Queensland - Brisbane Commissariat Store

Commissariat Store, Brisbane



Here it is, the oldest* building in Brisbane. *Okay, the oldest occupied building, apparently. I didn't look too much into it. But the bottom 2 storeys date to 1829 and are apparently one of only two intact structures from the penal colony era of Queensland. For that matter, the thing was built by convict labour to serve as the commissariat for the Moreton Bay Penal Colony, and it's one of four commissariat structures left in Australia. (Not said: how many there ever were.)


Some details before we get inside.


I forget what the significance of this stone is, but it appears to show some evidence of dynamiting that would have been used to quarry.


This is an 1884 postbox for the Australia Post.


The store was completed during the reign of Georgius Rex, a.k.a. King George IV.


More views of the historic exterior and interior, what hasn't been bastardised by wooden floors and museum finishes. These walls are 2 feet thick, quarried locally at Kangaroo Point, and yes, quarrying was done by convict labour.

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