Barcaldine Shire Hall
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Barcaldine Shire Hall, 1990
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| Location | Ash Street, Barcaldine, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 23°33′15″S 145°17′20″E / 23.5542°S 145.289°ECoordinates: 23°33′15″S 145°17′20″E / 23.5542°S 145.289°E |
| Design period | 1900 - 1914 (early 20th century) |
| Built | 1911 - 1912 |
| Built for | Barcaldine Shire Council |
| Architect | Alfred Mowbray Hutton |
| Architectural style(s) | Classicism |
| Official name: Barcaldine Shire Hall & Offices | |
| Type | state heritage (built, landscape) |
| Designated | 29 April 2003 |
| Reference no. | 601274 |
| Significant period | 1910s (historical) 1910s (fabric) 1911 - ongoing (social) |
| Significant components | views to, hall, memorial - gate/s, trees/plantings, furniture/fittings, council chamber/meeting room |
| Builders | Robinson & Freeman |
 Location of Barcaldine Shire Hall in Queensland
Location of Barcaldine Shire Hall in Queensland
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Barcaldine Shire Hall is a heritage-listed town hall at Ash Street, Barcaldine, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Alfred Mowbray Hutton and built from 1911 to 1912 by Robinson & Freeman. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 29 April 2003.
The present Barcaldine Shire Hall was built in 1911-1912 and is the second official building used by the Council for the administration of the Shire of Barcaldine. The building was designed by Alfred Mowbray Hutton. Major alterations were made to the building in 1952.
The town of Barcaldine developed almost "overnight" in 1886 with the extension of the Central Western Railway west from Rockhampton. The railway was a vital factor in opening up the central western regions of Queensland to European settlement in the mid to late nineteenth century. The original site of the terminus was to have been the pastoral station of Barcaldine Downs, established by pastoralist Donald Cameron in 1865. It was eventually decided to locate the terminus at Lagoon Creek however.
Barcaldine rapidly grew to prosperity, on a permanent scale, unlike most of the other railway townships on the central line. The town was surveyed by Victor Desgrand, the Government Surveyor, in July 1885 and sales of town lots were held in December. The town was laid out on a rectangular grid, parallel to and south of the railway line. A town reserve of 100 square miles was gazetted in June 1886, when further allotments of land were sold. The railway was not officially opened until December 1886, by which time the town had already "assumed formidable proportions". After a year of official European settlement, the population of Barcaldine in 1887 was estimated at 1500.
The Divisional Boards Act of 1879 brought local government into the outback of Queensland. The Kargoolnah Divisional Board was created in this year and centred on Blackall, an early pastoral township. The geographical area serviced by this board covered a great area in western Queensland, taking in the future towns of Tambo, Barcaldine and Jericho. With Barcaldine developed rapidly from 1886, the residents formed the Barcaldine Progress Association, and began agitating for their own municipal representation. In 1893, a Divisional Board at Barcaldine was instituted, which was to evolve into the Barcaldine Shire Council.
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