Maryborough School of Arts
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Maryborough School of Arts, 2008
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| Location | 427 Kent Street, Maryborough, Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 25°32′14″S 152°42′09″E / 25.5373°S 152.7024°ECoordinates: 25°32′14″S 152°42′09″E / 25.5373°S 152.7024°E |
| Design period | 1870s - 1890s (late 19th century) |
| Built | 1887 - 1888 |
| Architect | John Harry Grainger |
| Architectural style(s) | Classicism |
| Official name: School of Arts, Maryborough School of Arts, Museum, Technical College and Recreation Club | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600701 |
| Significant period | 1880s-1920s (historical) 1940s (WWII historical) 1880s-1910s (fabric) 1880s-1920s (social) |
| Significant components | school of arts |
| Builders | Jacob and John Rooney |
 Location of Maryborough School of Arts in Queensland
Location of Maryborough School of Arts in Queensland
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Maryborough School of Arts is a heritage-listed school of arts at 427 Kent Street, Maryborough, Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by John Harry Grainger and built from 1887 to 1888 by Jacob & John Rooney. It is also known as Museum and Technical College and Recreation Club. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
The Maryborough School of Arts was constructed in 1887-1888 to the design of Melbourne and Adelaide architect, John Grainger. The substantial two-storeyed rendered brick building replaced the first Maryborough School of Arts which was a small brick building constructed in 1861 soon after the establishment of a local School of Arts committee in 1860.
The original township of Maryborough was situated, not in its current place, but on the north of the Mary River, after wharves were established in 1847-8 providing transport for wool from sheep stations on the Burnett River. In 1850 Surveyor, Hugh Roland Labatt arrived in Maryborough with instructions to "examine the River Mary...to suggest ...the best site or sites for the laying out of the town, having regard to the convenience of shipping on one hand and internal communication on the other...also...point out the spots desirable as reserves for public building, church, quay and for places for public recreation." The site recommended by Labatt was not where settlement was established but further east and from the early 1850s this is where the growing town developed.
By 1860 the local community had decided upon the erection of a School of Arts, where technical classes could be held for adults and provision made for a public library. Schools of Arts were established all over Queensland in the nineteenth century, with the Brisbane School of Arts being the first in 1849. The institutions were part of a nineteenth-century British movement encouraging widespread popular education, particularly in industrial areas. Mechanics Institutes and later Schools of Arts, co-operative societies, working men's colleges and the university extension movement were all formed to improve the education of working men and instruct them in various trades. This movement broadened to include all types of adult education, both technical and cultural. Applied or useful arts, rather than fine arts, formed the basis of the education provided at the Schools of Arts, as they became the forerunners to the technical education movement and in fact usually provided class rooms for what latter became technical colleges.
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