Victoria Park Golf Clubhouse
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Former Victoria Park Golf Clubhouse, 1998
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| Location | 309 Herston Road, Herston, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°27′00″S 153°01′36″E / 27.4501°S 153.0267°ECoordinates: 27°27′00″S 153°01′36″E / 27.4501°S 153.0267°E |
| Design period | 1919 - 1930s (interwar period) |
| Built | 1931, 1939, 1948 |
| Architect | Reyburn Jameson |
| Architectural style(s) | Spanish Mission |
| Official name: Victoria Park Golf Clubhouse (former), Lone Parents Club | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 17 December 1999 |
| Reference no. | 602034 |
| Significant period | 1931,1939, 1948 (fabric) 1931-1975 (historical/social) |
| Significant components | wall/s - retaining, trees/plantings, dance floor, residential accommodation - staff quarters, steps/stairway |
 Location of Victoria Park Golf Clubhouse in Queensland
Location of Victoria Park Golf Clubhouse in Queensland
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The Victoria Park Golf Clubhouse is a heritage-listed former club house at 309 Herston Road, Herston, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Reyburn Jameson and built in 1931 and extended in 1939 and 1948. It is also known as the Pink Palace, after a nightclub which operated out of the building in the late 1970s and 1980s. The building now serves as offices for the Mental Illness Fellowship of Queensland. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 17 December 1999.
The Victoria Park Golf Clubhouse was constructed in two stages, 1931 and 1939, as the clubhouse for Brisbane's first municipal golf links, established in Victoria Park in 1930-31.
The modern game of golf originated in Scotland in the 18th century. By the late 19th century it was popular throughout Britain, and in the 1880s and 1890s, British immigrants established golf clubs throughout the British Empire.
Golf was introduced to Queensland in the 1880s by two Scots, Francis Ivory and his brother Alexander, who laid out a six-hole course on their Eidsvold cattle station, near Gayndah. Golf courses at Ravenshoe and Townsville (1893) are the first recorded Queensland courses. The Brisbane Golf Club, formed in 1890, was the first organised golf club in Queensland. It established a course at Chelmer in 1896 and subsequently relocated to Yeerongpilly in 1904. It was a private club, attracted the patronage of Lord Lamington (Governor of Queensland 1896-1901), and until 1920 was the only golf club in Brisbane. The City Golf Club Toowoomba was formed in 1896 with a nine-hole course on Drayton Road and the Ipswich Golf Club was established in 1897.
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