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Queen Street, Brisbane

December 27, 2022

Coordinates: 27°28′4.74″S 153°1′38.54″E / 27.4679833°S 153.0273722°E / -27.4679833; 153.0273722

Queen Street is the main street of Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, Australia. It is named after Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

Queen Street
LocationBrisbane central business district
West endVictoria Bridge, North Quay
Major
junctions		George Street, Albert Street, Edward Street, Creek Street, Adelaide Street
East endAnn Street
Other
StatusPartially pedestrianised

The western part of the street is covered by a new plaza at the base of Brisbane Square and underneath part of the western half is the Queen Street bus station.

Queen Street is heavily built up with arcades, shops, hotels, offices and apartment high-rises such as MacArthur Central, Brisbane Square, Central Plaza, Aurora Tower, Treasury Casino, Wintergarden, Broadway on the Mall, The Myer Centre and QueensPlaza. Queen Street is also the location of Brisbane's General Post Office.

Geography

 
Map of Brisbane CBD

Queen Street is the city's central road, partly covered by a pedestrian mall called the Queen Street Mall. It ends at the Victoria Bridge and is bounded by two of the Brisbane River's central reaches. Uptown at the top of the mall is George Street.

The next street parallel to the south is Elizabeth Street, while Adelaide Street is the next parallel street to the north.

History

 
Queen Street in 1889
 
Manor Apartments
 
Queen Street, Brisbane, ca. 1935
 
Queen Street, Brisbane, with decorations for the royal visit in 1954

Before 1842 and free settlement, Queen Street was originally a track leading from the main section of the early Moreton Bay Penal Colony, crossing a stream known as Wheat Creek with a deviation going up to the Windmill. In early 1840, a surveyor named Dixon drew up a survey for the central Brisbane streets with all streets 66 feet (20 metres) wide. Changes were then made to this plan with square blocks flattened into a rectangular grid with streets becoming 1.4 chains (27 metres). On Governor Gipps' visit to Brisbane Town in March 1842, Gipps remarked that Brisbane Town was "simply an ordinary provincial settlement", which would need no grand avenues. As a result, Gipps moved the planned width of Queen Street, along with other streets, back to 66 feet (20 metres), arguing that this change would mean that buildings could be kept out of the sun.

Later, there was compromise with the main street that would be known as Queen Street, with the western boundary's width changed to 1.2 chains (24 metres).[1]

The first sitting of Legislative Assembly of Queensland in May 1860 occurred in the old converted convict barracks on Queen Street.[2]

In 1864, there were two significant fires along the street.[3] The September 1864 fire started in the Little Wonder store on Edward Street[4] which destroyed 14 shops in Queen Street. This event later became known as Bulcock's Fire. On 1 December 1864, the Great Fire of Brisbane started within the cellar of a Queen Street drapery store which burnt down buildings bordering Queen Street, as well as Albert Street, Edward Street, George Street and Elizabeth Street.[5] Brisbane Courier described the fire as "the whole of the business premises and private residences...were, in a couple of hours, reduced to a heap of ruins".[6]

On 9 December 1882, a demonstration of electricity was conducted with eight arc lights along Queen Street.[7] Power was supplied by a 10 hp generator driven by a small engine in a foundry in Adelaide Street. This was Australia's first recorded use of electricity for public purposes.[7]

In 1885, Poul C. Poulsen opened his photographic studio at 7 Queen Street.[8]

In 1902, part of Queen Street was not paved or sealed although stormwater drainage was well maintained.[9]

Queen Street is historically significant as it contains MacArthur Central, the building in which the American General Douglas MacArthur had his South West Pacific headquarters (from July 1942 to November 1944) during World War II and directed the Allied Forces campaign.[10][11] The former AMP building was later renamed MacArthur Central as a tribute to General MacArthur.

Tram services along Queen Street were converted to buses on 14 April 1969.[12]

In 1981, the part of the street between Albert Street and Edward Street was closed to traffic.[13] This section was opened as the Queen Street Mall in 1982, in time for the Commonwealth Games.[14] Later, the section between Albert Street and George Street was converted into an extension of the pedestrian mall, timed to coincide with Brisbane's Expo '88.[14]

A number of buildings were demolished on Queen Street in the 1980s, including Her Majesty's Theatre, the Wintergarden cinema and the Odeon cinema as the mall development proceeded.

