Bulimba House
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Residence in 2015
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| Location | 34 Kenbury Street, Bulimba, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°26′46″S 153°03′15″E / 27.4461°S 153.0542°ECoordinates: 27°26′46″S 153°03′15″E / 27.4461°S 153.0542°E |
| Design period | 1840s - 1860s (mid-19th century) |
| Built | 1849-1850 |
| Architect | Andrew Petrie |
| Official name: Bulimba House, Toogoolawah | |
| Type | state heritage (built, landscape) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600179 |
| Significant period | 1849- |
| Significant components | garden/grounds, flagpole/flagstaff, residential accommodation - main house, carriage way/drive |
| Builders | Andrew Petrie |
 Location of Bulimba House in Queensland
Location of Bulimba House in Queensland
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Bulimba House is a heritage-listed detached house at 34 Kenbury Street, Bulimba, Queensland, Australia. It was designed and built by Andrew Petrie from 1849 to 1850. It is also known as Toogoolawah. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
Bulimba House was erected in 1849-50 for early Queensland pastoralist David McConnel, who in 1841 had established Cressbrook in the Brisbane Valley, the second run in the Moreton Bay district of New South Wales.
In mid-1849 he purchased 173 acres (69 hectares) of land on the angle of the Brisbane River approximately five miles downstream from Brisbane Town. The subtropical rainforest area was known to the local Aborigines as Tugulawa or Toogoolawah, meaning "shape of heart". Here McConnel established an experimental farm, attempting to prove that cash-crop agriculture was a viable activity in Moreton Bay. Early crops included cotton, wheat, barley, maize, oats, lucerne, rye grass and yams.
Whilst residing at Kangaroo Point in the second half of 1849, McConnel employed builder Andrew Petrie to construct the house at Toogoolawah, the first masonry Tudor style homestead in the Brisbane region. The stone, as sandstone without directional grain, was quarried from the nearby Quarries Reach of the Brisbane River, and Moreton Bay cedar was employed in both the structure and the finishes. Cabinetmaker Robert Towell was engaged to craft most of the furniture on the spot, using local cedar and stained pine.
McConnel and his wife Mary moved to Toogoolawah in December 1849, living in the detached service wing until the main house was completed. By 1852 they were using the Aboriginal name from the Whites Hill area which was already the official name for the whole parish - Bulimba, meaning place of the magpie lark or peewee.
Situated on a rise in the centre of the property, Bulimba House overlooked the entire estate and boasted sweeping panoramic views from every window. It functioned as the centrepiece of a model manorial farm which, besides the cash cropping, operated self-sufficiently with a dairy herd, numerous livestock and poultry, kitchen garden and extensive orchard.
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