Eidsvold Homestead
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Eidsvold Homestead, 2009
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| Location | Eidsvold Road, Eidsvold, North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 25°22′37″S 151°04′55″E / 25.3769°S 151.0819°ECoordinates: 25°22′37″S 151°04′55″E / 25.3769°S 151.0819°E |
| Design period | 1840s - 1860s (mid-19th century) |
| Built | 1850 |
| Official name: Eidsvold Homestead | |
| Type | state heritage (built, landscape) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600489 |
| Significant period | 1850s (historical) 1850s (slab hut fabric) 1880s-1920s (second house fabric) 1967 (1967 house fab |
| Significant components | residential accommodation - main house, store/s / storeroom / storehouse, garden/grounds, driveway, tennis court, hut/shack, tank stand |
 Location of Eidsvold Homestead in Queensland
Location of Eidsvold Homestead in Queensland
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Eidsvold Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead at Eidsvold Road, Eidsvold, North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1850. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
Eidsvold Homestead established in 1850 by the Archer family, a well-known family of early Queensland pastoralist explorers. It is one of the earliest homesteads in Queensland and one of the first homesteads in the Burnett region. The homestead complex is an agglomeration of many built structures of disparate architectural styles and from different eras is typical of the way in which homesteads evolved.
The original slab hut which may date to 1850, is a particularly good example of the earliest type of station housing. It may have been built by the Archers themselves.
A "second" home, forming part of a complex of several buildings commenced in the late nineteenth century, is an example of the housing type that prevailed, at the time, on more established properties in Western Queensland. It has a central core of rooms that opens to wide verandas via French doors. Vine covered trellises extend the veranda roof to provide added shade and coolness.
Francis Ivory, a member of the Queensland Legislative Council, resided on the property in this late 19th century home. The first golf known to be played in Queensland involved Francis Ivory and his brother Alexander Ivory, who laid out a few holes on the property in the 1880s.
A detached building was erected along this building's eastern veranda between the first and second world wars. It is built in the popular Queensland Bungalow style of the 1920s and 1930s.
The property is also significant as the station on which the well-known and successful Santa-Gertrudis breed of cattle was first introduced to Australia in 1955.
Finally, the architect-designed 1967 homestead is a product of the more prosperous later years of the station. It is a good example of the work of prominent Queensland-born architect, Guildford Bell.
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