TC Beirne Department Store
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Former TC Beirne Department Store, 2000
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| Location | 28 Duncan Street, Fortitude Valley, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°27′31″S 153°02′02″E / 27.4585°S 153.034°ECoordinates: 27°27′31″S 153°02′02″E / 27.4585°S 153.034°E |
| Design period | 1900 - 1914 (early 20th century) |
| Built | 1902 - 1938 |
| Built for | Thomas Charles Beirne |
| Architect | Robin Dods, Hennessey & Hennessey |
| Official name: TC Beirne Complex and Fortuneland Centre | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 12 December 2003 |
| Reference no. | 601395 |
| Significant period | 1900s-1930s (fabric) 1902-1956 (historical ownership by TC Beirne) |
| Significant components | tower |
 Location of TC Beirne Department Store in Queensland
Location of TC Beirne Department Store in Queensland
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The TC Beirne Department Store is a heritage-listed former department store at 28 Duncan Street, Fortitude Valley, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Robin Dods and built in 1902. Further extensions were made through to 1938 to the designs of Dods and Hennessey & Hennessey. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 12 December 2003.
The TC Beirne Department Store was constructed for Thomas Charles Beirne in 1902 to the design of Robin Dods. The warehouse portion of the building was extended in 1906, and further extensions were made to the structure in 1910 and 1913, also to the design of Dods. By c. 1931, architects Hennessey & Hennessey had undertaken extensive additions, and in 1938 an extra 30,000 square feet of floor space was added. In 1956 the building was sold to David Jones, and has changed ownership several times since. Geoffrey Pie undertook alterations in 1974.
Thomas Charles Beirne was born in 1860 in Ballymacurly, Ireland, the son of farmers. He was apprenticed to a draper at the age of fourteen, and in 1884 emigrated to Melbourne where he worked as a draper's assistant and later joint manager for Eyre and Shephard and then Foy and Gibson. Less than two years later a former employer in Ireland, Michael Piggott, invited Beirne to enter into a partnership and the firm of Piggott & Beirne was established in Stanley Street, South Brisbane. By 1891 the partnership had dissolved and TC Beirne took his capital of £1200 and opened his own store in Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley, in premises owned by the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane. The shop employed six staff and had a frontage of twenty feet and a depth of fifty feet. TC Beirne had married Ann Kavanagh in 1887, and the Beirne family lived in quarters above the shop.
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