Stage Number: MBNH.07.03.16
Group: Western
Local Study Area: Bardon-Red Hill-Milton-Kelvin Grove
Epoch: Early 20th Century
Street Address: 249 Coronation Drive, Milton
Latitude & Longitude: -27.47227778,153.00597222
Time Link: 1922
Map Link: 1923
Image Time Point: 1923
JB Cook, who was a builder, applied to the Toowong Shire Council to build an hotel on the corner of Cribb Street and The River Road in 1887, but the Council rejected the proposal as it felt it was not necessary. There were two other hotels in the district. J B Cook then built Cook Terrace as his own residence after the application was rejected. Architects of the building were Taylor & Richer of 169 Queen Street, Brisbane. By 1922 Cook Terrace were also known as the Home Flats. Mr and Mrs Frederick and Ethel Laugher, brother and sister-in-law of the Misses Laugher after whom Laugher Park was named, leased a terrace house here c.1922-1929.
Toowong District 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. 634900; Queensland History Journal, May 14 Vol 22, No.5, p 396-7; Leigh Chamberlain, The Laugher sisters of Toowong and their park, Toowong and District Historical Society, 2011.
