Schmidt Farmhouse
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Building in 2016
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| Location | 3 Worongary Road, Worongary, City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 28°03′42″S 153°21′14″E / 28.0616°S 153.354°ECoordinates: 28°03′42″S 153°21′14″E / 28.0616°S 153.354°E |
| Design period | 1870s - 1890s (late 19th century) |
| Built | 1880s - c. 1910 |
| Official name: Schmidt Farmhouse & Outbuildings (former) | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 8 April 1997 |
| Reference no. | 601889 |
| Significant period | 1880s circa-c. 1910 (fabric) 1880s-1930s (historical) |
| Significant components | farmhouse, dairy/creamery, barn, kitchen/kitchen house |
 Location of Schmidt Farmhouse in Queensland
Location of Schmidt Farmhouse in Queensland
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Schmidt Farmhouse & Outbuildings is a heritage-listed homestead at 3 Worongary Road, Worongary, City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1880s to c. 1910. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 8 April 1997.
This farmhouse and outbuildings were constructed in the late 19th/early 20th centuries on land which in the 1850s was part of the Murry Jerry pastoral run, leased by William Duckett White of Beaudesert. The site was subsequently included in the 200 acres taken up by WD White as a pre-emptive selection in 1869, but the present buildings and structures appear to date to a later period, when the land was used for agricultural purposes. It was occupied by the Schmidt-Kurth family, Worongary dairy farmers, from c. 1901 to c. 1986.
Murry Jerry, a 25 square mile cattle run based around the present town of Mudgeeraba, was taken up by Alfred Compigne in 1852 and transferred to WD White in September 1853. Following the introduction of the Crown Lands Alienation Act of 1868, designed to open the large pastoral holdings of southern Queensland to agriculture and closer settlement, Murry Jerry was opened for general selection in April 1869. Initially timber getters took up the land, but were soon joined by farmers growing corn or maize, and later establishing dairies. Timber remained an important industry, especially after the establishment of the first saw mills in the Mudgeeraba area by the mid-1880s. Under the conditions of the 1868 Land Act, WD White applied in December 1868 for a pre-emptive selection of 200 acres of the Murry Jerry run (portion 7A), on the southern side of Worongary Creek, to commence at a marked tree on the right (southern) bank of the creek about 250 yards northwest from Worongary Hut. White's selection application made reference to improvements including a stockman's hut and a store/dairy. When the block was being surveyed early in 1869, surveyor GL Pratten noted a hut in the vicinity of the present farmhouse and outbuildings. No connection has been established between the huts (probably of slab construction) referred to in 1868/69 and the present structures.
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