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Built 1864, the architect was Charles Porter. A year after Separation (1859), the Queensland colonial government set the Education Act, which authorised provisional schools, where the community raised one third funding. This pecentage was reduced in 1864, allowing for the South Brisbane Primary School. Additions to the two-storey school occurred in 1873, 1874 and 1878. Overcrowding saw the school split in 1888, with this site renamed Brisbane South Girls and Infants School. In 1928, this school closed and the site reopened as the Brisbane South Intermediate School in 1930. It closed n 1953. The South Brisbane Primary School relocatted to its original site from 1954-63. One of its buildings was already being used by the Brisbane State High School so the site was incorporated into ‘State High’ as Block ‘H’, when the high school relocated to this site and Vulture St in 1925.

Citations

Department of Enviroment and Heritage Protection, Queensland Heritage Register citation No.601222

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Map References

QSA. QSA Series ID 2043 City of Brisbane and Suburbs Maps – A1A Series. 1 chain to the inch. Plan of subdivision of section 30 City of Brisbane. 1 chain to an inch. Surveyor General’s Office, Brisbane.(quarter-size). 634488