Ithaca Town Council Chambers
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Ithaca Town Council Chambers, 2009
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| Location | 99 Enoggera Terrace, Red Hill, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°27′21″S 153°00′05″E / 27.4559°S 153.0015°ECoordinates: 27°27′21″S 153°00′05″E / 27.4559°S 153.0015°E |
| Design period | 1900–1914 (early 20th century) |
| Built | 1910 |
| Built for | Ithaca Town Council |
| Architect | Atkinson and McLay |
| Official name: Ithaca Town Council Chambers and Red Hill Kindergarten (former), Ithaca Library | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 24 March 2000 |
| Reference no. | 602058 |
| Significant period | 1910–1925 (historical) 1910-ongoing (social) 1910s (fabric council chambers) 1920s-1930s fabric |
| Significant components | office/s, shed – shelter, strong room, hall, furniture/fittings, council chamber/meeting room, views to |
| Builders | Charles Thomas Hall and Francis Joseph Mayer |
 Location of Ithaca Town Council Chambers in Queensland
Location of Ithaca Town Council Chambers in Queensland
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The Ithaca Town Council Chambers is a heritage-listed former town hall of the former local government area of the Town of Ithaca, and now a community centre in Paddington, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Located at 99 Enoggera Terrace (on the corner with Kennedy Terrace), Red Hill, it was designed by Atkinson and McLay and built in 1910 by Charles Thomas Hall and Francis Joseph Mayer. It is also known as Ithaca Library and Red Hill Kindergarten. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 24 March 2000.
In 2013, it was owned by Communify, a not-for-profit community group, who rent out the building for community activities.
Prominently situated on Enoggera Terrace, the former Ithaca Town Council Chambers comprises the Ithaca Library and Red Hill Kindergarten. Completed in 1910, the former Chambers were designed by Brisbane architects Henry Wallace Atkinson and Charles McLay, and built by Charles Thomas Hall and Francis Joseph Mayer.
The Municipality of Brisbane was proclaimed on 7 September 1859, shortly before the Separation of Queensland from New South Wales in December of that year. Although individual settlements such as Fortitude Valley, Kangaroo Point and South Brisbane agitated for separate municipality status, it was not until the Local Government Authorities Act of 1878 and the Divisional Boards Act of 1879 that a series of local authorities were created in the Brisbane Metropolitan area.
The Division of Ithaca was proclaimed in 1879, and was named after the birthplace of Lady Diamantina Bowen, wife of Queensland's first Governor, George Bowen. Ithaca comprised most of the western suburbs of Brisbane from Kelvin Grove Road to Mount Coot-tha and the head of Kelvin Grove Brook. An area just before the junction of Waterworks Road and Kelvin Grove Road formed the southeastern extremity of the Division.
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