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ROCKHAMPTON’S CBD HERITAGE SELF-GUIDED TOUR Stop, shop and BRIDGE FISHING JETTY FITZROY FITZROY FITZROY RIVER 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 QUAY STREET 2 1 CBD HERITAGE SHOPPING AND DINING PRECINCT EAST STREET THE HIGHLIGHTS 13 DERBY STREET STANLEY STREET STANLEY DENHAM STREET WILLIAM STREET BOLSOVER STREET 14 15 WALK TOUR STREET FITZROY If you only have a short time and would like to capture a snapshot of Rockhampton’s history, visit one of Queensland’s premier heritage streetscapes - Quay Street. Starting at the wharves that WALK CBD HERITAGE were the gateway into Rockhampton, and continuing through most of the early CBD, this tour is approximately 2km one way up Quay, or you can extend your history lesson, complete with 8.EVANS AND HEARN 11. TRUSTEE CHAMBERS 14. SCHOOL OF ARTS shopping and a cuppa, with a return trip down Bolsover and East Streets. 206 Quay Street known historically as the River 230 Bolsover Street The former Archer Chambers Chambers | 170 Quay Street The Rockhampton School of Arts 1. HARBOUR Company. He was also Mayor of 6. HERITAGE HOTEL building at 206 Quay Street was Trustee Chambers built in 1877 building was constructed in 1894 Rockhampton from 1891 until erected in the 1870s for the is significant for its association and is an important element of BOARD BUILDING his death in 1894, aged 57.The 230 Quay Street The Heritage Tavern, formerly the pioneer Archer family. with the life and work of Dr the streetscape of Bolsover Street. 288 Quay Street building was bought by Dr. O’Brien, William Callaghan resident of The building is a fine example of The Rockhampton Harbour Board who extended it and converted it Old Colonial Hotel, and originally the Commercial Hotel and 9.ROYAL BANK OF Rockhampton from 1861 until his late nineteenth century Victorian building was constructed in 1896. into a private hospital in 1908. death in 1912. It was the private Classical architecture. It has formed The Architect was J. W. Wilson and Chambers, was erected in 1898 for Leah Johnson. Designed by QUEENSLAND residence of the Callaghan family a major part of the cultural, social it was designed in the Neo Classic 194 Quay Street from 1877 until 1919. It is also an and civic life of Rockhampton since Revival Style. The Harbour Board 4. GOLDSBOROUGH MORT prominent Rockhampton architect Built in 1889 as the Royal Bank of important example of the work of 1894, and has associations with a was established in 1895 to take John W Wilson, the three-storey, BUILDING / WALTER AND Queensland, this was one of the Rockhampton architect John W. previous School of Arts building over the administration of the concrete-rendered brick building many banks attracted to the city by Wilson , which includes four other that existed on the site from 1865. Rockhampton port which at the ELIZA HALL BUILDING featuring decorative iron-lace the wealth of the Canoona and Mt buildings along Quay Street. Built time was busier than the Brisbane 238 Quay Street verandah balustrading was Morgan gold strikes in the Classic Colonial style. The former School of Arts building port. The board remained in this This late Victorian classical style constructed by J. K. Evans at a cost of £6,500. has been the beneficiary of a building until 1977. single-story cement render and conservation plan prepared in brick building was built for Walter 10. QUEENSLAND NATIONAL 12. CRITERION HOTEL 1994. The School of Arts is a and Eliza Hall in 1899. 2. WALTER REID 7. CUSTOMS HOUSE BANK BUILDING 150 Quay Street continuing link with the social, The Criterion Hotel is a three educational and recreational 260 Quay Street / 203 East Street 208 Quay Street 186 Quay Street storeye masonry building situated aspirations of the people of Walter Reid buildings occupy the 5. MOUNT MORGAN GOLD Rockhampton’s Custom House is The former Queensland National on the corner of Quay and Fitzroy Rockhampton and central block from the corner of Quay an example of the Classic Revival Bank is an imposing two-storeyed MINING COMPANY period architecture which was all Streets. It has formed an integral Queensland. Street and Derby Street to East 236 Quay Street rendered brickwork building and vital part of the social and Street. 260 Quay Street and 203 the rage in Rockhampton around situated on the corner of Quay and A very important building in the turn of the century. Built cultural life of the town and City of East Street. These were originally Rockhampton’s history this was Denham Streets in Rockhampton. Rockhampton since 1891. 