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| View Original: | StateLibQld 1 195699 Looking from the house along the drive of Rakeevan, at Graceville, 1931.jpg (1000x594) | |||
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| Keywords: StateLibQld 1 195699 Looking from the house along the drive of Rakeevan, at Graceville, 1931.jpg en Looking from the house along the drive of Rakeevan at Graceville 1931 Rakeevan is a two-storeyed rendered brick house with a weatherboard stables/coach-house overlooking the Brisbane River Originally called Verney Beth-Eden was erected in 1888 for newspaper proprietor Charles Hardie Buzacott The architect was Richard Gailey who in 1884 had designed the Courier Building for Buzacott In 1895 John Ferguson MLA a Rockhampton parliamentarian and a major shareholder in the Mt Morgan Mine company purchased the property which became the home of his daughter and son-in-law Mr A H Chambers who was the manager of the Union Bank and changed the name of the house to Rakeevan after his family home in Ireland 1931 handle 10462/deriv/114728 Copied and digitised from an image appearing in The Queenslander 17 September 1931 p 28 Contributor s Queenslander PD-Australia StateLibQld-License Tennis courts in Queensland 1931 in Brisbane Black and white photographs Houses in Graceville Queensland Images from The Queenslander Richard Gailey buildings Beth-Eden Rakeevan | ||||
