Landsborough Shire Council Chambers
| Landsborough Shire Council Chambers | |
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Landsborough Shire Museum, formerly Landsborough Shire Council Chambers, 2008
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| Location | 6 Maleny Street, Landsborough, Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 26°48′35″S 152°57′53″E / 26.8097°S 152.9647°ECoordinates: 26°48′35″S 152°57′53″E / 26.8097°S 152.9647°E |
| Design period | 1919 - 1930s (interwar period) |
| Built | 1924 |
| Architect | Walter Carey Voller |
| Architectural style(s) | Classicism |
| Official name: Landsborough Shire Council Chambers (former), Landsborough Shire Historical Museum | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 24 June 1999 |
| Reference no. | 601915 |
| Significant period | 1920s-1970s (historical) 1924-ongoing (social) 1920s (fabric) |
| Significant components | views to, council chamber/meeting room, office/s |
| Builders | Alfred Ernest Round |
 Location of Landsborough Shire Council Chambers in Queensland
Location of Landsborough Shire Council Chambers in Queensland
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Landsborough Shire Council Chambers is a heritage-listed former town hall and now museum at 6 Maleny Street, Landsborough, Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Walter Carey Voller and built in 1924 by Alfred Ernest Round for the Landsborough Shire Council. It is also known as Landsborough Shire Historical Museum. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 24 June 1999.
The first European settlement was established in the Landsborough, originally known as Mellum Creek, by Isaac Burgess in 1871. His slab hut on the north of Gympie Road near Mellum Creek became a Cobb & Co. staging post on the run to the Gympie gold fields. Settlement of the area expanded particularly with the arrival of the North Coast railway line from Caboolture in 1890. Named Landsborough after the explorer William Landsborough, the Landsborough railway station became the focus for a town centre and the town of Mellum Creek was renamed Landsborough.
Local government for the region was administered by the Caboolture Divisional Board from 1880. The Caboolture Shire, proclaimed in 1903, assumed responsibility for the administration of the regions of Pine Rivers, Landsborough, Kilcoy, Maroochy, Caboolture and Redcliffe. In February 1912, 423 acres were annexed from Caboolture Shire and proclaimed Landsborough Shire. The first Council meeting for the newly formed Shire was held on 20 April 1912. A Council residence and one room office was constructed in 1913 and was used for meetings of the Council until the first purpose-built Chambers was opened in 1924.
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