Bellevue Homestead
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Bellevue Homestead, 2007
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| Location | Bellvue Homestead, Coominya, Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°23′20″S 152°30′14″E / 27.3889°S 152.5039°ECoordinates: 27°23′20″S 152°30′14″E / 27.3889°S 152.5039°E |
| Design period | 1870s - 1890s (late 19th century) |
| Built | c. 1872 - c. 1910 |
| Official name: Bellevue Homestead | |
| Type | state heritage (built, landscape) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600492 |
| Significant period | 1870s-1910s (historical) 1870s-1900s (fabric) |
| Significant components | residential accommodation - main house, decorative features, shed/s, kitchen/kitchen house, stables, gate - entrance, garden/grounds, gate - jump, residential accommodation - caretaker's quarters |
 Location of Bellevue Homestead in Queensland
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Bellevue Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead currently located in Coominya, Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from c. 1872 to c. 1910. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
The Bellevue property was the western part of the original Wivenhoe Run established in the 1840s which covered 38,000 acres (150 km2) on the western side of the Brisbane River valley. A large portion of this land is now part of the Wivenhoe Dam. The homestead was restored by the National Trust of Queensland between 1975 and 1980 after moving the buildings from the banks of the Brisbane River to the nearby town of Coominya to avoid being flooded.
In 1848, John Stephen Ferriter and Edmund Blucher Uhr squatted on 38,000 acres (150 km2) close to limits of convict colony of Moreton Bay and called it Wivenhoe Run after the town in England. They grazed sheep and built two single roomed huts. The eastern hut was called Wivenhoe Homestead and the western slab hut was called Bellevue Homestead. The following year Wivenhoe lease registered in New South Wales Government Gazette. A lease was purchased by Major William North Senior and son, Lieutenant Joseph North, of Fairney Lawn in 1858. Joseph North and wife lived in Wivenhoe Homestead and William North and wife lived in Bellevue Homestead hut. Soon after acquiring Wivenhoe, William North Snr established a 2,000 hectare section as Bellevue Station, on which he ran sheep.
In 1868, on the Bellevue portion, the Norths built a four-roomed family residence and a Governess' residence with school room, guest bedroom and head 's room. An old slab hut was retained as the kitchen in a service wing. Outside bathrooms and toilets were built. In 1868-1869, the Queensland Government resumed the eastern half of Wivenhoe Run for subdivision and closer settlement, but the Norths were allowed to keep the lease of western half, the Bellevue Selection, under pre-emptive selection rights. Livestock was changed from sheep to cattle in 1870. In 1872, the Bellevue lease was purchased by Alexander Dunbar Campbell and John Hay. Five Deeds of Grant were issued. The earliest sections of Bellevue Homestead appear to date from the 1870s. None of the 1860s buildings have survived, with the older parts of the present homestead most likely constructed after the North family transferred the Bellevue leasehold to Campbell and Hay in 1872.
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