Heritage listings

There are many heritage-listed buildings in Queen Street, including:

Major intersections

See also

References

  1. ^ Queensland Place Histories: Queen Street, Brisbane
  2. ^ Armstrong, Lyn (1997), "'A somewhat rash experiment':Queensland Parliament as a microcosm of society", in Shaw, Barry (ed.), Brisbane:Corridors of Power, Papers, vol. 15, Brisbane: Brisbane History Group Inc, p. 54, ISBN 0-9586469-1-0
  3. ^ Laverty, John (2009). The Making of a Metropolis: Brisbane 1823–1925. Salisbury, Queensland: Boolarong Press. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-9751793-5-2.
  4. ^ "Fire in Edward-Sreet". The Brisbane Courier. National Library of Australia. 5 September 1864. p. 2. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
  5. ^ Queensland State Archives | 1860 – Fiery beginnings, Queensland State Archives.
  6. ^ The Great Fire of Brisbane, 1864
  7. ^ a b Dunn, Col (1985). The History of Electricity in Queensland. Bundaberg: Col Dunn. p. 21. ISBN 0-9589229-0-X.
  8. ^   This Wikipedia article incorporates CC-BY-4.0 licensed text from: "Early Queensland photography - Poulsen Studios". Blog. State Library of Queensland. 15 September 2015. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
  9. ^ Cole, John R. (1984). Shaping a city. Albion, Queensland: William Brooks Queensland. p. 32. ISBN 0-85568-619-7.
  10. ^ General Headquarters (GHQ), South West Pacific Area, Queen Street, Brisbane
  11. ^ MacArthur's War Chambers, Brisbane
  12. ^ Cole, John R. (1984). Shaping a city. Albion, Queensland: William Brooks Queensland. p. 270. ISBN 0-85568-619-7.
  13. ^ "'Flashback' – Queen St Closure". BTQ7 News. Archived from the original on 14 December 2021.
  14. ^ a b "Queen Street Mall's 30-year evolution". Brisbanetimes.com.au. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
  15. ^ "Treasury Building (entry 600143)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  16. ^ "Westpac Bank Building (entry 600154)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  17. ^ "ANZ Bank (entry 600157)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  18. ^ "62 Queen Street (entry 600160)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  19. ^ "City International Duty Free (entry 600161)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  20. ^ "Myer Store (former) [incorporating Miss Brisbane 600136] (entry 600162)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  21. ^ "Building - Miss Brisbane [incorporated in Myer Store (former) see 600162] (entry 600136)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  22. ^ "Gardams (entry 600137)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  23. ^ "Hardy Brothers (entry 600138)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  24. ^ "Sportsgirl (entry 600139)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  25. ^ "Brisbane Arcade (entry 600058)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  26. ^ "Regent Building (entry 600140)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  27. ^ "National Australia Bank (entry 600141)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  28. ^ "David Jones (entry 600142)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  29. ^ "MacArthur Chambers (entry 600147)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  30. ^ "Sir William Glasgow Memorial (entry 602439)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  31. ^ "Newspaper House (entry 600150)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  32. ^ "Custom Credit House (entry 600151)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  33. ^ "National Australia Bank (entry 600153)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  34. ^ "First World War Honour Board (entry 600152)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  35. ^ "Former Queensland Country Life Building facade (entry 600158)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  36. ^ "Brisbane Customs House (former) (entry 600156)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  37. ^ "Petrie Bight Retaining Wall (entry 600159)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  38. ^ "Orient Hotel (entry 602122)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.

