Stage Number: MBSH.05.01.30
Group: Western
Local Study Area: Chelmer-Graceville-Sherwood
Epoch: Late 20th Century
Street Address: 85 Bank Road, Graceville
Latitude & Longitude: -27.52069444,152.97125
Time Link: 1958
Map Link: 1958
Image Time Point: 1958
In 1957 Dr Felix Dittmer, briefly the state deputy Labor leader, sold the property to the Glad Tidings Tabernacle, the mother church for the Assemblies of God denomination in Queensland. Dittmer’s historical home was originally called “Verney”, and was erected in 1888 for newspaper proprietor Charles Hardie Buzacott. The historic home, as it changed its name a few times, had several owners before Dittmer — the members of the the Queensland Legislative Assembly, John Ferguson and Joshua Thomas Bell, and the Gulf pastoralist James Stanislaus Kirby. In 1958 the renamed Beth-Eden and officially opened as a retirement home.
Oxley-Chemler History Group Inc.
QSA. QSA Series ID 2058 Moreton District Maps – A Series. 6 miles to the inch. Moreton District. 6 miles to the inch. Survey Office, Brisbane. 634909