15. CITY HALL a warehouse and office of Walter between 1898 and1901 of Stanwell It was erected in 1880 for the built in 1897 in the neo-Classical sandstone the building has a huge 232 Bolsover Street Reid Company Ltd. revival style as the head office of Queensland National Bank for Rockhampton emerged as an copper dome and an elaborate £8000 in 1872 and by 1880, 13. ROCKHAMPTON the Mt Morgan Mining Company. semi-circular portico with a important Queensland regional The rear courtyard had high walls (the year of the construction of POST OFFICE centre during the 1850s and 1860s. 3. AVONLEIGH CHAMBERS Corinthian colonnade. the Rockhampton branch) the 248 Quay Street topped with broken glass and 80 East Street Despite this building expansion bank held 40 per cent of the into the 1900s, Rockhampton never Avonleigh was built as a private was the entry point for trooper- The building is a powerful This grand two-storeyed brick post total deposits and advances in achieved a purpose built Town Hall residence for Mr Frederick Morgan, escorted coaches which delivered reminder of the importance that office with sandstone facing was Queensland. until 1941. one of the Morgan brothers who consignments of gold bars from Rockhampton enjoyed as the erected in 1892 for the Queensland founded Mount Morgan Mining the Mt Morgan smelter. major central coast port around Post and Telegraph Department. that time. THE HISTORY OF was enlarged and renamed as the Breweries in 1961. sold the vehicle to W Howard who Criterion Hotel. The present Criterion converted it into a car powered by Hotel was designed in 1889 by Thomas McLaughlin built the an internal combustion engine. architect J Flint for Mrs Curtis. This present building in 1887 as his ROCKHAMPTON hotel remained in the Curtis/Palmer family residence. The building later family until it was sold to the Smith became the Rockhampton Club and BUSINESS CHAMBERS 178 Quay Street, Rockhampton family in 1946. was exclusively for gentlemen, until In 1853, the Archer Brothers came to the area in search of suitable country in which to run sheep. Built 1886, Neo classic revival style. 1999, when females were allowed The business chambers building They settled at Gracemere some 15km to the west of Rockhampton where descendants still live in The Criterion Hotel is reported membership. The Rockhampton was built in 1886 for the firm Rees the original home. Originally the new settlement was to be named Charlestown, after Charles Archer, to have a ghost, believed to be Club closed its doors in 2002, passing R & Sydney Jones who occupied but he declined the suggestion in favour of Rockhampton. The name Rockhampton was derived a chambermaid who, it is said, into ownership of accountants and it until moving into alternative from a combination of two sources – ‘Rock’ from the rock barrier across the Fitzroy River, which blocks committed suicide in room 22 after financial planners who now occupy premises in 1976. Rees R & Sydney a sad affair of the heart. Guests have the building. navigation near the Neville Hewitt Bridge (the “New Bridge” as its known locally); and ‘Hampton’, the Jones is the oldest legal firm in spoken of a “presence” in that room English word which means ‘small village’. Hence the name Rockhampton, meaning ‘Village by the Rocks.’ Queensland. The founder was Mr from time to time. TRUSTEE CHAMBERS Rees Rutland Jones who graduated In September 1858 gold was discovered at Canoona, approximately 50km north of Rockhampton. 15,000 170 Quay Street, Rockhampton from Sydney University and moved The interior of the building is Built C 1887, Heritage listed, classic Colonial to Rockhampton in 1864 to establish people soon arrived in the area in search of gold. On the 25th October, 1858, Rockhampton was officially preserved in the style in which it was a legal practice. He was closely declared a settlement or town. The town grew rapidly in its early years with increasing prosperity built originally built, having bedrooms style. involved in the civic, political and mainly around the pastoral, cattle and gold mining industries. A port facility was established in the town with shared toilet and bathroom Built in 1887 as the private residence social fabric of the city during his reach of the river to cope with the increasing trade. In the mid 1860s Rockhampton was considered facilities on each landing. A of Dr William Callaghan. Soon after long life. He married a daughter compromise has been made in a few arriving in Rockhampton in 1861 Dr one of Queensland’s major ports and exports from ‘Port Rockhampton’ exceeded those from the Port of of William John Brown who was rooms which now have ensuites. Callaghan was appointed coroner and Brisbane. district medical officer. He was also Rockhampton’s sub-collector of customs and together they raised a During the Second World War, the house surgeon at the Rockhampton large family. Criterion Hotel was used by Generals hospital. Callaghan was a respected MacArthur and Eichelberger as citizen and sportsman with a love of their headquarters.