External links

  •   Media related to Queen Street, Brisbane at Wikimedia Commons

December 27, 2022
queen, street, brisbane, coordinates, 4679833, 0273722, 4679833, 0273722, queen, street, main, street, brisbane, capital, queensland, australia, named, after, queen, victoria, united, kingdom, queen, streetview, from, queen, street, malllocationbrisbane, centr. Coordinates 27 28 4 74 S 153 1 38 54 E 27 4679833 S 153 0273722 E 27 4679833 153 0273722 Queen Street is the main street of Brisbane the capital of Queensland Australia It is named after Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom Queen StreetView from Queen Street MallLocationBrisbane central business districtWest endVictoria Bridge North QuayMajorjunctionsGeorge Street Albert Street Edward Street Creek Street Adelaide StreetEast endAnn StreetOtherStatusPartially pedestrianisedThe western part of the street is covered by a new plaza at the base of Brisbane Square and underneath part of the western half is the Queen Street bus station Queen Street is heavily built up with arcades shops hotels offices and apartment high rises such as MacArthur Central Brisbane Square Central Plaza Aurora Tower Treasury Casino Wintergarden Broadway on the Mall The Myer Centre and QueensPlaza Queen Street is also the location of Brisbane s General Post Office Contents 1 Geography 2 History 3 Heritage listings 4 Major intersections 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksGeography Edit Map of Brisbane CBD Queen Street is the city s central road partly covered by a pedestrian mall called the Queen Street Mall It ends at the Victoria Bridge and is bounded by two of the Brisbane River s central reaches Uptown at the top of the mall is George Street The next street parallel to the south is Elizabeth Street while Adelaide Street is the next parallel street to the north History Edit Great fire of Brisbane Queen Street in 1889 Manor Apartments Queen Street Brisbane ca 1935 Queen Street Brisbane with decorations for the royal visit in 1954 Before 1842 and free settlement Queen Street was originally a track leading from the main section of the early Moreton Bay Penal Colony crossing a stream known as Wheat Creek with a deviation going up to the Windmill In early 1840 a surveyor named Dixon drew up a survey for the central Brisbane streets with all streets 66 feet 20 metres wide Changes were then made to this plan with square blocks flattened into a rectangular grid with streets becoming 1 4 chains 27 metres On Governor Gipps visit to Brisbane Town in March 1842 Gipps remarked that Brisbane Town was simply an ordinary provincial settlement which would need no grand avenues As a result Gipps moved the planned width of Queen Street along with other streets back to 66 feet 20 metres arguing that this change would mean that buildings could be kept out of the sun Later there was compromise with the main street that would be known as Queen Street with the western boundary s width changed to 1 2 chains 24 metres 1 The first sitting of Legislative Assembly of Queensland in May 1860 occurred in the old converted convict barracks on Queen Street 2 In 1864 there were two significant fires along the street 3 The September 1864 fire started in the Little Wonder store on Edward Street 4 which destroyed 14 shops in Queen Street This event later became known as Bulcock s Fire On 1 December 1864 the Great Fire of Brisbane started within the cellar of a Queen Street drapery store which burnt down buildings bordering Queen Street as well as Albert Street Edward Street George Street and Elizabeth Street 5 Brisbane Courier described the fire as the whole of the business premises and private residences were in a couple of hours reduced to a heap of ruins 6 On 9 December 1882 a demonstration of electricity was conducted with eight arc lights along Queen Street 7 Power was supplied by a 10 hp generator driven by a small engine in a foundry in Adelaide Street This was Australia s first recorded use of electricity for public purposes 7 In 1885 Poul C Poulsen opened his photographic studio at 7 Queen Street 8 In 1902 part of Queen Street was not paved or sealed although stormwater drainage was well maintained 9 Queen Street is historically significant as it contains MacArthur Central the building in which the American General Douglas MacArthur had his South West Pacific headquarters from July 1942 to November 1944 during World War II and directed the Allied Forces campaign 10 11 The former AMP building was later renamed MacArthur Central as a tribute to General MacArthur Tram services along Queen Street were converted to buses on 14 April 1969 12 In 1981 the part of the street between Albert Street and Edward Street was closed to traffic 13 This section was opened as the Queen Street Mall in 1982 in time for the Commonwealth Games 14 Later the section between Albert Street and George Street was converted into an extension of the pedestrian mall timed to coincide with Brisbane s Expo 88 14 A number of buildings were demolished on Queen Street in the 1980s including Her Majesty s Theatre the Wintergarden cinema and the Odeon cinema as the mall development proceeded Heritage listings EditThere are many heritage listed buildings in Queen Street including 21 Queen Street Treasury Building 15 33 Queen Street Bank of New South Wales Building 16 43 Queen Street Trustees Chambers 17 62 Queen Street Colonial Mutual Chambers 18 86 Queen Street Palings Building also known as City International Duty Free 19 110 Queen Street Allan and Stark Building also known as former Myer Store 20 21 114 Queen Street Gardams Building 22 116 Queen Street Hardy Brothers Building 23 120 Queen