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Application form Heritage

Entry of a place in the Queensland Heritage Register

Use this form to apply to have a place considered for entry in the Queensland Heritage Register under the Queensland Heritage Act 1992.

Before completing this application form:

read the Application Guide: Entering a State Heritage Place in the Queensland Heritage Register

available at www.qld.gov.au/environment/land/heritage/

call 13 QGOV (13 74 68) and discuss this application with the Applications Co-ordinator, Heritage Branch

1. Applicant details

APPLICANT NAME/S

Jonathan Fisher TITLE

Mr

ORGANISATION NAME (if applicable)

National Trust of Australia (Queensland)

POSTAL ADDRESS

19/25 Mary Street, Brisbane POSTCODE

4000

EMAIL ADDRESS

[email protected]

TELEPHONE (business hours)

07 3223 6666

MOBILE

TELEPHONE (after hours) EMAIL

2. Applicant consent

Ticking YES in the box below means you give consent to the department to publicly disclose your name with this application. At no time (whether you tick YES or NO) will your personal contact details be made public during processing and assessment of this application. The department removes contact details (i.e. address, email and telephone numbers) from all copies of the application except those provided to the Queensland Heritage Council.

Applicant consents to personal information being released Yes ☒ No ☐

APPLICANT’S SIGNATURE

Received 16 April 2019

http://www.qld.gov.au/environment/land/heritage/

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PRINT APPLICANT’S NAME

Jonathan Fisher

DATE SIGNED

16/04/2019

3. Place details

NAME OF PLACE AND / OR FORMER NAME

Harris House

STREET ADDRESS

1 Clifford Street, Toowoomba

LOT/S ON PLAN/S

1/SP102795 and Margaret Street road reserve (part of) LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA/S

Toowoomba Regional Council

GPS COORDINATES (IF KNOWN)

-27.560392, 151.947136

4. Consultation with the owner of the place

Do you own the place that is the subject of this application? Yes ☒ No ☐

If you are not the owner of this place, have you consulted with the owner? Yes ☐ No ☐

5. History of the place

HISTORICAL SUMMARY

Toowoomba suburban allotment no. 20 was purchased by William Horton, the proprietor of the Royal Bull's Head Inn at Drayton, in 1852. Allotment 20 consisted of 34 acres (13.7593ha) and was one of a number of allotments Horton had purchased from 1848 in the newly subdivided land to the north of Drayton known as 'The Swamp', later Toowoomba. Four years after the death of Horton in 1864, the majority of suburban allotment 20 was transferred to James Taylor (1820-1895), the MLA for the Western Downs and later the mayor of Toowoomba. Like Horton, James Taylor, a pastoralist, land speculator and politician, is known as one of the founding fathers of Toowoomba. The land remained with members of the Taylor family, or with their Trustees, until an area of 1 rood 39.6 perches (2,013 square metres) at the corner of Margaret and Clifford Streets was transferred in 1900 to John Hugh Munro, a partner in the firm Alexander and Munro, a drapery business which operated in Toowoomba from 1871.

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Construction of a residence on the 2,013 square metres of land overlooking Toowoomba from the west did not commence until after it was purchased by building contractor Montague Ivory c1909. Ivory was also the owner of the block of land that comprised 3 Clifford Street and it is thought that the residence he constructed on this

1 The drapery business was purchased by Brisbane firm Allan and Stark in 1898.

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adjacent site, similar in design, was constructed during 1910, and that 1 Clifford Street was constructed in 1911.

2 While 3 Clifford Street was occupied in its early years by tenants Charles and Kathleen Campbell Riley,

the first resident of 1 Clifford Street was its owner and builder, Montague Ivory. Montague Ivory is believed to have arrived in Australia in the late nineteenth century. Initially he is thought to have worked in Sydney as a bricklayer. From the early 1890s he lived in Charleville where he was recorded at various times as a fancy goods vendor, tobacconist, hairdresser and the treasurer of the local Australian Workers Union branch. From 1904 Montague Ivory was operating as a building contractor based in Toowoomba, his tenders for work regularly being accepted. In 1906 he successfully tendered for an additional storey of the Toowoomba (Fire) Brigade Building. That same year his tender for extensions to Crawford's Freemason's Hotel (currently the Portadown Hotel at the corner of Neil and Herries Streets, Toowoomba) was accepted. Ivory also won the substantial contract of £6,999 for the erection of the new malt house at the Black Gully site of the Toowoomba Maltings (QHR600852). The building, measuring 240 feet/73 metres, was designed by Toowoomba architect Harry Marks. The malt house opened in June 1907. In 1908 Montague Ivory won the contract for additions and alterations to the then Posts and Telegraph Office (QHR600847). This additional work involved the construction of a new telephone exchange on the first floor and allowed women to be employed in the exchange. These construction projects appear to have provided the financial means for Ivory to invest in 1909 in the 2,023 square metres of land at the corner of Clifford and Margaret Streets. Having in 1910 won the contracts for construction of the flour mill (£1,750) and the department store (£9,000) for Barnes and Co. in Warwick (QHR 600956), Montague Ivory spent time during 1910 and 1911 in that city. He is first identified as living in Clifford Street, Toowoomba, in 1911. In 1915, Montague Ivory offered the adjacent 3 Clifford Street for sale, describing it as a well-built house close to town. In April 1919, Ivory sold his 1 Clifford Street residence to Mary Cecilia Kelly, the wife of Dr Arthur Kelly, moving to a nearby site in Margaret Street.

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Arthur Kelly was born in 1890. Having trained as a doctor of medicine in Sydney, he was based in Stanthorpe in 1917 when he married Mary Cecelia Pigott, the second daughter of Toowoomba draper MD Pigott of Ruthven Street (QHR 600861) and 'Glendalough', Toowoomba. In 1918 Dr and Mrs Kelly were living in Brisbane and the following year purchased 1 Clifford Street from Montague Ivory. They occupied the now-named 'Cliffordene' until 1921, when they sold it to John Mitchell Harris. Dr and Mrs Kelly moved to Gympie late in 1921. John Mitchell Harris arrived in Queensland from Glasgow c1883. In the last two decades of the nineteenth century he travelled and worked in central, western and northern Queensland, initially in the drapery and store run by James Stewart in Rockhampton. In 1895, JM Harris married Annie/Anne Maxwell, the widow of the proprietor of the Winton Herald, David Henderson Maxwell. Born c1855 in Tillicoultry, Scotland, Annie Harris had arrived in Queensland c1883. She was the mother of two sons.

4 In the closing years of the twentieth century JM Harris is referred to as a journalist

and the proprietor of the Winton Herald. In the early years of the twentieth century, JM Harris was the manager of Burns Philp and Co. drapery department in Cairns. He travelled regularly to Sydney to place orders for the store. Burns Philp had been established in Cairns since 1883. By the time Harris was the drapery department manager, the company occupied a two-storey brick office and store in Abbott Street designed by architect John Hamilton Park and constructed 1900-01. In 1906, JM and Annie Harris relocated to Toowoomba following the purchase of the Toowoomba drapery business of George Pitlow Merry, known at the time as GP Merry's Drapery Emporium, located in Ruthven Street. A second-generation draper, GP Merry had opened his Toowoomba drapery store in 1894, moving to

2 Indications are that 3 Clifford Street was known as 'La Chute' when rented or leased as the Toowoomba residence of pastoralists Charles and Kathleen Campbell Riley from 1910 until 1915. Mrs Campbell Riley, the former Kathleen Walsh had spent some of her childhood in Milton House (QHR 600253) when her father, Henry Walsh, MLC and speaker of the Legislative Assembly, was a tenant of that place. However, Montague Ivory was the owner of 3 Clifford Street (La Chute) when this 'well built house close to town' with its two verandahs was auctioned in 1915. At a later time, 3 Clifford Street was known as 'Carwoola'. 3 Montague Ivory continued in the construction business, as architect for a £60,000 brewery in Toowoomba for the Queensland Brewery Ltd

in 1924 as well as a single storey clubhouse for the West Toowoomba Bowling Club in 1925. Still living in Margaret Street, Montague Ivory died in August 1943, aged 82 years. His wife, Edith Margaret Ivory, had passed away a decade earlier. 4 DH Maxwell drowned at the engine waterhole at Winton in November 1894. Having commenced in the printing business at the age of 7 years, eldest son David Kay Maxwell continued as sole proprietor of the Winton Herald until 1950 when he retired at the age of 72 years. The Winton Herald ceased publication two years later. Second son Henry Maxwell published the Richmond Record, Hughenden Observer and later the Flinders Chronicle before his death in 1950.

