Queen Alexandra Home
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Building in May 2016
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| Location | 347 Old Cleveland Road, Coorparoo, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°29′38″S 153°03′40″E / 27.4939°S 153.061°ECoordinates: 27°29′38″S 153°03′40″E / 27.4939°S 153.061°E |
| Design period | 1870s - 1890s (late 19th century) |
| Built | 1886 - 1963 |
| Official name: Queen Alexandra Home, Alexandra House - College of Catering and Hospitality Services, Alexandra House - College of Tourism and Hospitality, Hatherton/ Queen Alexandra Home for Children | |
| Type | state heritage (landscape, built) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600185 |
| Significant period | 1880s, 1910s, 1920s circa (fabric) 1886-1960 (historical) 1911-1960 (social) |
| Significant components | residential accommodation - main house, wall/s - retaining, classroom/classroom block/teaching area, flagpole/flagstaff, driveway, memorial - gate/s, garden/grounds, service wing, basement / sub-floor, dormitory |
 Location of Queen Alexandra Home in Queensland
Location of Queen Alexandra Home in Queensland
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Queen Alexandra Home is a heritage-listed villa at 347 Old Cleveland Road, Coorparoo, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1886 to 1963. It is also known as Alexandra House, College of Tourism & Hospitality, Hatherton, and Queen Alexandra Home for Children. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
Hatherton, a two-storeyed brick residence was erected in 1886 near the intersection of Old Cleveland Road and Cavendish Road in Coorparoo. A wing, named Kingsbury, was added in 1919.
The design of Hatherton is attributed to the firm of John Hall and Son, and the contractor was Abraham James. Hatherton was built for Brisbane businessman Reuben Nicklin, manager of the Brisbane Office of Butler Brothers, Saddlers and Ironmongers. Prior to moving to Hatherton, Nicklin and his family lived at Langlands, also at Coorparoo, which had been built for Nicklin in the early 1880s. By the late 1880s, Coorparoo was still principally a rural area, despite several estates having been subdivided and the suburb being connected to South Brisbane by rail. The population of Coorparoo was small, and dispersed around the Old Cleveland and Cavendish Roads intersection.
Nicklin and his wife Jane Lahey drowned in February 1890, when the RMS Quetta sank in Torres Strait, en route to England. Their daughter Alice, was one of only two European women to survive the shipwreck.
Hatherton was occupied by various people including members of the Nicklin and Lahey families as well as the Hon Arthur John Carter, Member of the Queensland Legislative Council, until 1911 when the building was acquired by the Methodist Church. The church had established its first children's home, named the Queen Alexandra Home for Children, the previous year at Robgill, in Indooroopilly, donated by May Jordan McConnel.
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