Anzac Square Building
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Lower floors of the Anzac Square Building, corner of Edward and Adelaide Street
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| Location | 255A Ann Street, Brisbane City, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°28′01″S 153°01′34″E / 27.4669°S 153.0261°ECoordinates: 27°28′01″S 153°01′34″E / 27.4669°S 153.0261°E |
| Design period | 1919 - 1930s (interwar period) |
| Built | 1931 - 1959 |
| Architect | John Smith Murdoch |
| Architectural style(s) | Classicism |
| Official name: Former Queensland Government Offices (Anzac Square Building), Adina Hotels, State Government Offices/The Murdoch Apartments/Hotel | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600059 |
| Significant period | 1930s-1950s (fabric) 1930s-1990s (historical) |
| Builders | A H Mason |
 Location of Anzac Square Building in Queensland
Location of Anzac Square Building in Queensland
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Anzac Square Building is a heritage-listed office building at 255A Ann Street, Brisbane City, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by John Smith Murdoch and built from 1931 to 1959 by A H Mason. It is also known as Queensland Government Offices, State Government Offices, Adina Apartments Hotel, and Murdoch Apartments & Hotel. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
The Queensland Government Offices were built in stages commencing in 1931 and completed by 1959. It forms an integral part of the design by John Smith Murdoch, Chief Architect of the Commonwealth, for the block bounded by Edward, Ann, Creek and Adelaide Streets and consisting of separate state and federal government offices flanking a memorial square.
Prior to the construction of the Queensland Government Offices the site was occupied by the old Normal School, near the Edward and Adelaide Streets corner, and a fire station at the corner of Edward and Ann Streets. The land for the Normal School was originally granted in 1852 to the Board for National Education. Further grants were made to the Board of General Education in 1861. The Normal School opened in 1863. The school acquired more land along the Ann Street frontage in 1871 but in 1889 the allotment at the corner of Ann and Edward Streets was dedicated for a Fire Brigade Station Reserve. A fire station, designed by Henry Wallace Atkinson, was built in 1890.
The Commonwealth Government owned much of the remaining part of the block. Around 1910 it was investigating a proposal to create a square in front of the Central Railway Station that would serve as a fitting entrance to the city. The idea of a square dedicated to the memory of the Anzacs was first raised soon after the Gallipoli campaign in 1916. A committee was formed in 1919 by Lt Col Donald Charles Cameron to lobby for the creation of a commemorative square that would occupy the entire block. In 1921 the Commonwealth Standing Committee on Public Works decided to erect a National War Memorial as part of the redevelopment of the block.
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