Junction Park State School
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Front entrance, Depression-era brick school building as seen from Waldheim Street, 2015
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| Location | 50 Waldheim Street, Annerley, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°30′34″S 153°02′07″E / 27.5095°S 153.0352°ECoordinates: 27°30′34″S 153°02′07″E / 27.5095°S 153.0352°E |
| Design period | 1919-1930s Interwar period |
| Built | 1909–1910,1928–1929,1934,1935–1936,1935 |
| Architectural style(s) | Classicism |
| Official name: Junction Park State School; Thompson Estate State School (former) | |
| Type | state heritage |
| Designated | 6 May 2016 |
| Reference no. | 650023 |
| Type | Education, Research, Scientific Facility: School - state (primary) |
| Theme | Educating Queenslanders: Providing primary schooling |
| Builders | Queensland Department of Public Works, MR Hornibrook |
 Location of Junction Park State School in Queensland
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Junction Park State School is a heritage-listed state school at 50 Waldheim Street, Annerley, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1909 to 1910 by the Queensland Department of Public Works and MR Hornibrook. It is also known as the former Thompson Estate State School. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 6 May 2016.
Junction Park State School opened on its present site in 1891 as the Thompson Estate State School, to accommodate the growing suburban population of a previously rural district on the southern outskirts of Brisbane. Junction Park State School retains two early swimming pools (1910, 1929) and a Depression-era brick school building (1936) with associated concrete retaining walls (c.1935) and brick toilet blocks (1934). Set in landscaped grounds with mature shade trees, the school has been in continuous operation since establishment and has been a focus for the local community as a place for important social and cultural activity.
The Junction Park State School is today located in the suburb of Annerley, part of the traditional lands of the Turrbal and Jagera people. Annerley was originally part of an area called "Boggo", which ran from Dutton Park to Rocky Water Holes (later Rocklea). The Junction Hotel, established at the junction of Boggo Road (now Annerley Road) and Ipswich Road in 1866, was the beginning of a township at that location, known as Boggo until being renamed Annerley in 1892. Local farms, surveyed in the late 1850s, were replaced by suburbs from the late-19th century, due to the area's proximity to South Brisbane. Development was facilitated by construction of the Corinda–Yeerongpilly railway line in 1884 and the extension of an electric tram service from Woolloongabba to Dudley Street (south of the Junction Hotel) in 1899. The tramline was later extended south to Cracknell Road (north of Yeronga Park) in 1914.
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