This is an image of the local heritage place known as Cast Iron Columns

Cast Iron Columns

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Addresses

At 300 Wickham Street, Fortitude valley, Queensland 4006

Type of place

Shop/s

Period

Interwar 1919-1939

Style

Free Classical

The cast iron columns on Wickham Street are a remnant of the ACB Drapery, once operated in the buildings running from 282 Wickham St to Alden Street. The site was owned by Henry Roberts, a builder, and sold to Albert Charles Byerley, as the Valley’s was experiencing a boom period as a major commercial hub in the early twentieth century. Byerley set up his flagship ACB store in 1916, expanding through the early 1920s, with buildings designed by Henry Roberts. Byerley’s expansion plans for a ten-storey building on Wickham Street never came to fruition, and the ACB Drapery went into liquidation in the 1930s. Although the land was sold and the building altered out of recognition, the columns remain as a demonstration of the Valley’s commercial dominance in the early twentieth century.

Lot plan

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Key dates

Local Heritage Place Since — 30 October 2000

Date of Information — May 2011

Construction

Structure: Cast iron

People/associations

Henry Roberts (Architect)

Interactive mapping

City Plan Interactive Mapping