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Gracemere Station

Gracemere Homestead
Gracemere Homestead (1996).jpg
Gracemere Homestead, 1996
Location 234 Gracemere Road, Gracemere, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia
Coordinates 23°25′36″S 150°26′46″E / 23.4267°S 150.446°E / -23.4267; 150.446Coordinates: 23°25′36″S 150°26′46″E / 23.4267°S 150.446°E / -23.4267; 150.446
Design period 1840s - 1860s (mid-19th century)
Built 1858 - 1890s
Built for Archer brothers
Official name: Gracemere Homestead
Type state heritage (built, landscape, archaeological)
Designated 21 October 1992
Reference no. 600508
Significant period 1850s-1860s (historical)
1850s-1890s (fabric)
Significant components office/s, yards - livestock, mill - wind, decorative features, boat shed, wall/s - retaining, shed/s, tree groups - avenue of, jetty/pier, residential accommodation - guest house/s, furniture/fittings, shop - blacksmith's, residential accommodation - main house, out building/s, store/s / storeroom / storehouse, chimney/chimney stack, kitchen/kitchen house, garden - rock / rockery, garden - ornamental/flower, tank - water
Gracemere Homestead is located in Queensland
Gracemere Homestead
Location of Gracemere Homestead in Queensland
Gracemere Homestead is located in Australia
Gracemere Homestead
Location of Gracemere Homestead in Queensland

Gracemere Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead at 234 Gracemere Road, Gracemere, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1858 to 1890s. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.

Gracemere Homestead comprises a number of single storey, timber and corrugated iron structures, including a large house, characteristic of a Central Queensland pastoral property established during the 1850s. These structures are complemented by an extensive sub-tropical garden and other significant landscape elements. The Archer family and their family company have owned Gracemere Homestead for almost 150 years. The first wing of the house was designed by Colin Archer and built in 1858. An additional wing was constructed sometime between 1862 and 1874. Charles and William Archer were the first Europeans to enter the area where the homestead and the city of Rockhampton now stand.

The Archers were of Scottish extraction but in 1825 the family moved to southern Norway. Each of the nine sons eventually came to Australia, remaining for varying periods of time before returning to Europe. The first son significant to the story of Gracemere Homestead was David Archer, who arrived in 1834 to work on an uncle's property in New South Wales. Two of his brothers, Thomas and William, followed in 1837. The young men formed a partnership to establish Durundur, a sheep station on the Stanley River north of Brisbane in 1840-41. They were amongst the earliest pastoralists in the Moreton Bay region. Seeking further pastoral land they explored north along the river systems, selecting Emu Creek, Cooyar, Coonambula and Eidsvold on the Upper Burnett in 1848. Sometime between 1843 and 1852 the eldest Archer son, Charles, arrived from Norway. In 1852 David returned to Norway and was replaced by Colin, the eighth brother.


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