5 Dublin Street, Yeronga

Representative of gracious homes of prosperous families of the era. The early owner of this property and house at rear was Patrick Walsh Crowe, who possibly built these houses on sizeable blocks of several allotments. Crow called a tender for the erection of a house at Yeronga on 15 June 1889. Fr Peter Capra bought both properties in October 1889. It was his association with the area that possibly gave rise to rumours that either this house or Knowle opposite was used as a monastery. No evidence for this claim. Ava and Richard Cole were tenants from 1904 to 1919 when the Bonfields bought the property. The Bonfields lived in the house for many decades. Michael Bonfield was a public servant while his wife Hannah took care of their five children. During this time the property included a tennis court and an elegant rose gardens. Stables were also part of the property, at rear near railway station. The land was broken up in the Interwar period. The old rose garden is now 9 Dublin St and the tennis court became 1 Dublin St.1

Stylish late Colonial house with a faceted bay window and built by the 1890s. The house displays french doors and sash windows and has a curved valance beneath the verandah roof and quatrefoil panels between the triple verandah posts. The bay projection and verandah balustrades of double rail and dowel are typical of the era.