The Mansions, Brisbane
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Margaret Street façade of the Mansions.
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| Location | 40 George Street, Brisbane City, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°28′28″S 153°01′36″E / 27.4744°S 153.0266°ECoordinates: 27°28′28″S 153°01′36″E / 27.4744°S 153.0266°E |
| Design period | 1870s - 1890s (late 19th century) |
| Built | 1889 |
| Architect | G.H.M. Addison |
| Architectural style(s) | Victorian architecture |
| Official name: The Mansions | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 21 August 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600119 |
| Significant period | 1880s onwards |
| Significant components | residential accommodation - terrace house/terrace, fence/wall - perimeter |
| Builders | RE Burton |
 Location of The Mansions, Brisbane in Queensland
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The Mansions is a heritage-listed row of six terrace houses at 40 George Street (corner of Margaret Street), Brisbane City, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by G.H.M. Addison and built in 1889 by RE Burton. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 August 1992.
The architectural style is Victorian with Italianate influences.
The Mansions, built in 1889 and located near Parliament House on the George Street ridge at the corner of Margaret Street, was designed by architect George Henry Male Addison as six attached elite masonry houses. Constructed by RE Burton for £11,700, it was an investment for three Queensland politicians - Boyd Dunlop Morehead, then Premier; William Pattison, Treasurer; and John Stevenson, member for Clermont - during a decade of enormous population growth and land development in Brisbane.
Since the 1820s, the north bank and adjacent ridgeline of the Brisbane River, now containing William and George Streets, has always featured a concentration of government and associated activities and uses. Over the period of the Moreton Bay penal settlement, buildings constructed along this ridgeline, were utilised by government officials for "accommodation, administration and control". When the settlement was closed in 1842, the remnant penal infrastructure was used by surveyors as a basis for the layout for the new town of Brisbane. Set at right angles to the river, the prisoner's barracks determined Queen Street, while the line of buildings along the ridge determined William Street. Streets surveyed parallel to these streets including George Street, formed Brisbane's rectangular grid.
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