Rosemount Hospital
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Building in 2015
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| Location | 189 Lutwyche Road, Windsor, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°26′18″S 153°01′56″E / 27.4383°S 153.0323°ECoordinates: 27°26′18″S 153°01′56″E / 27.4383°S 153.0323°E |
| Design period | 1840s–1860s (mid-19th century) |
| Built | 1850s–1940s |
| Official name: Rosemount Hospital, Rosemount, Rosemount Military Hospital, Rosemount Repatriation General Hospital | |
| Type | state heritage (built, landscape) |
| Designated | 24 September 1999 |
| Reference no. | 602145 |
| Significant period | 1880s-1940s (fabric, historical) 1910s- (social) |
| Significant components | pathway/walkway, kitchen/kitchen house, wall/s – retaining, morgue, residential accommodation – main house, residential accommodation – nurses' quarters, theatre – operating, pavilion, ward – block, toilet block/earth closet/water closet, garden/grounds, residential accommodation – doctor's house/quarters, hut/shack, trees/plantings, ward – open air, residential accommodation – matron's house/quarters |
 Location of Rosemount Hospital in Queensland
Location of Rosemount Hospital in Queensland
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Rosemount Hospital is a heritage-listed hospital at 189 Lutwyche Road, Windsor, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1850s to 1940s. It is also known as Rosemount, Rosemount Military Hospital, and Rosemount Repatriation General Hospital. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 24 September 1999.
The former residence of Rosemount and its grounds on Lutwyche Road at Windsor have served several different functions over more than a century. Originally a home to several notable Brisbane identities, the site was transformed into a military hospital during World War I and has also served as a repatriation hospital, psychiatric facility and as a centre for rehabilitation.
Allotment 13 on which the original Rosemount residence was built was granted to Charles Windmell in March 1855. Daniel Rowntree Somerset purchased this allotment (and allotments 11 and 12) in August 1855 and built a lofty house of stone containing drawing room, dining room, four bedrooms and hall with marble chimney pieces, enriched cornices and centres which he offered for sale in 1858-59. The property on 77 acres, also included a detached kitchen built of stone containing a pantry store room and two servant's rooms; a coach house and stable built of hardwood slabs and an acre of garden well stocked with flowers, shrubs and fruit trees. The property was first leased and then purchased in July 1865 by Maurice Charles O'Connell. O'Connell and his wife Eliza Emmaline came to Brisbane in 1860 after a six-year term as Government Resident at Port Curtis (now Gladstone). He was a grandson of Governor William Bligh, and was very prominent in the affairs of the colony of New South Wales. He was a founding member of the Queensland Legislative Council and its president until 1879. A highly respected and involved public figure, O'Connell was appointed Administrator of the Colony in the absence of the Governor on four occasions. A locality in Windsor was named O'Connelltown in his family's honour and Le Geyt Street was named after Lady O'Connell's maiden name.
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