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the newly constructed Alexandra Building (QHR601317) located at 451-455 Ruthven Street, Toowoomba in 1902. There the drapery occupied the northern most of the two stores located on the ground floor.

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Designed by HJ (Harry) Marks, the Alexandra Building had been constructed by Toowoomba builder James Renwick. The Drapery Emporium occupied space 100ft (30.5m) long by 30ft (9.1m) wide. Within this, GP Merry had established smaller departments that sold household drapery, dress and silk materials and millinery and underlinen. With his years of experience, JM Harris from 1906 promoted his newly acquired business. He advertised that his prices were more moderate than Merry's, though with the same high standard of excellence still maintained in his store. Newspaper reports indicate he was an employer who considered his staff, refusing to open on the Saturday morning of the Easter weekend. Other reports tell of staff using the first floor hall in the Alexandra Building for social functions. Society page stories of the period report that the dresses of brides and bridesmaids often were designed and made at JM Harris' store. In 1911, Annie Harris died, aged 56 years, leaving real estate valued at over £1,000. John and Annie Harris had been married for 16 years. A decade later, JM Harris married Malvena Sears. It was around this time that he purchased 1 Clifford Street. Harris was a member of the Queensland Turf Club, Tattersall's Turf Club, and the Toowoomba Turf Club. He was also a life member of the Toowoomba Royal Agricultural Society. A daughter, Neva Harris, was born to John and Malvena Harris in 1925. While on holiday in July 1933 at Sandgate, JM Harris suffered a stroke and died. The Ruthven Street business appears to have continued operating as JM Harris until c1935. Malvena Harris remained at 'Cliffordene'. Daughter Neva married Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Henry Byrne in Brisbane in 1946. It is not known when Malvena Harris died, although she was living at 'Cliffordene' in the late 1950s. At some time, the house was subdivided into two flats. 'Cliffordene' was restored in the early 1990s and opened as Harris House by the Honourable Mr Justice John Harris Byrne RFD, the grandson of John Mitchell Harris, on 15 October 1994. Ownership of the Clifford Street residence was retained within the Harris family until the death of Neva Byrne in 2014 after which the residence was gifted to its present owner, the National Trust of Australia (Queensland).

REFERENCE LIST

Archival sources: National Trust of Australia (Queensland):

File TOOW 1/120 Queensland State Archives:

Queensland Electoral Roll, Gregory, 1897 Queensland Electoral Roll, Warrego, 1891 Queensland Electoral Roll, Warrego, 1893 Queensland Electoral Roll, Warrego, 1900

Toowoomba Historical Society:

File on Cliffordene, 1 Clifford Street, Toowoomba, Notes and plan provided by Peter Cullen Notes by Mary Rafferty Notes on Harris House by Beris Broderick

Books and journals:

Buckley, Ken and Kris Klugman, The history of Burns Philp : the Australian company in the South Pacific. Sydney: Burns, Philp & Co., 1981.

Tibbits, George. 'The so-called Melbourne Domestic Queen Anne' in Historic Environment, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1982, pp. 4-44.

Watson, Donald and Judith McKay. A directory of Queensland architects to 1940. St Lucia: University of Queensland Library, 1984.

Internet sources: Australian National University

5 JM Harris purchased the business from GP Merry; the building was owned by Thomas Kelsall Lamb.

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http://archivescollection.anu.edu.au/index.php/burns-philp-and-company-limited Australian War Memorial https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1214848 New South Wales government, Office of Environment and Heritage http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=5045720 Queensland government, Department of Environment and Science https://environment.ehp.qld.gov.au/heritage-register/detail/?id=600852# https://environment.ehp.qld.gov.au/heritage-register/detail/?id=600956 Queensland government, Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy https://gisservices.information.qld.gov.au/arcgis/rest/directories/historicalscans/cad_scans/cad-map-town-toowoomba-sh5-1938.jpg https://gisservices.information.qld.gov.au/arcgis/rest/directories/historicalscans/cad_scans/cad-map-town-winton-1976.jpg St John's College, University of Cambridge, UK https://documents.joh.cam.ac.uk/public/Eagle/Eagle%20Chapters/Obituaries/Obituary_1940s.pdf Toowoomba Regional Council http://www.tr.qld.gov.au/facilities-recreation/cemeteries/deceased-search/burial/51865 http://www.tr.qld.gov.au/facilities-recreation/cemeteries/deceased-search/burial/9786 http://www.tr.qld.gov.au/facilities-recreation/cemeteries/deceased-search/burial/880 Other: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2c/16/c1/2c16c16133a3dd75d590959f37e21a66.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Byrne_(judge) https://www.heavenaddress.com/Joseph-Henry-Byrne/1517622/ https://www.myheritage.com/names/kathleen_walsh Newspapers, sourced through Trove:

Balonne Beacon Brisbane Courier Capricornian Central Queensland Herald Charleville Times Courier-Mail Daily Mail Darling Downs Gazette Evening News, [Sydney] Longreach Leader Morning Bulletin Morning Post National Leader Northern Miner North Queensland Register Queenslander Queensland Figaro Sydney Mail and NSW Advertiser Telegraph The Week Truth Warwick Argus

http://archivescollection.anu.edu.au/index.php/burns-philp-and-company-limited

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1214848

http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=5045720

https://environment.ehp.qld.gov.au/heritage-register/detail/?id=600852


https://gisservices.information.qld.gov.au/arcgis/rest/directories/historicalscans/cad_scans/cad-map-town-toowoomba-sh5-1938.jpg


https://gisservices.information.qld.gov.au/arcgis/rest/directories/historicalscans/cad_scans/cad-map-town-winton-1976.jpg


https://documents.joh.cam.ac.uk/public/Eagle/Eagle%20Chapters/Obituaries/Obituary_1940s.pdf

http://www.tr.qld.gov.au/facilities-recreation/cemeteries/deceased-search/burial/51865



https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2c/16/c1/2c16c16133a3dd75d590959f37e21a66.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Byrne_(judge)

https://www.heavenaddress.com/Joseph-Henry-Byrne/1517622/

https://www.myheritage.com/names/kathleen_walsh

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Western Champion and General Advertiser for the Central-Western Districts Winton Herald (and Western Queensland Grazier) Worker

LIST OF ATTACHMENTS

1. Site plan and aerial view (2 page PDF)

2. <250KB image files (5)

6. Description of the place

WRITTEN DESCRIPTION

Harris House is a Federation-era, single storey, brick and render building located on an elevated site at the corner of Margaret and Clifford Streets, Toowoomba. The building incorporates elements typical of the Queen Anne Federation style, more commonly seen in Victoria and NSW. Constructed as a residence, it is now used as office accommodation.

