Addresses

At 35 Villiers Street, New farm, Queensland 4005

Type of place

House

Period

Victorian 1860-1890, Federation 1890-1914

Style

Filigree

Fernside

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Fernside

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Addresses

At 35 Villiers Street, New farm, Queensland 4005

Type of place

House

Period

Victorian 1860-1890, Federation 1890-1914

Style

Filigree

The middle section of ‘Fernside’, may have been built following the purchase of the property by William Villiers Brown in 1865. Villiers Brown, who grew up on the nearby 1850s family property, ‘Kingsholme’, had extensive banking and pastoral interests, and later represented Townsville in the Queensland Government. Villiers, Lechmere and Bailey Streets were named after family members.During the 1880s building boom Villiers Street became a desirable residential address for merchants and public figures with the subdivision of large New Farm estates, such as the Villiers Estate, into sizeable suburban allotments.George Myers, who purchased the masonry residence in 1887, transformed it into a grand home, reflecting his status as a Brisbane merchant and founder of the Brisbane Synagogue. He named the house ‘Glen Erin’, which was renamed ‘Fernside’ after the property was transferred to Ida Maud Levy and Edith Rachael Solomon in 1918.

Also known as

Glen Erin

Lot plan

L2_RP106436

Key dates

Local Heritage Place Since —

Date of Citation —

Construction

Roof: Corrugated iron;
 Walls: Timber

People/associations

William Villiers Brown (Occupant)

Criterion for listing

(A) Historical; (H) Historical association

Interactive mapping

City Plan Interactive Mapping

Also known as

Glen Erin

Lot plan

L2_RP106436

Key dates

Local Heritage Place Since —

Date of Citation —

Construction

Roof: Corrugated iron;
 Walls: Timber

People/associations

William Villiers Brown (Occupant)

Criterion for listing

(A) Historical; (H) Historical association

Interactive mapping

City Plan Interactive Mapping

Statement of significance

Relevant assessment criteria

This is a place of local heritage significance and meets one or more of the local heritage criteria under the Heritage planning scheme policy of the Brisbane City Plan 2014. It is significant because:

Historical

Criterion A

The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of the city's or local area’s history

as a good example of New Farm's affluent, middle-class residential development from the 1860s to 1880s.

Historical association

Criterion H

The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organization of importance in the city’s or local area’s history

as the property of William Villiers Brown from the mid to late 1860s, who later represented Townsville in the Queensland Government and whose family were early landowners in New Farm.

References

  1. Brisbane City Council Properties on the Web

  2. Brisbane City Council, 1946 aerial photographs.

  3. Brisbane City Council, Sewerage Maps, Detail Plan No 188, 9 March 1925

  4. Brisbane City Council, Surveyor’s Notebook, 29 June 1916, updated 6 March 1925

  5. Brisbane City Council, New Farm and Teneriffe Hill Heritage and Character Study, Oct 1995.

  6. Department of Environment and Resource Management, Queensland Certificates of Title.

  7. Queensland Post Office Directory, 1919-20 [property known as ‘Glen Erin’]; 1921-22 [property known as ‘Fernside’.]

  8. Bennett, H, ‘New Farm from quality street to mixed assortment’, Brisbane Houses, Gardens, Suburbs and Congregations, Papers No 22 Brisbane History Group, 2010.

  9. Schiavo, John, New Farm: a study of land use and settlement to 1999, Brisbane City Council, pg 29

  10. Bennett, H, ‘New Farm from quality street to mixed assortment’, Brisbane Houses, Gardens, Suburbs and Congregations, Papers No 22 Brisbane History Group, 2010.

  11. Schiavo, John, New Farm: a study of land use and settlement to 1999, Brisbane City Council, pg 29

  12. Benjamin, G. & Grant, G. Reflections on New Farm, New Farm & Districts Historical Society Inc, New Farm, 2008, pg 152

  13. Ford, J., Historical report on ‘Fernside’, Brisbane City Council Heritage Unit

  14. Apperly, Richard, Robert Irving and Peter Reynolds. A Pictorial Guide to Identifying Australian Architecture: Styles and Terms from 1788 to the Present. North Ryde: Angus & Robertson, 1989

  15. Gray-Woods, Doris, ‘A Brown Study 2’, 15 Oct 2010

  16. Surveyor-General’s Office.  McKellar’s Official Map of Brisbane and Suburbs. Brisbane, 1895

  17. Heritage Unit communication with Jan Jorganson, owner of 35 Villiers St, 2002

  18. Moreton Bay Courier, 7 June 1856, pg 4.

  19. Courier, 15 Feb 1864, pg 1

  20. Brisbane Courier, 27 Jan 1865, pg 4

  21. Brisbane Courier, 22 Aug 1878, pg 4

  22. Brisbane Courier, 17 May 1894, pg 2

  23. Brisbane Courier, 25 Dec 1894, pg 4

  24. Brisbane Courier, 29 April, 1915, pg 6

  25. Brisbane Courier, 30 April 1915, pg 8

  26. Brisbane Courier, 1 May 1915, pg 16.

  27. Brisbane Courier, 22 Feb 1919, pg 8.

Citation prepared by — Brisbane City Council (page revised June 2022)

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Victorian 1860-1890, Federation 1890-1914
Filigree
House
At 35 Villiers Street, New farm, Queensland 4005
At 35 Villiers Street, New farm, Queensland 4005 L2_RP106436
Historical, Historical association