Bulletin Building, Rockhampton
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Bulletin Building, 2005
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| Location | 162-164 Quay Street, Rockhampton, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 23°22′36″S 150°30′48″E / 23.3766°S 150.5134°ECoordinates: 23°22′36″S 150°30′48″E / 23.3766°S 150.5134°E |
| Design period | 1919 - 1930s (interwar period) |
| Built | 1926 |
| Architect | Roy Chipps |
| Architectural style(s) | Stripped Classicism |
| Official name: Bulletin Building | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 5 December 2005 |
| Reference no. | 601582 |
| Significant period | 1920s (fabric) 1927-ongoing (historical use) |
| Significant components | machinery/plant/equipment - communications |
| Builders | R Cousins & Company |
 Location of Bulletin Building, Rockhampton in Queensland
Location of Bulletin Building, Rockhampton in Queensland
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Bulletin Building is a heritage-listed printing house at 162-164 Quay Street, Rockhampton, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Roy Chipps and built in 1926 by R Cousins & Company. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 5 December 2005.
Constructed in 1926, the Bulletin Building was built by R Cousins & Company, to a design by prominent Rockhampton architect, Roy Chipps. A purpose-built newspaper office, the Bulletin Building was constructed when an earlier building on site was demolished. Established in 1861, The Morning Bulletin remains as Rockhampton's oldest newspaper.
The Morning Bulletin earned a dominating position among the city's press is largely due to a long line of distinguished editors beginning with its founder William Hitchcock Buzacott and his brother, Charles Hardie Buzacott between 1861-1880. From 1880 and 1911, William McIlwraith and John Blair were the proprietors of the newspaper. In 1911, McIlwraith and Blair were followed by three generations of the Dunn family company, who carried the Bulletin into the modern age and the subsequent competition of electronic media.
Since 1861 the Bulletin's only name changes has been the dropping of "Northern Queensland Advertiser" from the title and in 1873 its emergence as the Morning Bulletin.
The original home of The Morning Bulletin was in Quay Street near the Customs House in a timber building owned by John Ward. On 14 August 1862 the Bulletin office burnt down and the presses destroyed. Following the destruction of the first building by fire, the office of The Morning Bulletin was moved to a two-storeyed masonry building in Denham Street.
The popularity of The Morning Bulletin was such that, from 1873, it began the new year as a daily newspaper. It was the first daily paper, outside of Brisbane, issued in Queensland.
Following the death of WH Buzacott in 1880, William McIlwraith became the owner of the Morning Bulletin. In 1883, McIlwraith was joined in partnership by John Blair.
It was during McIlwraith's ownership, in the early 1880s when, with increases in the local population and the circulation of the paper, the Denham Street building became too small to house the growing staff. At this time, the office was moved to a building in East Street. It was from this office in East Street that a larger office in Quay Street was planned in the mid-1920s.
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