Shopping mall
Brisbane Arcade
Grand nineteen twenties shopping arcade with terrazzo stairs, wrought balustrades and stained glass between two city streets.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Brisbane Arcade traces the fortune behind it back to Patrick Mayne, a Queen Street butcher who built a property empire in the eighteen fifties, and to a rumor about how he came by his first money that followed him the rest of his life. It follows his children, James and Mary Mayne, from that inheritance to the grand arcade they raised on this stretch of Queen Street in nineteen twenty-four, and on to the University of Queensland itself. Look up at the dado paneling and stained glass as you walk through, original to the nineteen twenties fit-out.
This audio guide was created using AI.