Stage Number: MBSH.03.01.60
Group: Southern
Local Study Area: West End-South Brisbane-North Woolloongabba
Epoch: Early 20th Century
Street Address: 638 and 640 Stanley St, Woolloongibba
Latitude & Longitude: -27.48553611,153.03067222
Time Link: 1927
Map Link: 1936
Image Time Point: 1936
Built 1927. Constructed during Brisbane’s second building boom of the 1920’s it reflected the changes to Wooloongabba, which had become an inner-city suburb on the south-side. The hotel could draw new custom from the Wooloongabba Rail Yards (closed 1967) and the large or small facories that had opened in the surrounding area. The opening of the first section of the South East Freeway, next to the hotel, in November 1972, seperated it from one half of ‘The Gabba’s’ shopping precinct. The adjacent storeroom that became a liqour barn in the 1980s, was later destroyed by fire. The expansion of the Mater Hospital precinct on the hotel’s southern side is making ‘The Morrison’ further isolated.
Brisbane City Council, Exploring the City of South Brisbane: Heritage Trail Series No.11, (Brisbane, BCC, c1999)
Qimagery. Brisbane 1936. Scale: 1:11,000.
