Gona Barracks
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Gona Barracks, 2003
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| Location | 3, 7,12, 25 & 26 Gona Parade, Kelvin Grove, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°27′21″S 153°00′49″E / 27.4558°S 153.0136°ECoordinates: 27°27′21″S 153°00′49″E / 27.4558°S 153.0136°E |
| Design period | 1914–1919 (World War I) |
| Built | c. 1914 – 1960s |
| Official name: Gona Barracks, Kelvin Grove Military Reserve, Kelvin Grove Training Area | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 7 February 2005 |
| Reference no. | 601966 |
| Significant period | 1910s-1960s (fabric) 1910s-1990s (historical) |
| Significant components | drill ground/parade ground, workshop, slab/s – concrete, hut/shack, shed – gun park, petrol – bowser, trees/plantings, store/s / storeroom / storehouse, tree groups – avenue of, garage, road/roadway, hall – drill, toilet block/earth closet/water closet |
 Location of Gona Barracks in Queensland
Location of Gona Barracks in Queensland
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Gona Barracks is a heritage-listed barracks at 3, 7,12, 25 & 26 Gona Parade, Kelvin Grove, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from c. 1914 to 1960s. It is also known as Kelvin Grove Military Reserve and Kelvin Grove Training Area. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 7 February 2005.
The Gona Barracks site was established just prior to World War I in the 1910s, for the purpose of military training for specialist units of compulsory militia forces. The site continued to develop and became a Citizens Military Force training complex in the 1950s, and later an Army Reserve recruitment centre.
The settlement of Brisbane began in 1825 with the establishment of a penal colony along that part of the Brisbane River that was later to become the town's central business district. Transportation of convicts ceased less than twenty years later in 1842, and Brisbane was opened to free settlement. The town was surveyed, and land to the north and west of Spring Hill, an area of early settlement, was made into park land. West of Victoria Park, the largest of the government reserves, the area now known as Kelvin Grove was cleared, and subdivided and offered for sale by the 1860s. The site that was eventually to become Gona Barracks was listed as Portion 322, Parish of North Brisbane, County of Stanley.
On 28 March 1879, Portion 322 was granted by the colonial government to the Brisbane Grammar School as an endowment. The school retained the endowment until 1911, leasing grazing rights to the holding as a means of raising funds for the school. No buildings were thought to have been constructed on the site throughout this period, and the only improvement to the endowment was the construction of a number of fences.
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