Exterior: The roof of Harris House consists of a pair of hipped, terra-cotta tiled sections, with three gables to the eastern or entry side of the building and one large projecting gable on the northern side. The central eastern gable projects across the verandah to the alignment of the curved concrete and tile entry stairs. The remaining two gables on the eastern elevation project partially across the verandahs to cover bay windows. Verandah roofs spring from well below the main roof soffit and are straight skillions sheeted with terra-cotta tiles. Three brick chimneys and a large central skylight/lantern project into the roof. The skylight/lantern has a bull-nosed, reverse-curved corrugated iron roof and is topped by an elaborate finial the roof of which is supported by four small columns. The tops of the hips and gables to the roof are decorated with terra-cotta finials. The central gable end above the entry is rendered roughcast, decorated with an eight point flower above a draped floral and fruit motif, as is the gable end projecting on the northern side. The bargeboards on both these gables feature dentil mouldings. The northern gable has brickwork to the soffit. The gutter line is continued across the gable, with the brickwork above the gutter line rendered. The brickwork here shows evidence of repair. A decorated metal hood is located over a pair of double-hung windows on this elevation. Two small gables project from the hood. Infill to these are patterned pressed metal. Elaborate concrete columns linked by rendered concrete arches define the verandahs on all elevations. Paired columns are located at the north-east and south-west corners of the front elevation. The most northerly of the columns on the west elevation are believed to have been introduced in the extension and alteration work conducted in the early 1990s. A complex paint scheme emphasises the intricate detail of the columns and arches. Concrete balusters between the columns are a feature of the east, the shorter verandah to the north and the south verandah where the balusters are to the central paired columns only. The verandah skillions are lined with T&G boards and edged with decorative profile mouldings and cover strips. Verandah flooring generally is timber (front) or concrete (rear). A recessed tiled section of the verandah, thought to be a later alteration, links the front stairs with the front entry door. The six-panel front door with its heavy brass knocker is set between mid-waisted lead lights the theme of which is bluebirds against a sun background. The walls of the core of the building predominantly are of double brick, originally tuck-pointed, with rendered pilasters at window reveals and mullions on the eastern elevation. The building sits on concrete footings on the

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east and brick piers internally. Where used, the quoins to the brickwork are decorated in large, toothed, rendered and floral decorated panels imitating stone quoins. Windows are generally large, double hung and clear glazed except where leadlight has been inserted such as the bay windows. The pattern repeated throughout is of a heart, leaves and an eight point flower. High set windows are located above the verandah roof on the southern elevation and partially inserted through the verandah roof of the western elevation. The north-western corner of the building is clad with weatherboards and features a door and two arched frames with casements and leadlight windows to the northern elevation. An c1970 photos shows these windows were once used to enclose part of the verandah on the northern side. Aerial images and Toowoomba Regional Council plans show that this corner infill has been subject to change over time.

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small set of concrete steps. A plaque on the front elevation reads:

HARRIS HOUSE OFFICIALLY OPENED BY

THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE JOHN HARRIS BYRNE RFD

ON 15TH OCTOBER 1994

A concrete and tile path links the entry stairs with the recessed Clifford Street gate. The fence on the Clifford Street alignment consists of modern, low brick panel sections separated by brick columns, in-filled with tubular steel panels topped with fleur de lis.

7 The fence to the Margaret Street consists of low brick panel sections

separated by square timber posts (with knobs). Scalloped chains link the posts.8

Grounds The grounds of Harris House have been separated into entry and parking space (south and west) and garden. A hedge row provides the separation to the south. A timber arbour frame is located at the rear of the building. Within the garden, some elements are identified as significant, specifically three Mediterranean cedars (Cedrus atlantica) and a Canary Island date palm (Phoenix canariensis). The grounds also contain modern lighting and signage. Interior Since the early 1990s, Harris House has been used for office accommodation. In this configuration, the building has seven offices, a shared board room and kitchen and two bathrooms. A wide central hall and two subsidiary halls that separate functional spaces provide access and circulation. Evidence of the previous residential use of the building can be identified through the form and fixtures of the rooms. In general, the front rooms were more formal and show more detailing while the rear rooms were for utility purposes. Internal walls are load bearing double brick. Ceilings in the formal rooms and spaces are high and ornate with pressed metal, generally in good condition, in a range of patterns reflecting art nouveau, art deco and classical styles. The flooring is polished hoop pine timber throughout, except the wet areas where vinyl floor covering is used. Four rooms have carpet. The formal rooms of Harris House generally have plastered walls mid-rails and deep skirting boards. The lights to most room are operated by ceiling mounted cords/pulls. Some of the internal highlights of the building are: Entry foyer, vestibule and hall 1 The lantern in this space is square in form and features pressed metal on vertical and horizontal planes (6 point star pattern in centre) with three, four light casement windows on each elevation. The vestibule features plaster walls, decorated plaster arches and dentils to the upper section. Some cracks are evident in the plaster work. Additional illumination is provided by a hanging light fixture (reproduction)

6 Images from November 1986 show these two frames previously enclosed two bays of the northern verandah. The 1946 aerial shows a structure between the house and Margaret Street. A Toowoomba Regional Council sewerage plan from the 1970s shows only the room with the exterior door (currently Office 7), in situ. 7 Undated images in NTAQ files show this fence replaced an earlier scalloped brick and timber picket fence. 8 Images from November 1986 show the space between the posts filled with pickets which were still extant in 1991, although the Clifford Street frontage had been fenced with brick posts in-filled with tubular steel panels topped with fleur de lis, recessed for the entry path.

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Office 1 Central to this room is a fireplace with a timber mantle and surround with small balustered shelves. The square cast iron fireplace insert features tube lined glazed tiles of poppy flowers in an art nouveau style. The hearth is of glazed brown tiles. Other features of this room are the front bay window that features heart, leaf and flower designs in its lead light, and a timber and glass door set within mid-waisted lead light side panels that features coloured glass and opens to the north verandah. Evidence of a previous sill and changes to the exterior brickwork indicate that the southern door may once have been a window. Office 2 The presence of a corner fireplace would indicate this room was originally a bedroom. An oak mantle surrounds an arched cast iron fireplace insert. Placed centrally above the fire is an oak hinged door cabin, a candelabra art nouveau style carved within an oval set in the rectangular door. Shared board room This room can be accessed from the central hall and the north verandah via a coloured glass and timber door. Its ceiling void is created through a stepped arrangement of coved and flat pressed metal sheet, decorative cornice, borders and moulding strips. The fireplace insert surround and fender are of blue glazed tiles which, along with the mantle and its pilasters, are thought to be original. Office 5 The cast iron cooking range, remnant wall tiles and a tiled hearth identify this room as the original kitchen. The ceiling features less elaborate pressed metal than the formal rooms. Shared kitchen and bathrooms Work undertaken in the early 1990s created male and female toilets and a new kitchen space. The larger of the bathrooms retains a bathtub. Hall 3 This hall leads to the back door and is narrower than the front door. Wall and ceiling details are simple. A single, wall mounted gas light fitting with no glass remains, as does evidence of an early bell system. Features of Harris House of state-level cultural heritage significance include:

Federation-era construction materials and exterior decorative elements such as patterned quoins,

pilasters, gable infill patterns of 8 point flower and draped floral and fruit mouldings repeated throughout

and dentil detail

Verandah composition and style, and especially the eastern projecting gable and front stairs

Layout as a villa residence with formal and service areas, including the lantern roofed vestibule in Hall 1

Features such as high ceilings and quality joinery and fenestration throughout, but especially in the

formal areas

The use of pressed metal in the ceiling of formal areas

Identified mature cedar and palm trees.

Features of Harris House not of state-level cultural heritage significance include:

Air conditioning heads in each room

Modern light fittings and electrical fittings

Fences

External spaces such as the bitumen car parking

Signage

General garden plantings

Recent building and garden elements.

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7. Statement of cultural heritage significance

Decide which criteria are relevant to your application and complete a response for each in the boxes below. Write ‘not applicable’ against the criteria that are not relevant to your application.

CRITERION A the place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland’s history

Harris House, through its intact and distinct surviving fabric and surrounding grounds is representative of a way of life associated with successful commercial activity in a major Queensland regional city, a way of life that made a contribution to the pattern of development across Queensland.

CRITERION B the place demonstrates rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of Queensland’s cultural heritage

Not applicable

CRITERION C the place has potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of Queensland’s history

Not applicable

CRITERION D the place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places

Harris House is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a high quality, Federation-era residential home in a Queensland regional city. These demonstrated principal characteristics include its intact, highly decorated elevations with substantial verandahs and spacious, quality interiors.

CRITERION E the place is important because of its aesthetic significance

Harris House is important as a century old landmark residence which makes an important contribution to the Toowoomba streetscape. Harris House has beautiful and picturesque attributes that have been maintained and enhanced. The setting of Harris House in a structured garden with significant mature trees contributes to the aesthetic of the place and is a characteristic valued by the community.

CRITERION F the place is important in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical achievement at a particular period

Not applicable

CRITERION G the place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons

Not applicable

CRITERION H the place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland’s history

Harris House is associated with its first owner and builder, Montague Ivory, responsible for construction of the1906 malt house at the Toowoomba Maltings (QHR600852) and Barnes and Co. Store in Warwick (QHR600956). Harris House is associated also with businessman John Mitchell Harris, whose drapery store was located in the Alexandra Building in Ruthven Street, Toowoomba (QHR 601317).

