Glen Alpine, Toowoomba
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Front of the residence, 2014
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| Location | 32-36 East Street, Redwood, Toowoomba, Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°33′41″S 151°58′39″E / 27.5613°S 151.9776°ECoordinates: 27°33′41″S 151°58′39″E / 27.5613°S 151.9776°E |
| Design period | 1914 - 1919 (World War I) |
| Built | c. 1918 |
| Architect | Harry Marks |
| Official name: Glen Alpine | |
| Type | state heritage (landscape, built) |
| Designated | 11 June 1993 |
| Reference no. | 600842 |
| Significant period | 1910s (fabric) 1910s-1950s (historical) |
| Significant components | garage, carriage way/drive, views from, service corridor, pond/s - garden, fernery, trees/plantings, wall/s - retaining, wall/s - garden, garden/grounds, residential accommodation - main house |
 Location of Glen Alpine in Queensland
Location of Glen Alpine in Queensland
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Glen Alpine is a heritage-listed villa at 32-36 East Street, Redwood, Toowoomba, Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Toowoomba architect Harry Marks and built c. 1918. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 11 June 1993.
Glen Alpine is a two-storey timber residence which is believed to have been built c. 1918 for Albert Rowbotham, of the Toowoomba firm Rowbotham and Co., bootmakers. The house was possibly designed by prominent Toowoomba architect, Harry J. Marks.
The land was granted to Thomas Perkins in 1875, then acquired by William Shaw in 1876. It appears that there may have been a previous dwelling also named Glen Alpine on the same site, possibly as early as 1882-83 when Richard Cobb, a Toowoomba builder and contractor acquired the land. Cobb was recorded as living at "The Range" between 1883 and 1887. The land was acquired by David Laughland Brown of the softgoods firm Messrs. D. L. Brown and Co in 1887. Between 1887 and 1910 there were various references in the Post Office Directories and Toowoomba newspapers to Brown and his family at Glen Alpine, Main Range. Rowbotham acquired the land in 1918. The house was purchased in 1931 by Neal Macrossan, then a Barrister-at-law and later a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. It appears that Neal Macrossan and his wife Eileen (daughter of T.C. Beirne) purchased Glen Alpine as a holiday home, indicative of the way in which Toowoomba was viewed as a "summer resort" for heat-oppressed coastal Queenslanders (including the Queensland Governors), and a weekend escape for day trippers from Brisbane.
A swimming pool was built at Glen Alpine in 1931, designed by William Hodgen Jnr. It was one of the first domestic swimming pools built in Toowoomba.
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