Street Edwards and Chapman Building 24 160 Queen Street Brisbane Arcade 25 167 Queen Street Regent Theatre 26 180 Queen Street National Australia Bank 180 Queen Street 27 196 Queen Street Finney Isles amp Co Building 28 229 Queen Street MacArthur Chambers 29 270 Queen Street Sir William Glasgow Memorial 30 289 Queen Street Newspaper House now the Manor Apartment Hotel 31 299 Queen Street National Mutual Life Building 32 308 Queen Street National Australia Bank 308 Queen Street 33 and its First World War Honour Board 34 separate listings 424 426 Queen Street Queensland Country Life Building facade 35 427 Queen Street former Brisbane Customs House 36 443 501 Queen Street Petrie Bight Retaining Wall 37 560 Queen Street Orient Hotel 38 Major intersections EditThis article contains a bulleted list or table of intersections which should be presented in a properly formatted junction table Please consult this guideline for information on how to create one Please improve this article if you can December 2021 North Quay William Street George Street Albert Street Edward Street Creek Street Wharf Street Eagle Street Adelaide Street Ann StreetSee also Edit Australian Roads portal Road transport in BrisbaneReferences Edit Queensland Place Histories Queen Street Brisbane Armstrong Lyn 1997 A somewhat rash experiment Queensland Parliament as a microcosm of society in Shaw Barry ed Brisbane Corridors of Power Papers vol 15 Brisbane Brisbane History Group Inc p 54 ISBN 0 9586469 1 0 Laverty John 2009 The Making of a Metropolis Brisbane 1823 1925 Salisbury Queensland Boolarong Press p 56 ISBN 978 0 9751793 5 2 Fire in Edward Sreet The Brisbane Courier National Library of Australia 5 September 1864 p 2 Retrieved 24 September 2012 Queensland State Archives 1860 Fiery beginnings Queensland State Archives The Great Fire of Brisbane 1864 a b Dunn Col 1985 The History of Electricity in Queensland Bundaberg Col Dunn p 21 ISBN 0 9589229 0 X This Wikipedia article incorporates CC BY 4 0 licensed text from Early Queensland photography Poulsen Studios Blog State Library of Queensland 15 September 2015 Retrieved 25 May 2022 Cole John R 1984 Shaping a city Albion Queensland William Brooks Queensland p 32 ISBN 0 85568 619 7 General Headquarters GHQ South West Pacific Area Queen Street Brisbane MacArthur s War Chambers Brisbane Cole John R 1984 Shaping a city Albion Queensland William Brooks Queensland p 270 ISBN 0 85568 619 7 Flashback Queen St Closure BTQ7 News Archived from the original on 14 December 2021 a b Queen Street Mall s 30 year evolution Brisbanetimes com au Retrieved 25 May 2012 Treasury Building entry 600143 Queensland Heritage Register Queensland Heritage Council Retrieved 13 July 2015 Westpac Bank Building entry 600154 Queensland Heritage Register Queensland Heritage Council Retrieved 13 July 2015 ANZ Bank entry 600157 Queensland Heritage Register Queensland Heritage Council Retrieved 13 July 2015 62 Queen Street entry 600160 Queensland Heritage Register Queensland Heritage Council Retrieved 13 July 2015 City International Duty Free entry 600161 Queensland Heritage Register Queensland Heritage Council Retrieved 13 July 2015 Myer Store former incorporating Miss Brisbane 600136 entry 600162 Queensland Heritage Register Queensland Heritage Council Retrieved 13 July 2015 Building Miss Brisbane incorporated in Myer Store former see 600162 entry 600136 Queensland Heritage Register Queensland Heritage Council Retrieved 13 July 2015 Gardams entry 600137 Queensland Heritage Register Queensland Heritage Council Retrieved 13 July 2015 Hardy Brothers entry 600138 Queensland Heritage Register Queensland Heritage Council Retrieved 13 July 2015 Sportsgirl entry 600139 Queensland Heritage Register Queensland Heritage Council Retrieved 13 July 2015 Brisbane Arcade entry 600058 Queensland Heritage Register Queensland Heritage Council Retrieved 13 July 2015 Regent Building entry 600140 Queensland Heritage Register Queensland Heritage Council Retrieved 13 July 2015 National Australia Bank entry 600141 Queensland Heritage Register Queensland Heritage Council Retrieved 13 July 2015 David Jones entry 600142 Queensland Heritage Register Queensland Heritage Council Retrieved 13 July 2015 MacArthur Chambers entry 600147 Queensland Heritage Register Queensland Heritage Council Retrieved 13 July 2015 Sir William Glasgow Memorial entry 602439 Queensland Heritage Register Queensland Heritage Council Retrieved 13 July 2015 Newspaper House entry 600150 Queensland Heritage Register Queensland Heritage Council Retrieved 13 July 2015 Custom Credit House entry 600151 Queensland Heritage Register Queensland Heritage Council Retrieved 13 July 2015 National Australia Bank entry 600153 Queensland Heritage Register Queensland Heritage Council Retrieved 13 July 2015 First World War Honour Board entry 600152 Queensland Heritage Register Queensland Heritage Council Retrieved 13 July 2015 Former Queensland Country Life Building facade entry 600158 Queensland Heritage Register Queensland Heritage Council Retrieved 13 July 2015 Brisbane Customs House former entry 600156 Queensland Heritage Register Queensland Heritage Council Retrieved 13 July 2015 Petrie Bight Retaining Wall entry 600159 Queensland Heritage Register Queensland Heritage Council Retrieved 13 July 2015 Orient Hotel entry 602122 Queensland Heritage Register Queensland Heritage Council Retrieved 13 July 2015 External links Edit Media related to Queen Street Brisbane at Wikimedia Commons Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Queen Street Brisbane amp oldid 1089740695, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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