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8. Site plan showing proposed boundary

Attach a site plan to this form. Tick to confirm:

☒ the site plan is drawn or sketched to scale

☒ all significant heritage elements of the place are shown and clearly labelled in their approximate locations

☒ the proposed heritage boundary is shown

☒ the cadastral (lot on plan) boundaries of the place are shown

9. Photographs

Attach photographs to this application that show the place in its current state. Number all photographs and complete the index table below adding more rows if needed. If submitting an electronic application, submit the photographs in a digital file attached with the application form. Maximum file size for digital images attached to this form is 250kb each. If submitting an application in hard copy, submit the photographs as an electronic file saved onto a CD or USB and attach one hardcopy print out of images to this application form.

DATE AND TIME TAKEN

December 2017 and February 2019

PHOTOGRAPHER

National Trust of Australia (Queensland)

COPYRIGHT PERMISSIONS

By law copyright of material submitted is subject to conditions set out in the copyright licence for that material. Please enter licensing details in the metadata for each image/file requiring copyright. A copyright licence may be obtained free of charge from Creative Commons at www.creativecommons.org. Creative Commons licence ‘Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works’ is recommended. This licence maintains author copyright but allows others to copy and distribute work provided the author is given credit (in a way specified by the author) and the work is not changed in any way and is not used commercially.

IMAGE NUMBER FILE NAME DESCRIPTION

1 1Harris_House.JPG Eastern elevation of Harris House.

2 2Harris_House.JPG View towards Harris House from the south-east showing setting and verandah detail.

3 3Harris_House.JPG View towards Harris House from the north-east showing gable to Margaret Street and timber wall section.

4 4Harris_House.JPG Southern elevation showing timber and concrete sections of verandah.

5 5Harris_House.JPG South-eastern corner of house showing quoin detailing, half-pilasters and leadlight.

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10. Lodgement

All sections of this form must be completed and attachments prepared (in particular the site plan showing the proposed heritage boundary and photographs of the place) before an application is lodged. Incomplete applications cannot be accepted.

Send one copy of the completed form and attachments to:

Email: [email protected]

OR Post: Permit and Licence Management Department of Environment and Science GPO Box2454 Brisbane Q 4001

Further information

email [email protected]

call 13 QGOV (13 74 68) and ask to speak to the Applications Co-ordinator, Heritage Branch

visit www.qld.gov.au/environment/land/heritage/

http://www.qld.gov.au/environment/land/heritage/

Aerial view showing the

proposed boundary (red)

and significant elements

of Harris House,

1 Clifford Street,

Toowoomba

1/SP102795

Harris

House

Mediterranean cedars (3)

Canary Island

date palm

Base source: Google Maps

National Trust of Australia (Queensland), Nomination of Harris House, Toowoomba,

to the Queensland Heritage Register

1/SP102795

1 Clifford Street, Toowoomba. National Trust of Australia (Queensland), March 2019, page 1.

Cliffordene/Harris House

Old description: Resub 1 of subs 1 to 3 of resub 1 of sub 3 of part of allotment 7, Co. Aubigny, Parish Drayton.

New description: Lot 1 on registered plan 16250.

From NTAQ file TOOW 1/120



1852 Suburban allotment no. 20. Grantee William Horton, £34. County of Aubigny, Parish of Drayton. Allotment of 34 acres. 5 January 1852. (Certificate of title notes in NTAQ TOOW 1/120)

1861 Montague Ivory born. http://www.tr.qld.gov.au/facilities-recreation/cemeteries/deceased-search/burial/51865

1868 C/T 125/205. Transfer to James Taylor, 32 acres, 3 roods, 16 perches. 17 January 1868. (Certificate of title notes in NTAQ TOOW 1/120)

1876 The origins of Burns, Philp and Company Limited can be traced to the partnership between James Burns and Robert Philp formed in 1876. The company was incorporated in Sydney on 21 April 1883 with Burns and Philp as joint Managing Directors until Philp resigned from the Board in 1892. By the end of the 1880s the company had branches in Townsville, Normanton, Burketown, Thursday Island, Cairns, Charters Towers, Sydney, Brisbane and London. By this date the interests of the company included merchandising, shipping with its own vessels, and as an agent for the Australasian United Steam Navigation Company (AUSN), and insurance, with the establishment of the North Queensland Insurance Company as a subsidiary in 1886







See also The history of Burns Philp : the Australian company in the South Pacific / K. Buckley and K. Klugman.

1883 Burns Philp incorporated under NSW law with Philp based in Townsville and Burns in Sydney. http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=5045720

c1883 David Henderson and Annie Maxwell with at least son David Kay Maxwell, aged 5 years, arrived in Australia from Sheffield, England. (Longreach Leader, 31 March 1850, p. 19.)

Late 1880s JM Harris came to Australia from Scotland to open offices for Burns Philp. After that he worked in various firms. He came to Toowoomba from Gympie. He installed the first lift in Toowoomba. (NTAQ file TOOW 1/120, Mary Rafferty, Toowoomba Historical Society notes, p. 1.)

1886 Winton Herald commenced publication. Concluded in 1952 after 66 years. (Northern Miner, 29 December 1952, p. 1. )

1890 Dr Arthur F Kelly born. Father was in the police force. (Telegraph, 26 October 1946, p. 6.)

April 1891 Reference to Mr and Mrs David Henderson Maxwell of the Winton Herald (and Western Queensland Grazier). He is a journalist. (BC, 22 April 1891, p. 6.)

Dec. 1891 Marriage of Charles Campbell Riley of Lanark Station, Clermont to Kate Walsh, second daughter of late Hon William Henry Walsh MLC. At St John's Pro-Cathedral (William Street), Brisbane. (BC, 17 December 1891, p. 6.)

A Charles Campbell Riley was born in 1854 in London. He appears to have returned to England where he died in 1939.











Dec. 1891 Montague Ivory involved in court case in Sydney… over a falled brick that caused him physical damage. He was working as a bricklayer. Defendant won the case, not Montague Ivory. (Evening News, [Sydney], 15 December 1891, p. 6.)

Oct. 1892 Montague Ivory. Claim on electoral roll for Warrego, 4 October 1892. Not on 1891 Electoral Roll. (Queensland Electoral Rolls, Warrego, 1891 and 1900.)

1893 Montague Ivory noted as resident in Alfred Street, Charleville. (Queensland Electoral Roll, Warrego, 1893.)

1893 Montague Ivory commenced as treasurer of Charleville Branch of the AWU. (Worker, 28 January 1899, p. 11.)

Mar 1893 Arawatta departed the bar, Brisbane, 4 March for Cooktown via ports, PAX JM Harris (BC, 6 March 1893, p. 3.)

Nov 1894 Reference to DH Maxwell who drowned at the engine waterhole at Winton, 4 November. Mention of 2 sons. Note Anne Maxwell. From the grave stone, he was 44 when he died and was born in Scotland. (Warwick Argus, 10 November 1894, p. 2.)

Nov. 1894 Alexander and Munro were universal providers of Ruthven Street, Toowoomba. The business started in a small way in 1871 and after Alexander retired, Munro continued the business. (Sydney Mail and NSW Advertiser, 17 November 1894, p. 1,016.)

April 1895 Claimant of land at Winton. (Telegraph, 1 April 1895, p.



1895 Mr and Mrs JM Harris travelled on the Eurimbla, departing BNE for Rockhampton (?) on 3 September. (BC, 4 Sept 1895, p. 3.)

1895 Mr and Mrs JM Harris (nee Maxwell) returned to Winton from the their honeymoon. (BC, 20 Sept 1895, p. 6.)

Sept. 1895 JM Harris made his claim to be on the Electoral Roll for Gregory. At this time he is aged 37 years. Not on 1894 Electoral Roll. (Queensland Electoral Roll, Gregory, 1897.)

Oct. 1895 Land at the corner of Margaret and Clifford Streets. Death of registered proprietor and transfer by transmission to Sarah Taylor, George Condamine Taylor, Gilbert Gostwick Cory, James Taylor and Peter Macpherson as devisees in trust. 19 October 1895. (Certificate of title notes in NTAQ TOOW 1/120)

1897 JM Harris built a cottage in Oondooroo Street, Winton. (Queenslander, 13 February 1897, p. 380.)

1897 JM Harris on the Electoral Roll for Gregory as a journalist living in Elderslie Street, Winton. (Queensland Electoral Roll, Gregory, 1897.)

