Tourist attraction
Old Government House and William Robinson Gallery
Two-storey sandstone house built by the same man who owned the quarry supplying its stone.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Old Government House in Brisbane follows Joshua Jeays, the local builder who won the tender to raise Queensland's first government house in eighteen sixty, using stone from a quarry he happened to own himself. You will hear how sandstone, volcanic porphyry, cast iron and native timber came together under his contract, and what that arrangement meant for a brand new colony short on money and long on ambition. It is a story about who profits when the builder is also the supplier.
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