Stage Number: MBSH.03.03.32
Group: Southern
Local Study Area: Bulimba-Balmoral-Hawthorne-Morningside
Epoch: Early 20th Century
Street Address: 590 Wynnum Rd, Mornngside
Latitude & Longitude: -27.46855556,153.07061111
Time Link: 1926
Map Link: 1929
Image Time Point: 1929
Morningside developed into a fashionable suburb after WWI. There was seen to be the need for a community facility to hold a libray and meeting rooms and which could be leased for dances, balls, public lectures and church services. The site chosen for the proposed School of Arts was beside busy Wynnum Road, close to the Balmoral tram line terminus. Fundraising during the early 1920s enabled a contract to be awarded to builders Crowther & Sons. The firm completed this substantial brick School of Arts by 1926. Like Brisbane’s other, similar buildings, it became the property of the Greater Brisbane City Council. This hall remains in community use.
Brisbane City Council, Heritage Register Summary, http://bit.ly/2JXeWic
QSA. QSA Series 1690 Civic Survey of the City of Brisbane – AIAG2 Series. 4 chains to the inch. City of Brisbane, civic survey maps. Sheet 24, 4 chains to an inch. annotated with details of sales. 618944