Feb. 1897 C/T 923/20. Transfer to George Condamine Taylor 17 acres 2 roods 34.3 perches. Resub 19, sub 38 (?) of allotment 7. (Certificate of title notes in NTAQ TOOW 1/120)

Sept. 1898 Allan and Stark acquired Alexander and Munro. (BC, 8 September 1898, p. 6.)




Oct 1898 Mrs Campbell Riley, who has spent the winter with her mother, Mrs Walsh, at La Chute, South Brisbane, has returned to her home, Lanark station, Clermont. (The Week, 14 October 1898, p. 4.)

1898-99 Montague Ivory a fancy goods vendor in Charleville. (Watson and McKay, A Directory of Queensland Architects to 1940, p. 114.)

Feb 1898 Departures, Feb 16, Adelaide, for Mackay, Townsville and Cairns, …JM Harris… (BC, 17 February 1898, p. 3. )

Sept 1898 JM Harris described as the present proprietor of the Winton Herald. (Capricornian, 3 September 1898, p. 19.)

June 1898 Death of John Munro on 26 June. Father of John H Munro, partner in Alexander and Munro. (BC, 28 June 1898, p. 5.)

Jan. 1899 Montague Ivory , treasurer of the Charleville AWU. (Worker, 28 January 1899, p. 11.)

Feb 1899 Montague Ivory is reported as a tobacconist and treasurer of the Charleville Branch of the AWU. (Western Champion and General Advertiser for the Central-Western Districts, 28 February 1899, p. 5.)

Feb 1899 Corner of Margaret and Clifford Streets. Death of registered proprietor and transfer by transmission to Gerbert Gostwick Cory and James Taylor as devisees in trust. 6 February 1899. (Certificate of title notes in NTAQ TOOW 1/120)

1900-01 Montague Ivory living in Charleville. (Watson and McKay, A Directory of Queensland Architects to 1940, p. 114.)

1900 Montague Ivory noted as 31 year old hairdresser, Alfred Street, Charleville. Date of claim on electoral roll is 4 October 1892. (Queensland Electoral Roll, Warrego, 1900.)

Jan 1900 Corner of Margaret and Clifford Streets. C/T 957/86 Transfer to John Hugh Munro, Subs 1 to 3 totalling 1 rood 39.6 perches. (Certificate of title notes in NTAQ TOOW 1/120)

1901

(Telegraph, 4 November 1901, p. 6.)

June 1901 Report that Mr M Ivory was had occupied the Commercial Hotel in Charleville 'for a time'.(Charleville Times, 8 June 1901, p. 2.)

March 1902 Jas. Renwick announced that he would be visiting the Old Country and during his absence his business would be in the hands of his son, Andrew. (Appears to be a building contractor.) (DDG, 2 March 1902, p. 2.)


Aug-Sept 1902 GP Merry moved into the Alexandra Building at 451-455 Ruthven Street, occupying the northern shop on the ground floor. Inside, the departments included household drapery, dress and silk dept and millinery and underlinen. (Queenslander, 20 December, 1902, p. 1,068.)

April 1902 Departures 19 April BNE Wodonga, for Cooktown via ports, JM Harris, (The Week, 25 April 1902, p. 9.)

May 1902 Arrivals TVE Barcoo, 28 April, from Brisbane via ports, JM Harris, (NQ Register, 5 May 1902, p. 25.)

Aug. 1902 Arrivals TVE, August 24, Wodonga, from Cooktown via ports, JM Harris… (NQ Register, 1 September 1902, p. 26.)

Aug 1902 Arrivals BNE Aug 28 Wodonga, from Cooktown via ports, JM Harris (Telegraph, 29 August 1902, p. 8.)

Aug. 1903 Arrivals Arauwatta 27 August from southern ports…JM Harris… (Morning Post, 28 August 1903, p. 2.)

1903 Mrs JM Harris passed through Charters Towers on her way to Cairns for a holiday, from Winton. (North Queensland Register, 4 May 1903.) In 1904 she stayed two months in Charters Towers with a Miss White in School Street, according to the Northern Miner.

1904 Morning Post, Cairns, 1 January 1904, p. 3.


1904 Arrivals, Cairns, 22 September Aramac, from Melbourne via ports…JM Harris… (Morning Post, 23 September 1904, p. 2.)

1904 Arrivals Barcoo from Brisbane via ports, 14 November, …JM Harris… (North Queensland Register, 21 November 1904, p. 12.)

1904 Montague Ivory, building contractor, living at Cliffordene (Toowoomba Historical Society notes on Cliffordene, 1 Clifford Street, also Harris House notes by Beris Broderick)

1904-24 Montague Ivory living in Toowoomba. (Watson and McKay, A Directory of Queensland Architects to 1940, p. 114.)

1905 Departures, January 28, Eastern, Capt W. Ellis for Kobe via ports. …JM Harris… (Morning Post, 30 January 1905, p. 2.)

1905 Arrivals Cairns, 19 October Arawutta, from Melbourne via ports, …JM Harris… (Morning Post, 20 October 1905, p. 2.)

1905 Arrivals BNE Wyandra from Cooktown via ports …JM Harris… (Telegraph, 9 November 1905, p. 8.)

Nov 1905 GP Merry advertised a sale of the whole of his stock at sale prices. Disposal by early January. Departing for visit to England. Had been in business for 12 years. (DDG, 25 November 1905, p. 5.)

1906 First mention of a resident in the vicinity of Clifford/Margaret Streets is Duncan Bannerman in 1906. (Notes provided by Peter Cullen.)

April 1906 The ladies of Toowoomba will be pleased to hear that although Mr G. P. Merry has sold his interest in the business in Ruthven street, the new proprietor, John M. Harris, will continue the same high class trade as formerly. Miss Leyden will continue at the head of the dressmaking department and Miss Laking will look after the millinery. Extensive alterations will be made in the interior of the store, whereby the showroom will be enlarged and new millerinery show cases


put in. A large and well lighted fitting room will be erected so that ladies will have ample (?) to have their costimues fitted with (?) degrees of comfort. Mr Harris suggested (?) that the prices have to date (?) been high and as he is a believer in the small profit system, the prices in furute will be more moderate and the same high standard of excellence maintained. (DDG, 21 April 1906, p. 4.)

1906 (?) JM Harris bought the business in Ruthven Street from an unnamed party (later mentioned as Jas. Renwick?) who had purchased the business from Mr Merry. Harris did not own the Ruthven St building, rather it was owned by TK Lamb whose café was next door. (NTAQ file TOOW 1/120, Mary Rafferty, Toowoomba Historical Society notes, p. 1.) (Jas Renwick was a building contractor around this period.)

March 1906 Morning Post, 29 March 1906, p. 2.

March 1906 Notes that for the past five years, JM Harris has been in charge of the drapery department of Messrs Burns Philp & Co., Cairns. (DDG, 23 March 1906, p. 6.)


March 1906 At a meeting of the Toowoomba Fire Brigade Board, held yesterday morning, the tender of Mr M Ivory was accepted for the erection of an additional storey of the Brigade Building. The amount of the tender was £369; time, 10 weeks. (DDG, 8 March 1906, p. 2.)

This images shows the Toowoomba Fire Station in 1924. (It was published in the Daily Mail, 20 December 1924, p. 14.) Montague Ivory was the contractor in 1906 of the additional storey.


April 1906 Arrivals BNE from TVE via ports, Bingera, 5 April, …JM Harris…, (Telegraph, 5 April 1906, p. 8.)

April 1906 Queenslander, 14 April 1906, p. 13.

Kensington is entered in the QHR. (601322, 126 Russell Street) According to the citation, GP Merry sold his business in 1905 and he and his wife took the opportunity to go 'home' (England) for a visit.[1][2] In the citation there is a gap between 1905/1906 and 1912. Dr David Horn and his wife Amelia moved into Kensington in 1912.

