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MacArthur Museum Brisbane
Heritage office tower turned WWII Pacific command post, its steel frame bolted rather than riveted.
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About this audio guide
This guide to MacArthur Chambers in Brisbane follows the tradespeople who raised the building in the early nineteen-thirties, from the ironworkers who gambled on an untested construction method to the AMP Society clerks who filled its offices for the next decade. It then turns to the winter of nineteen forty-two, when military orders emptied those same desks within weeks and a new kind of staff moved in. You will hear whose daily grind kept the building running through both eras. Best heard looking up at the granite base from Edward Street.
This audio guide was created using AI.