National Mutual Life Building, Brisbane
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National Mutual Life Building (then Custom Credit House), 2009
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| Location | 299 Queen Street, Brisbane City, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°28′03″S 153°01′42″E / 27.4676°S 153.0284°ECoordinates: 27°28′03″S 153°01′42″E / 27.4676°S 153.0284°E |
| Design period | 1919 - 1930s (interwar period) |
| Built | 1926 |
| Architect | Gibbs, Finlay & Morsby, Thomas Blair Moncrieff Wightman |
| Official name: Custom Credit House, Metway Chambers, National Mutual Life Building | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600151 |
| Significant period | 1926s (fabric) 1926-1981 (historical) |
| Significant components | residential accommodation - caretaker's quarters |
| Builders | J L Green & Sons |
 Location of National Mutual Life Building in Queensland
Location of National Mutual Life Building in Queensland
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National Mutual Life Building is a heritage-listed office building at 299 Queen Street, Brisbane City, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Gibbs, Finlay & Morsby in conjunction with Thomas Blair Moncrieff Wightman and was built in 1926 by J L Green & Sons. It is also known as Metway Chambers and Custom Credit House. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
National Mutual Life Building was constructed in 1926. Part of this site was purchased by the National Mutual Life Association of Australasia in January 1883 for the association's headquarters. Title to the adjoining allotment was acquired by the association in July 1920. National Mutual Life proposed the reconstruction of its central offices on the site in 1925. Other contemporaneous redevelopments near the site included the Commonwealth Bank (1929), Colonial Mutual Life (1930–31) and the AMP building (1930–34).
Designed by Melbourne architects Gibbs, Finlay and Morsby, in conjunction with Thomas Blair Moncrieff Wightman, Brisbane, the new seven storey building provided 114 offices, a basement and caretaker's quarters on the roof. The tender of JL Green and Sons, contractors, was accepted in January 1926, the former offices were demolished in February and construction began.
National Mutual Life occupied the building until 1981 when the property was sold to Havelah Investments. In 1982 Comord Pty Ltd purchased the building and the following year $4 million was spent on refurbishment. Since 1987 the building has been leased by Custom Credit and in 1988 Suncorp Insurance bought the property.
This inter-war commercial building is seven storeys in height with a basement and a caretakers office as an attic level. It is a stone faced building on a reinforced concrete structure. The scale and form of the building and the colour of its stonework complements nearby buildings on this side of Queen Street.
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