July 1906 New additions carried out on Crawford's Freemason's Hotel by M. Ivory. (DDG, 24 July 1906, p. 5.) According to the article, this involved two new wings, each 36 feet in length, which added spacious private apartments and 11 new


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bedrooms. This hotel, at the corner of Neil and Herries Streets, commenced as the Prince Albert Hotel in 1865. It later became the Freemason's Hotel. The extension/additions created a U-shape. The hotel has been altered considerably and operates today as the Portadown Hotel.

Aug. 1906 Letter from M. Ivory to Council calling attention to the state of the channel in front of his new building, Ruthven Street. [Ruthven and Campbell Streets] (DDG, 14 August 1906, p. 5.)

1906 'In 1906 William Jones & Son embarked on a major expansion program at the Black Gully site, calling tenders in September for the erection of a new malt house.[18] Costing £6,999, the new building was designed and supervised by architect Harry Marks. The works comprised the erection of a new 240ft (73m) long malt house and kilns linked to the 1899 malt house, and the conversion of the existing brewery tower to a high water storage reservoir. The new malt house included steeping tanks, a large polished cement germinating floor, two kilns, malt dressing rooms, and a number of pine storage bins. Elevators and a conveyor belt, which traversed the length of the building, transported the grain in its various stages. The malt storage chamber was fitted with 38 Marks-patented reversible casement louvred windows and a number of Marks's roof ventilators. Special kiln top ventilators were also designed by Marks. The new complex, described as having the largest malting floor area in the Commonwealth,[19] was opened on 1 June 1907. The contractor was Montague Ivory with the plastering (including the cement germinating floor) by WJ Waldron, ironwork by the Toowoomba Foundry Co, and plumbing by Partridge and Co.' (QHR 600852) https://environment.ehp.qld.gov.au/heritage-register/detail/?id=600852#

June 1907 Article about the extension to the Malthouse, architect Marks, contractor M. Ivory. Contract price was £7,000. (DDG, 3 June 1907, p. 5.)

April 1907 To celebrate a successful year's business Mr John M. Harris will give an anniversary bonus of half-a-crown to all purchasers of twenty shillings' worth of goods. All the new furs, millinery, dress goods, etc., are subject to the bonus. (DDG, 13 April 1907, p. 5.)

April 1907 Montague Ivory's application for a provisional certificate for his premises partly completed on the corner of Ruthven and Campbell Streets was refused. (DDG, 11 April 1907, p. 5.)

June 1908 The employees of Mr John M. Harris, Ruthven Street, have issued invitations for a social evening, to be held in the Alexandra Hall on Tuesday, 16th inst. (DDG, 13 June 1908, p. 5.)

Aug. 1908 Montague Ivory granted tender for additions and alterations to the Posts and Telegraph office, £2,300. (DDG, 19 August 1908, p. 5.)



Aug 1908 Morning Bulletin, 29 August 1908, p. 4.

Sept 1908 Mrs J. M. Harris, of Toowoomba, for many years a resident here, is gradually getting rid of her properties in this town. Mrs F. R. Chellingworth has purchased the allotment at the corner of Elderslie and Oondooroo, lately occupied by Mr W. Steele as a fruit shop, and which she intends to run as refreshment rooms. It is one of the best stands, and should do well. This corner is rather historical. The original building on it, out of the material of which two of the shops are built, was at one time the Q.N. Bank, being rented from Tilbury and Co. In 1885, Mr D. K. Maxwell brought his printing plant out, and rented it for the Winton Herald office, and in it the first issue of that journal was printed.


Sept 1908 M. Ivory tender of £320 accepted for erection of boiler. (DDG, 8 Sept. 1908, p. 8.)

1909 Patrick Donaghue mentioned in relation to the vicinity of Clifford and Margaret Streets. (Notes from Peter Cullen.)

March 1909 'On account Mr A. L. King, ½ acre, Clifford Street to Mr M. Ivory.' (DDG, 6 March 1909, p. 8.) Half an acre is 80 perches which is 2,023 sq. metres. The area of 1 Clifford Street is 1,997 square metres. The area of 3 Clifford Street is 1, 518 square metres.

June 1909 A Mr Campbell Riley retiring from the position of assessing commissioner… (Morning Bulletin, 21 June 1909, p. 4.)

Sept 1909 Letter from M. Ivory to Council re. channeling in Clifford Street. (DDG, 7 September 1909, p. 8.)

Nov. 1909 Transfer to Montague Ivory. Lots 1 to 3. 6 November 1909. (Certificate of title notes in NTAQ TOOW 1/120)

1910 Social notes of the period mention that the brides/bridesmaid dresses were designed and made at JM Harris. (For example, DDG, 28 July 1910, p. 8.)

May 1910 The Archbishop will be the guest of Mr and Mrs Campbell-Riley, 'La Chute', Clifford Street, during his stay in town.' (DDG, 13 May 1910, p. 5.)

Aug 1910 BC, 29 August 1910, p. 2.

Oct 1910 Lost between Ruthven and James Streets, parcel containing drapery. Kindly return to JM Harris (DDG, 11 October 1910, p .1.)

Dec 1910 (DDG, 28 December 1910, p. 5.)


Jan 1911 Miss Gwenda Campbell-Riley, 'La Chute', Clifford Street, is visiting… (DDG, 7 January 1911, p. 5.)

Jan 1911 '… daughter of Mrs W. H. Walsh, 'La Chute', Clifford Street… (DDG, 14 January 1911, p. 5.)

Feb 1911 Mrs John M. Harris died to-night (our Toowoomba correspondent advised last evening).The funeral will take place tomorrow (Monday). (BC, 13 February 1911, p. 8.) Died 12 February 1911.

Feb 1911 Winton and Cairns residents will regret to hear of the death of Mrs JM Harris, wife of a prosperous Toowoomba draper, who formerly was managing businesses in those towns. Mrs Harris was born in Scotland, and arrived in Queensland 30 years ago, During the past few months, she had suffered acutely from heart affection, which terminated fatally in a private hospital. (Truth, 26 February 1911, p. 4.)

Feb 1911 Headstone of Anne Kay Harris notes that she was aged 56 years, therefore born c1855. She was a native of Tillicoultry, Scotland.

Feb 1911 (Western Champion and General Advertiser… 25 February 1911, p. 12.)

March 1911 M. Ivory has been in Warwick for 12 months constructing the building for Messrs Barnes & Co., now left for home. (DDG, 27 March 1911, p. 8.)

1911 Montague Ivory constructed the 1911 Barnes & Co) store that cost £9000. Also entered in the QHR as QHR.


600956.https://environment.ehp.qld.gov.au/heritage-register/detail/?id=600956 The store opened in January 1911.

1911 First known resident in the vicinity of Clifford and Margaret Streets is Charles Riley Campbell. He is thought to have lived at 3 Clifford Street. (NB This was Charles Campbell Riley, not Riley Campbell.) (Notes from Peter Cullen.)

June 1911 PROBATES GRANTED. Probate or letters of administration have been granted in the estates of the following deceased persons- Annie Harris, late of Toowoomba, wife of John Mitchell Harris, draper, of Toowoomba, died February 12, 1911, realty £1106, personalty £195. Probate granted to John Mitchell Harris, sole executor. (DDG, 1 June 1911, p. 4.)

April 1911 Lost cheque, £3.12.6, drawer M. Ivory. Address given to finder is Clifford Street. (DDG, 13 April 1912, p. 1.)

1913-1920 Montague Ivory living vicinity of Clifford and Margaret Streets. (Notes from Peter Cullen.)

Aug 1913 Lost, Gold sleeve link, monogram 'C.C.R.' Reward CAMPBELL-RILEY, Clifford Street. (DDG, 21 August 1913, p. 1.)

Aug 1913 Wedding of Archibald Montague Ivory (son) and Annie Lambert. Ivory living in Clifford Street. (DDG, 26 August 1913, p. 6.)




Feb. 1915 Sale notice. (DDG, 27 Feb. 1915, p. 12.) Note that the area of land is 60 perches. Today 3 Clifford Street is 1,518 square metres so this is 3 Clifford Street.

Feb. 1916 KELLY-PIGOTT A wedding of interest to a large circle of friends in Brisbane and Toowoomba was celebrated at St. Patrick's Church, Toowoomba, on Tuesday, February 15. The bridegroom was Dr Arthur Kelly, of Stanthorpe, and the bride Miss Mary Pigott, of Glendalough, Toowoomba. (Queensland Figaro, 26 February 1916, p. 10.) In 1917 Dr and Mrs Kelly were in Stanthorpe. In 1918 Dr and Mrs Kelly were in Auchenflower, Brisbane.

