Shell House, Brisbane
Shell House is a heritage-listed building at 301 Ann Street in the Brisbane central business district, Queensland, Australia.[1] It was entered in the Register of the National Estate on 30 May 1995, when it was called the CPS Credit Society Centre.[2]
History
[edit]Designed by Brisbane architects Hall & Phillips (1929–1948),[3] it opened in 1933 as an office building for the Shell company. It was part of a series of state offices built at that time by Shell: Shell House Adelaide in 1932, followed by Brisbane and Perth, Shell Corner in Melbourne in 1933, and at Wynyard Square in Sydney in 1938.[4]
To the left of Shell House, which features extensive Art Deco elements, is the neoclassical Masonic Temple (1930), on its right the neo-Romanesque St Andrew's Uniting Church (1905).[5] Before Shell House, the site was home to a stonemason.[6]
The building – consisting of seven storeys and a basement, serviced by three lifts and a mail chute – was opened by the Deputy Premier of Queensland and Lands Minister, Percy Pease, and Hugh M. Russell MLA, president of the Brisbane Chamber of Commerce.[7] The façade is from locally produced granite and Benedict stone (a mixture of cement and Brisbane tuff, supplied by the nearby Benedict Stone factory in Bowen Hills.[8] The Art Deco features of Shell House include stylised shell decoration on the exterior of the building, marble wall panelling and fluted pilasters in the foyer, an elegant staircase with wrought iron balustrade, an embellished plastered ceiling, and lifts with coloured glass doors with a chevron design.[9]
In 1997, the building was converted to a hotel and apartment building, Rothbury on Ann, consisting of about 60 one- and two-bedroom suites, operated by the Ultiqa group.[10]
In 1989, Shell House was located for a while at 159 Coronation Drive, Milton.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ "Shell House (former)". Brisbane Heritage Register. Retrieved 28 July 2025.
- ^ "CPS Credit Society Centre, 301–311 Ann St, Brisbane City, QLD, Australia" Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Register of the National Estate
- ^ Thomas Ramsay Hall (1879–1950), stepbrother of Francis Richard Hall ("Hall, Francis Richard" Archived 27 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine by Janet Hogan, in Australian Dictionary of Biography); Lionel Blyth[e]wood Phillips
- ^ "Making Tracks" in ...from kero tins to LNG tankers... Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, p. 17, Melbourne 2001
- ^ "Shell House". Your Brisbane:Past and Present. Archived from the original on 26 December 2014.
- ^ "St Andrew's Uniting Church, corner Creek St & Ann St"". Your Brisbane: Past and Present. Archived from the original on 26 December 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
- ^ Shell Building, Brisbane, The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 June 1933 (via National Library of Australia)
- ^ "Newspaper House (entry 600150)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
- ^ Wilson, Kimberley, ed. (2015). Brisbane Art Deco: Stories of our Built Heritage. Brisbane, Australia: Jubilee Studio. ISBN 9780646936598.
- ^ Rothbury Hotel
- ^ "Shell House – Coronation Drive – Milton". Archived from the original on 21 May 2015. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
External links
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