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• Name: Fairy Knoll
• Built: 1901
• Style: Federation Filigree villa
• Known for: Rooftop lantern

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• Name: Garowie
• Built: 1888
• Style: Victorian Italianate mansion
• Known for: Italian marble fireplaces

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• Name: Claremont
• Built: 1857
• Style: Georgian sandstone villa
• Known for: Former premier’s residence

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• Name: Rockton
• Built: 1855
• Style: Colonial-to-Victorian estate
• Known for: Widow’s-walk tower

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• Name: Gooloowan
• Built: 1864
• Style: Georgian-Victorian villa
• Known for: Hand-operated lift

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• Name: Karragaroo
• Built: 1884
• Style: Victorian Italianate mansion
• Known for: Driveway became street

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• Name: Brynhyfryd
• Built: 1889
• Style: Victorian “castle” mansion
• Known for: Extravagant Gatsby-style parties

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• Name: Belmont
• Built: 1863
• Style: Sandstone Georgian villa
• Known for: Same year built as Ipswich Grammar

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• Name: Woodlands of Marburg
• Built: 1891
• Style: Italianate hilltop villa
• Known for: Lookout tower (50 ft)

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• Name: Elamang
• Built: 1895
• Style: Late-Victorian Queenslander
• Known for: Octagonal bay verandahs

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• Name: Almondsbury
• Built: 1883
• Style: Rustic-Gothic cottage
• Known for: Builder worked on Brynhyfryd

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• Name: Booval House
• Built: 1859
• Style: Colonial-Georgian homestead
• Known for: Suburb’s namesake

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• Name: Rhossilli
• Built: 1888
• Style: Italianate brick villa
• Known for: Award-winning restoration

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• Name: Ballachulish
• Built: 1908
• Style: Federation Queenslander
• Known for: Flying gable fretwork

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• Name: Notnel
• Built: 1863
• Style: Brick Georgian cottage
• Known for: “Lenton” spelled backwards

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• Name: Toronto
• Built: 1863
• Style: Carpenter-gothic timber home
• Known for: Its dusty pink colour

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• Name: Kyeewa
• Built: 1890
• Style: Grand colonial sandstone villa
• Known for: 3 sandstone walls, 1 timber

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• Name: Brickstone
• Built: 1864
• Style: Georgian brick villa
• Known for: Once hidden attic & prominent corner location

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• Name: Dorrington
• Built: 1891
• Style: Federation-era (Queen-Anne style) brick villa
• Known for: George B. Gill’s first brick villa within the Borough of Ipswich

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• Name: Glendalough
• Built: 1900; major extension 1911
• Style: Federation-era Queenslander Timber Villa
• Known for: Octagonal front sleeping bay with 8 windows

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• Name: William Berry Residence
• Built: 1874
• Style: Victorian Georgian brick villa
• Known for: Underground water tank and cast-iron lace verandahs

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• Name: Dougleen
• Built: 1922-1933
• Style: Arts & Crafts brick bungalow (Californian influence)
• Known for: Signature marble breezeway arch

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• Name: Franklyn Vale Homestead
• Built: Early 1870s
• Style: Single-story timber Queenslander homestead
• Known for: Intact set—schoolroom, summerhouse, meat & slab sheds

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• Name: The Chestnuts
• Built: 1885
• Style: Gothic Revival brick cottage
• Known for: Girls’ finishing school (1885-1900).

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• Name: Keiraville
• Built: 1886
• Style: Late-Victorian brick masonry villa
• Known for: Being the Minister’s house next to the church for 4 decades, 1938–1983.

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• Name: Idavine
• Built: c.1910-1913
• Style: Federation-era timber Queenslander
• Known for: Cornucopia-pattern iron lace verandah (1892 design)

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• Name: Ozanam House
• Built: c.1886
• Style: Late-Victorian timber Queenslander with verandah filigree
• Known for: St Vincent de Paul community hub since 1960

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• Name: Beau-Guest (formerly Orangefield)
• Built: c.1870
• Style: Mid-Victorian brick homestead
• Known for: Orchard history and Art Deco-style facade

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• Name: Liberty Hall – Mary Tregear Hostel
• Built: Late 1850s (c. 1857–1860)
• Style: Colonial Georgian brick townhouse
• Known for: Full brick cellar

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• Name: City View Hotel
• Built: 1907–08
• Style: Federation-era two-storey brick hotel with an octagonal tower
• Known for: George Brockwell Gill design on a triangular site beside the 1875 railway cutting

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• Name: Oaklands
• Built: 1895-97
• Style: Federation-era timber Queenslander villa
• Known for: Original and centrepiece house in the Wright Family Houses trio

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• Name: Penrhyn
• Built: c.1879
• Style: Slate-roofed brick cottage with a concave verandah roof
• Known for: verandah sitting below Limestone St. footpath

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• Name: Gwennap (St Michael’s Nursing Home)
• Built: ~1874
• Style: Late-Victorian brick homestead
• Known for: Being the entrance/reception building for Lilliput Caring.

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• Name: Merton
• Built: 1870s
• Style: Victorian-era timber Queenslander
• Known for: Original York Street timber Queenslander

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• Name: Ipswich Club House
• Built: 1915-1916
• Style: Federation-era timber villa Queenslander
• Known for: Double staircase, octagonal front porch and 63 years as the Ipswich Club

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• Name: Aberfeldy
• Built: c.1878
• Style: Victorian Filigree Queenslander
• Known for: Its two-gable frontage, topped with decorative cast-iron finials and finished with timber pendants and detailed fretwork

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• Name: Colthup
• Built: c.1880
• Style: Late Victorian colonial brick
• Known for: Concrete bathtub under the front verandah

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• Name: Bowerbank
• Built: 1914
• Style: Grand Federation Arts & Crafts Timber Villa
• Known for: Steep terraced block on Ellenborough St with sweeping views to the north

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• Name: The Duce House
• Built: 1952
• Style: English Domestic Revival
• Known for: Front yard pool, believed to be the first private pool in Ipswich

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• Name: Dumfries (formerly Coalfalls)
• Built: 1890 (or 1906, debated)
• Style: Federation-era Queenslander
• Known for: Childhood home of Sir James Blair, namesake of Blair State School

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• Name: Colton Villa
• Built: 1905
• Style: Federation-era brick Queenslander
• Known for: One of two Briggs Road homes built by bricklayer Mr Robinson

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• Name: Caloola (Macfarlane’s House)
• Built: 1887
• Style: Late-Victorian timber Queenslander
• Known for: Being the highest house on Denmark Hill

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• Name: Queens Park
• Laid Out: 1864
• Size: 26 ha (64 acres)
• Known for: Free nature centre, Nerima gardens, kids playground, cafe, Griffin Incinerator Theatre, sports clubs.

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