Feb 1916 A wedding of more than usual interest was celebrated at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church this afternoon (writes our Toowoomba correspondent on February 15). The bride was Miss Mary Pigott, second daughter of Mr and Mrs M. D. Pigott, Glendalough, Toowoomba.

Feb 1917 Obituary on Kathleen Campbell Riley. Childhood at Milton House and later at 'La Chute', Kangaroo Point. (This appears to have been in Vulture Street.) Married, several years in England and at their station home, 'Clontarf' near Longreach, later several years in TWB at new 'La Chute', named after the old home. (National Leader, 2 February 1917, p. 5.)

Feb 1917 Death of Mrs Kathleen Maud Riley, wife of Mr Charles Campbell Riley. Had lived in TWB for many years…daughter of a former speaker of the Legislative Assembly…(nee Walsh)… (Queenslander, 10 February 1917, p. 6.)

Feb. 1919 New certificate of title for the whole of the land. 1415/27 (Ivory) 14 February 1919. (Certificate of title notes in NTAQ TOOW 1/120)

May 1919 Departure of Mr and Mr FH Rutledge from Yamburgan, St George. They were moving in to Toowoomba. (Occupied 3 Clifford Street, naming it Carwoola.) (Balonne Beacon, 24 May 1919, p. 2.)

April 1919 Buy your drapery and clothing from John M Harris, The Price Reducer. This is the only drapery firm in Toowoomba decent enough to give the assistants a holiday on Easter Saturday. No money grabbing about this firm. (DDG, 16 April 1919, p. 4.)


April 1919 Newspaper stated Dr Arthur Kelly had purchased ‘Mr Ivory’s fine residence on the corner of Clifford and Margaret Streets.’ (Toowoomba Historical Society notes on Cliffordene, 1 Clifford Street)

Aug. 1919 Transfer to Mary Cecelia Kelly, Bill of Mortgage to Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Ltd. £500, possibly released on 19 October 1921. (Certificate of title notes in NTAQ TOOW 1/120)

Oct 1919 …He broke his journey in this city for a few days during which time he was the guest of Dr A. and Mrs Kelly, Clifford-street. (DDG, 9 October 1919, p. 4.)

1920 Arthur F Kelly, medical practitioner living at 1 Clifford Street. (Notes from Peter Cullen.)

1920 DK Maxwell took over the Winton Herald. (Morning Bulletin, 30 March 1950, p. 8.)

April 1920 Death of John Hugh Munro on 23 April 1920. Born 1 April 1854. http://www.tr.qld.gov.au/facilities-recreation/cemeteries/deceased-search/burial/880

August 1920 Mr and Mrs JM Harris attending a Royal Ball at Toowoomba (Prince of Wales). (BC, 5 August 1920, p. 11.) (First published report of new Mr and Mrs JM Harris.)

Early 1920s JM Harris married for the second time (to Miss Melvina/Malvena Sears). Mrs Harris nearly died when first child, a son, was born. This child died. Daughter born in 1925. When they married, he bought Cliffordene from Mr Ivory, a well known Toowoomba builder. (According to other sources, Harris bought it from Dr Kelly) Ivory had built ‘the place next door'. Mr and Mrs Harris finished the work and made some alterations to suit themselves. The Ivory family then moved next door, this time in Margaret Street and later moved to a smaller home Lastonia, a bit further west on the same side of Margaret Street’. According to Rafferty’s notes, Melvina Harris was very young. Her mother died within six months of her husband. (NTAQ file TOOW 1/120, Mary Rafferty, Toowoomba Historical Society notes, p. 1.)

1921 Dr Kelly sold his practice and moved to Gympie. Cliffordene was purchased by storekeeper, John Harris. (Toowoomba Historical Society notes on Cliffordene, 1 Clifford Street)

March 1921 Business Women's Club. To help along the newly formed Business Women's Club, Mrs JM Harris has forwarded to the secretary a cheque for an amount equal to six months' subscript for each of the 41 female assistants employed by the firm of John M Harris. (DDG, 14 March 1921, p. 4.)

Oct. 1921 (DDG, 31 October 1921, p. 7.)




Nov 1921 BC, 14 November 1921, p. 11.

Jan. 1922 Transfer to John Mitchell Harris. (Certificate of title in NTAQ TOOW 1/120)

Nov 1922 One of the panes of a plate glass window in the establishment of John. M. Harris, draper, Ruthven-street, was broken during last night in an unusual manner A motor car travelling down Ruthven-street caused a small piece of blue metal, about 1 in. square, to fly from the roadway across the footpath on to the window. A large portion of the glass was splintered. The glass, which was valued at £10, was insured with the Northern Insurance Company.

1923 John M Harris living at 1 Clifford Street. (Notes from Peter Cullen.)

Oct 1923 Son visiting Mr and Mrs FH Rutledge occupying 3 Clifford Street. (Telegraph, 9 October 1923, p. 20.)

1924-29 Montague Ivory noted as an architect in Toowoomba. (Watson and McKay, A Directory of Queensland Architects to 1940, p. 114.)

Dec 1924 Montague Ivory architect for the Queensland Brewery Co. brewery. (Telegraph, 3 December 1924, p. 6.)

Jan 1925 BC, 19 January 1925, p. 14.

June 1925 Death of Frank H Rutledge, had property Moorindoorah with sons near Bollon. Died 24 June 1925. (Balonne Beacon, 25 June 1925,p. 2. )

Oct. 1927 Mrs John M. Harris and her little daughter, Neva, will leave to-day on a visit to Mrs Harris' mother in Sydney. (BC, 19 October 1927, p. 22.)

Sept 1928 The Winton Herald continued to be published by David Kay Maxwell, eldest son of David Henderson Maxwell. WH then 43 years old. Printing equipment transported to Winton per horse team in the early part of 1885. (Morning Bulletin, 27 September 1928, p. 16.)

July 1933 OBITUARY Mr John M. Harris. The death occurred at Sandgate yesterday, of Mr John Mitchell Harris, one of the best known drapers on the Downs, and well known in North Queensland, where he was engaged in the drapery business. The late Mr Harris, who was over 70 years of age, came to Australia 50 years ago from Glasgow, and went to Rockhampton, where he was employed by Mr James Stewart, draper and storekeeper. Later deceased resided at Muttaburra, Charters Towers, and Townsville, after which he went to Cairns, where he was


engaged by Messrs Burns, Philp, and Co. He arrived in Toowoomba in 1903, and took over the business of Mr G. P. Merry. The late Mr Harris went to Sandgate for a holiday about 10 days ago, and sustained a stroke. He was a member of the Queensland Turf Club, Tattersall's Turf Club, and Toowoomba Turf Club, also a life member of the Toowoomba Royal Agricultural Society. About 13 years ago he married Miss Melvina Sears, and he is survived by his widow and child. Two sisters and two nephews reside in Glasgow. (BC, 13 July 1933, p. 5.) Harris was buried from St Stephens Church, Neil Street. (Harris House notes by Beris Broderick.)

July 1933 He arrived in Toowoomba in 1903 and took over the drapery business of G. P. Merry in Ruthven-street. Mr Harris built up the business to one of the largest of its kind on the Downs. He had not been long in Toowoomba when he lost his first wife. Thirteen years ago Mr Harris married Miss Melvina/Malvena Sears. There is one child of the second marriage. Mr Harris was more than 70 years of age at the time of his death. (Central Queensland Herald, 20 July 1933, p. 23.)

July 1933 Death of John Mitchell Harris and transfer by transmission to Malvena Maud Harris and Henry Eaton Brown as devisees in trust. (Certificate of title in NTAQ TOOW 1/120)

July 1933 …PROBATE of the WILL of the above named John Mitchell Harris deceased may be granted to MALVENA MAUD HARRIS of Clifford Street Toowoomba in the State of Queensland the lawful Widow of the said deceased and HENRY EATON BROWN of Godsall Street Toowoomba aforesaid Accountant the Executors named in the said Will… (BC, 22 July 1933, p. 3.)

