Elder Smith Woolstore
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Elder Smith Woolstore, 2010
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| Location | 64 Macquarie Street, Teneriffe, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°27′34″S 153°02′59″E / 27.4595°S 153.0496°ECoordinates: 27°27′34″S 153°02′59″E / 27.4595°S 153.0496°E |
| Design period | 1919 - 1930s (interwar period) |
| Built | 1926 |
| Architect | Montague Stanley |
| Architectural style(s) | Italianate |
| Official name: Elder Smith Woolstore | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600322 |
| Significant period | 1920s (fabric) 1926-1983 (historical use) |
| Builders | Stuart Brothers (Sydney) |
 Location of Elder Smith Woolstore in Queensland
Location of Elder Smith Woolstore in Queensland
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Elder Smith Woolstore is a heritage-listed warehouse at 64 Macquarie Street, Teneriffe, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Montague Stanley and built in 1926 by Stuart Brothers (Sydney). It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
The site of the Elders Smith woolstore has had several important owners, including the Government Resident, Captain John Clements Wickham, in 1847 and James Gibbon (Member of the Queensland Legislative Council) of Teneriffe House. The first building constructed on the site in 1926 was the Moreheads woolstore, the design being by Montague Talbot Stanley, a Queensland architect and structural engineer, with the construction by the Stuart Bros of Sydney.
Queensland pastoralist, businessman and politician, Boyd Dunlop Morehead (1843-1905) founded BD Morehead & Co. in association with AB Buchanan in 1873. This was a prominent mercantile business and stock and station agency, of which Morehead was the chairman of directors. Moreheads was largely responsible for the inaugurating of the Brisbane wool auctions in 1898. Moreheads Ltd continued operating until 1961 when taken over by Elders, one of the three remaining pastoral houses in Australia.
Oxlade Investments, which belongs to the Mayfairs group of companies, purchased the property in 1983 and all three floors have subsequently been utilised by the Wool Store furniture centre in conjunction with the Australian Estates No. 1 Store next door and Australian Estates No. 2 Store.
The Elder Smith & Co. Woolstore is a stylish three-storey brick and timber structure of the Interwar era with restrained Renaissance detail. In keeping with other woolstores and commercial buildings of this period, a tripartite division of base, shaft and entablature is apparent in its functional form.
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