Victoria Flats
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Victoria Flats, 2008
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| Location | 369 Gregory Terrace, Spring Hill, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°27′22″S 153°01′36″E / 27.456°S 153.0267°ECoordinates: 27°27′22″S 153°01′36″E / 27.456°S 153.0267°E |
| Design period | 1919 - 1930s (interwar period) |
| Built | c. 1922 |
| Built for | Fanny Kilroe |
| Architect | Thomas Blair Moncrieff Wightman |
| Official name: Victoria Flats, Kilroe's Flats, Morella, Carinyah, Lumtah and Neerim | |
| Type | state heritage (built, landscape) |
| Designated | 30 March 2001 |
| Reference no. | 601888 |
| Significant period | 1920s (fabric, historical) |
| Significant components | garage, views from, garden/grounds, residential accommodation - flat/s, lead light/s, trees/plantings, gate - entrance, fence/wall - perimeter, basement / sub-floor, furniture/fittings |
| Builders | Cheesman & Bull |
 Location of Victoria Flats in Queensland
Location of Victoria Flats in Queensland
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Victoria Flats is a heritage-listed apartment block at 369 Gregory Terrace, Spring Hill, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by architect Thomas Blair Moncrieff Wightman and built c. 1922 by Cheesman & Bull. It is also known as Kilroe's Flats and Morella, Carinyah, Lumtah and Neerim. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 30 March 2001.
Victoria Flats are understood to have been known initially as Kilroe's Flats, erected c. 1923 for Mrs Fanny (Frances) Kilroe. Designed by influential Brisbane architect Thomas Blair Moncrieff Wightman, they were amongst the first purpose-designed flats constructed in Brisbane.
This part of Spring Hill had been surveyed into 2 acre suburban allotments in 1860. Allotment 253, which ran between Gregory Terrace (which at the time formed the town boundary) and Water Street, and included the site of the later flats, was purchased in May 1860 by William Gray of Brisbane for the sum of £62. In 1863 Gray subdivided the land into 12 smaller residential subdivisions and William (later Kinross) Street. Most of the blocks lower down the hill in Spring Hollow sold quickly, but Gray retained the blocks fronting Gregory Terrace (subs 1-3 of allotment 253 -1 rood 37.6 perches). This land remained vacant until Frances Kilroe, wife of Joseph Kilroe, acquired title in September 1918. The Kilroes erected a residence, Mirrunya, on subdivision 2, and were listed as resident there in the 1919–20 Post Office Directory. Joseph Kilroe was associated with the drapery and haberdashery firm of Finney Isles & Co., and had married Fanny Elliott in Brisbane in 1895.
In 1922, Mrs Kilroe made application to the Brisbane Municipal Council to erect a block of flats on Gregory Terrace, with the plans approved in November. The architect was listed as T.B.M. Wightman, and the contractors as Cheesman & Bull of Charlotte Street. The flats were erected on subdivision 1 of allotment 253, adjacent to Mirrunya, with frontages to Gregory Terrace and Kinross Street. Plans published in the Architectural and Building Journal of Queensland in June 1923 show a two-storeyed block of four flats (2 on each level), each with separate entrance, front verandah, vestibule, living room, dining room, kitchen, 2 bedrooms, rear sleeping verandah, bathroom, laundry and toilet. Details of the street fencing were also included. The flats were completed by mid-1924, and were known initially as Kilroe's Flats. Each of the four flats also had an individual name: Morella, Carinyah, Lumtah and Neerim. The name Victoria Flats may be a later descriptor.
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