What Makes the Queenslander so Distinctive?

The Queensland image, Glenalvin, Beatrice Terrace, Ascot, built around 1890 (photographer unknown)(Queensland Museum)

The Queensland house represents a distinctive style of architecture. It also speaks more eloquently than almost anything else about this State's distinctive lifestyle.

Queensland does not have one particular type of housing. However, it does have a dominant tradition of timber building which evolved continuously from the rude timber hut of early settlement to the multi-gabled bungalow of the 1930s and beyond.

Unlike other states, Queensland was characterised by a distinctive, continuous and dominant tradition of building until the Second World War.