 [new shop available. Apply Wilkinson, cnr Barker & Brunswick Sts]
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Courier Mail, 11 Oct 1949, pg 5
prepared by — Brisbane City Council (page revised March 2023)