Sept 1933 2 September 1933 – death of Edith Margaret Ivory, born 1862. Buried Drayton and TWB Cemetery Sec CE8, Block 6 Allotment 17. (CM, 16 April 1934, p. 1 and Find a grave website.)

April 1934 Government notice: Edith Margaret Ivory, late of Toowoomba, wife of Montague Ivory, date of death 2 September 1933. (CM, 16 April 1934, p. 1.)

April 1935 Mrs P. Rutledge has returned to her home, Carwoola, Clifford Street, which has been occupied for the last two years by Mr and Mrs E. Clewitt. (CM, 9 April 1935, p. 23.)

April 1935 Probate was granted in the Supreme Court yesterday in the estate of John Mitchell Harris, late of Toowoomba, draper (realty £2,308, personality £10,126). (CM, 18 April 1935, p. 11.)

April 1935 Mrs Cowan and her daughter (Stanthorpe) have taken Mrs JM Harris's flat in Clifford Street. (CM, 20 April 1935, p. 18.)

June 1938 Mrs Langley and her daughter, Miss Molly Langley, Brisbane, are the guests of Mrs John M. Harris in Clifford Street. (Telegraph, 22 June 1938, p. 19.)

Nov. 1938 Mrs and Mrs Harold Walsh…will spend some weeks' holiday in Toowoomba. They have taken a flat at Mrs JM Harris' home in Clifford Street. (CM, 15 November 1938, p. 2.)

Nov 1942 Funeral of Charlotte Isabella Rutledge of Clifford Street (3 Clifford Street), (CM, 2 November 1942, p. 6.)


Aug. 1943 Death of Montague Ivory, 31 August 1943. Late of Margaret Street, retired contractor. (Aged 82). Buried in Drayton and TWB Cemetery Sec CE8, Block 6 Allotment 17, same site as Margaret Edith Ivory, wife. Sons were Arthur Albert Ivory, a hairdresser of Nerang Street, Southport, and Archibald Montague Ivory, a shopkeeper of Campbell Street, Toowoomba. (CM, 15 October 1943, p. 6.)

April 1946 Probate granted in the will of Montague Ivory, Toowoomba, retired contractor, personalty being sworn at £1,435. (CM, 5 April 1946, p. 4. )

Sept 1946 October 5 is the date chosen by Miss Neva Harris, Toowoomba, and Lieutenant-Colonel J. Byrne for their marriage, which is to be celebrated at St John's Cathedral, A reception will follow at Lennons. Miss Harris, who will wear a bridal gown of French silk net and a tulle veil showing touches of silver French-lace will have Miss Barbara Bruce-Smith (Toowoomba) as bridesmaid. The bride-elect, who is the only child of Mrs J. M. Harris (Toowoomba) and the late Mr Harris, worked for the United States Army in Brisbane during the war years. (Telegraph, 12 September 1946, p. 4.) (Joseph Henry Byrne)

Joseph Henry Byrne: Informal portrait of QX6010 Captain, later Lieutenant-Colonel, Joseph Henry Byrne of Redbank, Queensland. Spending seven years in the 5th Field Brigade, Australian Field Artillery before the Second World War, Byrne was already a Lieutenant with the 2/1st Anti Tank Regiment when the second AIF was formed in 1939. He was the commanding officer of B Company of the 2/31st Battalion, then known as the 70th Battalion, based Britain. After a promotion to Major in July 1941, Byrne became the commanding officer of the 7th Australian Infantry Training Brigade based in the Middle East. In 1943 he rejoined the 2/31st Battalion in Australia as its commanding officer of the 2/31st Battalion, after the battalion had taken part in the invasion of Syria in 1942, and was a garrison force in Lebanon. The 2/31st Battalion had made its way back to Australia in early 1942 in preparation for its deployment to the Pacific Theatre, where it fought along the Kokoda Track in November. After a promotion to Lieutenant-Colonel, Byrne was transferred to the 2/42nd Battalion, where he commanded it during the battles of Bougainville in December 1944. For his services during the Pacific campaign, Lieutenant-Colonel Byrne was Mentioned in despatches (MID) in 1946. After being discharged from the AIF in November 1945, Byrne returned to the Artillery Corps to command the 3rd Composite Anti Aircraft Regiment, and later, the 3rd Light Anti Aircraft/Search Light Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel Byrne ended his military career in the Reserve of Officers sometime in the 1950s. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1214848

Oct. 1946 Telegraph, 26 October 1946, p. 6.

Aug 1947 Sunday Mail, 17 August 1947, p. 10.

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Dec. 1947 (CM, 6 December 1947, p. 8.)

October 1948 Lieutenant Colonel The Honourable Justice John Harris Byrne, AO, RFD, QC (born 16 October 1948) was the Senior Judge Administrator of the Supreme Court of Queensland. Wikipedia, John Byrne (judge), accessed 29 October 2018.

July 1949 (Image) Mrs JH Byrne, Ashgrove, and bonny son, John. (Truth, 3 July 1949, p. 32.)

1950s House divided into two flats at some time, one to Margaret St and the other on the south. Rented by person who posted anonymous note to NTAQ Toowoomba Branch member.

1950s (?) John and Faye Collins lived in Harris House. Daisy Collins, mother of John Collins, was a friend of Mrs Harris and organised for them to stay there. (Email to NTAQ dated 20 August 2018.)

Feb. 1950 Henry Maxwell died aged 69 years at Sandgate. Brother of DK Maxwell. Born Sheffield. Henry Maxwell owned the Richmond Record, Hughenden Observer and merged to become Flinders Chronicle, then sold out. Lived TVE then retired to Sandgate.

Mar 1950 David Kay Maxwell retired at age 72 as sole proprietor of the Winton Herald. Retired to Yeppoon. Winton Herald closed 2 years later. (Longreach Leader, 31 March 1950, p. 19.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Officer_of_the_Order_of_Australia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_Force_Decoration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Counsel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Queensland

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April 1951 The commanding officer of the Pomona camp (Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. Byrne) said to-day that the exercises had been purposely arranged so that the men would not be able to sleep for 36 hours. (Cairns Post, 2 April 1951, p. 3.)

Oct. 1951 Death of Henry Eaton Brown. (Certificate of title in NTAQ TOOW 1/120)

Nov 1952 Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. Byrne, formerly commanding officer, No. 3 Light Anti Aircraft and Searchlight Regiment (CMF), transferred to the reserve of officers, Queensland. (CM, 26 November 1952, p. 5.)

April 1953 New Trustees, the Union Trustee Company of Australia and Malvena Maud Harris, widow. (Certificate of title in NTAQ TOOW 1/120)

Oct 1953 Funeral of Margaret Keenan, relict of late John Keenan, of 3 Clifford Street, Toowoomba. (Telegraph, 20 October 1953, p. 6.)

Nov. 1957 Mary Rafferty interviewed Mrs John M Harris, then referred to as Vena Harris. (NTAQ file TOOW 1/120, Mary Rafferty, Toowoomba Historical Society notes, p. 1.)

1970/71

Toowoomba Regional Council plans for sewer alignments, obtained by Peter Cullen.

Feb 1990 NTQ advised owner of Cliffordene that it had been entered in the NTQ interim register. (Letter dated 9 February 1990 in file NTAQ TOOW 1/120.)

Sept 1990 Death of Joseph Henry Byrne, 12 September 1990, aged 76 years. Plaque in Allambe Memorial Park. https://www.heavenaddress.com/Joseph-Henry-Byrne/1517622/




1994 1 Clifford Street was opened as Harris House by the Honourable Mr Justice John Harris Byrne RFD, the grandson of John Mitchell Harris, on 15 October 1994. (Plaque on building.)

2014 Neva Byrne died on 14 August 2014, aged 89 years. She was buried in the Toowoomba and Drayton Cemetery, interment number CE5-004-0020. Her father, John Mitchell Harris, is buried at CE5-004-0019.


Abbreviations

AWU Australian Workers' Union

BC Brisbane Courier

BNE Brisbane

CNS Cairns

DDG Darling Downs Gazette

NTAQ National Trust of Australia (Queensland)

PAX passenger

TOOW National Trust heritage register abbreviation for places in the Toowoomba Regional Council

TWB Toowoomba


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