Glengariff, Hendra
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Building in 2015
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| Location | 5 Derby Street, Hendra, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°25′12″S 153°04′07″E / 27.42°S 153.0685°ECoordinates: 27°25′12″S 153°04′07″E / 27.42°S 153.0685°E |
| Design period | 1970s–1990s (late 20th century) |
| Built | 1888 – 1889 |
| Architect | Robin Dods, Hubert George Octavius Thomas |
| Official name: Glengariff, Dura, Glenaplin | |
| Type | state heritage (built, landscape) |
| Designated | 21 August 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600222 |
| Significant period | 1880s–1950s (fabric) 1880s, 1898–1970s (historical) |
| Significant components | lead light/s, tank – water (underground), driveway, service wing, tower – observation/lookout, residential accommodation – main house, trees/plantings, garden/grounds |
 Location of Glengariff in Queensland
Location of Glengariff in Queensland
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Glengariff is a heritage-listed villa at 5 Derby Street, Hendra, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Hubert George Octavius Thomas, with 1907 alterations by Robin Dods, and built from 1888 to 1889. It is also known as Dura and Glenaplin. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 August 1992.
Glengariff (then called Dura) was erected in 1888-89 for bank manager Edward Jones by architect Hubert George Octavius Thomas. The site consisting of some 19 blocks (described as sections 87-105 of allotment 16 portion 2) totally nearly 5 acres was acquired by Jones in 1886 from the Queensland Turf Club. Located a short distance to the north of the Eagle Farm Racecourse, it had formed part of the original grant made in 1863 of over 300 acres to the Turf Club to enable the club to re-establish its racecourse, then at New Farm, at Eagle Farm. To overcome financial difficulties, parts of the original grant were sold off by the Club; the first subdivisions (of a number of 4-5 acre blocks) occurred in 1878. The Glengariff holding formed part of a second subdivision of some 180 blocks in the area roughly bound by Manson, Zillman, Gerler, and Nudgee Roads; street names such as Derby Street (after races, racecourses, and Turf Club trustees) alluding to the area's turf origins.
The 1880s was a period of great economic prosperity in Queensland – no better evidenced than the resulting building boom which transformed the central business districts of many of the state's towns. In the suburbs of Brisbane, that prosperity was also evidenced in the substantial villa residences erected by the princes of the commercial world. In the midst of the boom, the Commercial Bank of Australia (established in Melbourne in 1866) opened its Brisbane branch in 1886 with Edward Jones as its manager. The Hendra site selected by Jones for his own suburban villa was somewhat unlikely, possessing neither elevation nor proximity to the river. It did however have proximity to the state's premier racecourse and to the recently opened Sandgate / City Railway line (via Hendra railway station). A number of other substantial houses had also been erected in the vicinity including:
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