Coorparoo Fire Station

Coorparoo Fire Station
Coorparoo Fire Station
	The building as a residence, 2015
Location	219 Cavendish Road, Coorparoo, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Coordinates	27°29′48″S153°03′37″E / 27.4966°S 153.0602°E Coordinates: 27°29′48″S153°03′37″E / 27.4966°S 153.0602°E
Design period	1919–1930s (interwar period)
Built	1935
Architect	Atkinson & Conrad
Architectural style(s)	Georgian
Queensland Heritage Register
	Official name: Coorparoo Fire Station (former)
Type	state heritage (built)
Designated	11 June 2003
Reference no.	600569
Significant period	1930s (historical); 1930s (fabric); 1935–76 (social)
Significant components	fire station, residential accommodation – superintendent's house/quarters
	Location of Coorparoo Fire Station in Queensland Coorparoo Fire Station (Australia)

Last updated March 21, 2019

Coorparoo Fire Station is a heritage-listed former fire station at 219 Cavendish Road, Coorparoo, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Atkinson & Conrad and built in 1935. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 11 June 2003.^[1]

Fire station structure or other area set aside for storage of firefighting apparatus

A fire station is a structure or other area for storing firefighting apparatus such as fire engines and related vehicles, personal protective equipment, fire hoses and other specialized equipment. Fire stations frequently contain working and living space for the firefighters and support staff.

Cavendish Road is an arterial road in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, linking the suburbs of Coorparoo, Holland Park and Mount Gravatt East.

Coorparoo is a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) south-east of the CBD. It borders Camp Hill, Holland Park, Stones Corner, Greenslopes, East Brisbane and Norman Park.

History

From about 1931, local progression associations led by C. Beak and W. J. Smout began to lobby to have a fire station established in their area.^[2]^[3] However, the fire board did not have the funds to establish a new station until March 1935 when they borrowed £ 22,000 from the Commonwealth Bank.^[4]

The Australian pound was the currency of Australia from 1910 until 14 February 1966, when it was replaced by the Australian dollar. As with other £sd currencies, it was subdivided into 20 shillings, each of 12 pence.

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is an Australian multinational bank with businesses across New Zealand, Asia, the United States and the United Kingdom. It provides a variety of financial services including retail, business and institutional banking, funds management, superannuation, insurance, investment and broking services. The Commonwealth Bank is the largest Australian listed company on the Australian Securities Exchange as of August 2015 with brands including Bankwest, Colonial First State Investments, ASB Bank, Commonwealth Securities (CommSec) and Commonwealth Insurance (CommInsure). Commonwealth Bank is also the largest bank in the Southern Hemisphere.

The fire station was opened on Thursday 26 September 1935 by John Innes Brown, Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Logan. The Dennis turbine fire engine at the station was the most modern available. The station served the Coorparoo, Camp Hill and Holland Park areas.^[3]

John Innes Brown was a blacksmith and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Logan is an electoral district in southern Queensland, Australia.

Camp Hill is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Prior to 2003, the fire station was decommissioned, similar to many other of the older fire stations which were too small to handle the larger fire engines.^[1]^[5]

Heritage listing

The former Coorparoo Fire Station was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 11 June 2003 having satisfied the following criteria.^[1]

The Queensland Heritage Register is a heritage register, a statutory list of places in Queensland, Australia that are protected by Queensland legislation, the Queensland Heritage Act 1992. The register is maintained by the Queensland Heritage Council.

The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history.

The former Coorparoo Fire Station is an important example of the upgrading of fire stations undertaken in Brisbane suburbs by the Queensland Government through the Metropolitan Fire Board during the 1930s. The building was in continuous use as a fire station from 1935 to 1976 and is important as the first of and model for the group of fire stations designed and constructed during this upgrade.^[1]

The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.

The former Coorparoo Fire Station is an important example of the architecture and planning of Brisbane suburban fire stations of the 1930s incorporating offices and engine room to the ground floor and a residence to the first floor. The interiors in both the operational and domestic areas reflect the operation of 1930s fire stations and are substantially intact.^[1]

The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.

The former Coorparoo Fire Station has aesthetic and architectural significance as a former modest, functional civic building. Robust and austere, with its simple horizontal banding and use of readily available materials, it is easily identified in the streetscape. A landmark on Cavendish Road, the former fire station is sympathetic in scale, form and materials to its residential setting.^[1]

The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland's history.

The former Coorparoo Fire Station is a fine example of the work of the architectural firm Atkinson and Conrad. Atkinson, through the firms he was associated with, sustained a long association with the Fire Services in Brisbane commencing in 1890 with his design for the new headquarters for the Brisbane Fire Brigade. His architectural practices were responsible for many of the fire stations throughout Brisbane. It is a proto-Modern building and elements evident in the design may have been influential in popularising their use.^[1]

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References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Coorparoo Fire Station (former) (entry 600569)". Queensland Heritage Register . Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
↑ "LETTERS TO THE EDITOR". The Brisbane Courier . National Library of Australia. 26 December 1931. p. 15. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
1 2 "NEW COORPAROO FIRE STATION OPENED". The Courier-Mail . Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 27 September 1935. p. 15. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
↑ "NEW FIRE STATION". Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser . Qld.: National Library of Australia. 27 March 1935. p. 7. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
↑ "Fire Brigade 2". Your Brisbane:Past and Present. 22 February 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2014.

Attribution

This Wikipedia article was originally based on "The Queensland heritage register" published by the State of Queensland under CC-BY 3.0 AU licence (accessed on 7 July 2014, archived on 8 October 2014). The geo-coordinates were originally computed from the "Queensland heritage register boundaries" published by the State of Queensland under CC-BY 3.0 AU licence (accessed on 5 September 2014, archived on 15 October 2014).

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[qhr-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Coorparoo Fire Station (former) (entry 600569)". Queensland Heritage Register . Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 1 August 2014.

[2] "LETTERS TO THE EDITOR". The Brisbane Courier . National Library of Australia. 26 December 1931. p. 15. Retrieved 17 December 2014.

[opening-3] 1 2 "NEW COORPAROO FIRE STATION OPENED". The Courier-Mail . Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 27 September 1935. p. 15. Retrieved 17 December 2014.

[4] "NEW FIRE STATION". Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser . Qld.: National Library of Australia. 27 March 1935. p. 7. Retrieved 17 December 2014.

[5] "Fire Brigade 2". Your Brisbane:Past and Present. 22 February 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2014.