Burnage

This residence was designed by and built for Richard Gailey junior in 1936, replacing an older house on the site. Son of a prolific and well-known architect of the same name, Gailey was also an architect who was best known for designing the Brisbane Arcade in 1923. His property on Killara Street had once been part of a large estate belonging to William Hemmant, politician and businessman, and later a smaller property. Gailey purchased Morrow’s property in 1930 and set about designing a new family residence. Responding to the trend of dividing large residences into flats, Gailey purposely designed the two floors of the residence to be independent, allowing a clean division of the residence into flats if necessary. The death of Gailey’s wife Edna in 1947 led to the sale of the property, which was subsequently divided as Gailey had intended. This large Federation-style house features a fine timber front stair with lattice work and a widened verandah to one side.