Corbett and Son Store
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| Location | 446-452 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°27′36″S 153°02′14″E / 27.4599°S 153.0373°ECoordinates: 27°27′36″S 153°02′14″E / 27.4599°S 153.0373°E |
| Design period | 1900 - 1914 (early 20th century) |
| Built | 1908 |
| Built for | Patrick and Michael Corbett |
| Architect | Robin Dods |
| Official name: Corbett and Son Store (former), Diamonds Dry Cleaners, Isis Restaurant, Peerless Dry Cleaners | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 26 May 2000 |
| Reference no. | 601022 |
| Significant period | 1900s (fabric) 1908-1930s (historical use as grocery store). |
| Significant components | basement / sub-floor, shed/s |
 Location of Corbett and Son Store in Queensland
Location of Corbett and Son Store in Queensland
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Corbett and Son Store is a heritage-listed store at 446-452 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Robin Dods and built in 1908. It is also known as Diamonds Dry Cleaners, Isis Restaurant, and Peerless Dry Cleaners. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 26 May 2000.
This brick single-storied with basement store was designed by architect RS (Robin) Dods in 1908 for wine merchants and grocers, Patrick and Michael Corbett.
The site, located on the corner of Brunswick and Robertson (then Jane) Streets, was purchased in 1907 by the Corbetts (who had operated a grocery store from the site since 1885) from the estate of Angus Ross subject to an easement, which provided rear access to nearby properties fronting Brunswick St. Ross had acquired the site, which formed part of the eastern suburban allotment (ESA) 37 by deed of grant in 1851, just two years after John Dunmore Lang's privately sponsored immigrants made their settlement in what became known as Fortitude (after one of the immigrant ships) Valley. According to the post office directories, the site remains unoccupied until 1878, when part of it is leased to builder and grocer, Frederick T Smith. By this time, this part of Brunswick Street, which provided the major thoroughfare to New Farm, is starting to develop as a mixed use area, combining small commercial and residential premises.
During the 1880s, development of this section of the Valley intensifies: Brunswick Street between John and Jane Streets now includes a number of commercial premises (music teacher, collar and harness maker, dyer and furrier, painter, and fruiterer) as well as two stores located on the subject site, including from 1885 a grocery store at no.450 operated by Patrick Corbett. Nearby on the opposite side of Jane Street, John Lennon's two story masonry premises (ground floor shop with residence on upper floor) are erected in 1885; and on the opposite side of Brunswick Street, two substantial tobacco factories are constructed in 1889 (Cameron Bros, later to become a brewery and Robert Dixson and Co).
In the 1890s, despite a downturn in the Queensland economy, the Valley continued to develop, led by the large retailers, TC Beirne and James McWhirter whose Brunswick Street drapers stores quickly grew to become large department stores, and further fuelled by the developing Brisbane tram network in which the Valley was a central node. By the turn of the century the Valley was established as the second major commercial district of the city supplanting South Brisbane and the Woolloongabba Fiveways. Corbett's store, although on the fringe of the main Valley commercial area, would conceivably have benefited from this development as well as from the increasing residential population as the land on both sides of Brunswick Street was subdivided.
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