Gatton Agricultural College
| University of Queensland Gatton Campus | |
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Queensland Agricultural High School and College, Lawes near Gatton, June 1939
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| Location | Warrego Highway, Lawes, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°33′08″S 152°20′08″E / 27.5521°S 152.3356°ECoordinates: 27°33′08″S 152°20′08″E / 27.5521°S 152.3356°E |
| Design period | 1870s - 1890s (late 19th century) |
| Built | 1897 - 1960s |
| Owner | University of Queensland |
| Official name: University of Queensland Gatton Campus (Queensland University), Foundation Precinct Gatton College, Lawes Campus | |
| Type | state heritage (landscape, built, archaeological) |
| Designated | 6 January 2004 |
| Reference no. | 601672 |
| Significant period | 1890s, 1920s, 1940s (historical) 1890s-1940s (fabric) 1890s ongoing (social) |
| Significant components | gymnasium, oval/sports field, sewage pump house/pumping station, residential accommodation - headmaster's house, shop - blacksmith's, shed - hay, residential accommodation - caretaker's quarters, dairy/creamery, shearing shed/woolshed, shed/s, office/administration building, hall - dining, tower - water, dormitory, laboratory, sewage farm/treatment site, shed - potato, school/school room, weighbridge/weigh station, trees/plantings, shed - wool classing, silo, swimming pool, science block |
 Location of University of Queensland Gatton Campus in Queensland
Location of University of Queensland Gatton Campus in Queensland
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University of Queensland Gatton Campus is a heritage-listed university campus of the University of Queensland at Warrego Highway, Lawes, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1897 to 1960s. It is also known as Foundation Precinct Gatton College and Lawes Campus. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 6 January 2004.
The University of Queensland Gatton Campus was established in 1897 at Gatton as the Queensland Agricultural College. The College initially operated as a tertiary agricultural institution offering a basic practical and theoretical agricultural education for young men and short courses for farmers on specific topics, but from its inception, there was also an expectation that the College would be involved in agricultural research and experimentation. In 1922, it was re-structured as the Gatton Agricultural High School and College. From 1927, the College also took students from the University of Queensland for a year of practical experience. During the Second World War, the College was used as a field hospital by the United States Army from 1942 to 1944. After the war, it continued to operate as both a secondary and tertiary institution until the high school section was closed in 1962. In the 1960s the college began to diversify the courses on offer and the first women students enrolled in 1969. In 1990, the College merged with the University of Queensland.
The need to establish an agricultural college was first raised in Queensland Parliament in 1874 by Edward Wilmot Pechey, MLA for the Darling Downs. The development of scientific methods of agricultural production appropriate to Queensland was of both public and political concern and calls for a college and experimental farm continued to be made in the Parliament for the next two decades. Unlike the debate over the establishment of a university which divided those in favour of practical, applied education from those supporting humanist education for its own sake, agricultural education was widely supported in recognition of the essential role of primary production in the colony. It was also seen as a means to attract more people to settle and cultivate the land and it was proposed that several colleges were required to investigate agricultural methods for the various regions and climatic conditions in Queensland.
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