Gladstone House and Cottage
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 Location of Gladstone House and Cottage in Queensland
Location of Gladstone House and Cottage in Queensland
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| Location | 1B-3 Gladstone Street, Newtown, Toowoomba, Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°32′41″S 151°56′26″E / 27.5447°S 151.9406°ECoordinates: 27°32′41″S 151°56′26″E / 27.5447°S 151.9406°E |
| Design period | 1900 - 1914 (early 20th century) |
| Built | c. 1908 |
| Built for | Henry James (Harry) Marks |
| Architect | Henry James (Harry) Marks |
| Official name: Gladstone House and Cottage, St Rest | |
| Type | state heritage (built, landscape) |
| Designated | 13 January 1995 |
| Reference no. | 601303 |
| Significant period | 1900s (fabric, historical) |
| Significant components | shed - storage, trees/plantings, furniture/fittings, clerestory, residential accommodation - main house, residential accommodation - gatehouse/lodge, garden/grounds |
Gladstone House and Cottage is a heritage-listed detached house at 1B-3 Gladstone Street, Newtown, Toowoomba, Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Harry Marks for himself and built c. 1908. It is also known as St Rest. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 13 January 1995.
This single storeyed timber house, also referred to as St Rest, was completed c. 1908, for prominent Toowoomba architect, Henry James (Harry) Marks. The Cottage, known also as the former Gate-keeper's Cottage, was probably erected at around this time.
Gladstone House is situated on part of Portion 86, originally an area of 93 acres northwest of the central business district of Toowoomba, located in the former Gowrie Shire. Portion 86, acquired by John Shipman, was one of a number of allotments ranging in size from 22-133 acres on the western side of Toowoomba, which were auctioned in February 1858. The sale of these lots was one of a series of land sales at Toowoomba from 1849, and the success of these early sales provided the stimulus for the development of Toowoomba as the principal town of the district.
Shipman's land was known as Eton Farm, described as the best cultivated farm in the district, on which he grew wheat, oats, barley, lucerne and corn. Shipman also established an orchard, a vegetable garden, a dairy, piggery, stockyards, and a small horse stud on his farm.
Shipman died in 1862, and his land was subdivided during the late 1880s. Thomas Jones acquired 90 acres of Portion 86 early in 1889. Jones further subdivided the land into two parts, one of which was transferred to Mrs Ada McDougall, a Toowoomba widow, later in 1889. Mrs McDougall took out several mortgages on the land, before it was acquired by George Wonderley, a Toowoomba solicitor, in 1898.
During the late 1880s and early 1890s, the residential area of Toowoomba rapidly expanded, as large holdings in the smaller shires surrounding Toowoomba were subdivided for residential allotments.
Wonderley commenced the subdivision and sale of the newly created blocks from early 1899. William Robinson acquired six of these blocks, comprising three acres in 1900. Between 1903-1904, Harry Marks and his wife Katharine acquired four adjoining allotments on the west corner of Gladstone and Jellicoe streets (subs 31-34), and three allotments on the opposite corner of Gladstone Street (subs 63-65). The Marks' sold subs 63-65 in 1907.
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