Milton House, Milton
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| Location | 50 McDougall Street, Milton, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°28′18″S 153°00′21″E / 27.4717°S 153.0058°ECoordinates: 27°28′18″S 153°00′21″E / 27.4717°S 153.0058°E |
| Design period | 1840s - 1860s (mid-19th century) |
| Built | c. 1852 - 1922 |
| Architectural style(s) | Colonial Georgian |
| Official name: Milton House | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600253 |
| Significant period | 1850s-1860s, 1920s (fabric) 1850s-1880s |
| Significant components | residential accommodation - main house, views from, cellar, views to |
 Location of Milton House in Queensland
Location of Milton House in Queensland
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Milton House is a heritage-listed villa at 50 McDougall Street, Milton, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from c. 1852. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
Milton House was erected in 1852 or 1853 for retired Queen Street chemist Ambrose Eldridge. It was the first substantial house in the area and soon a local landmark, being prominent in early views of Brisbane. It was the base for Eldridge's experimental farming when the Moreton Bay region was struggling to establish itself, and later for John Frederick McDougall's considerable pastoral holdings in the area.
Ambrose Eldridge was a Sydney chemist who arrived in Moreton Bay in late July 1847 to work in John Taggart's Medical Hall, a chemist shop in Queen Street. Taggart sold the business to Eldridge, who took over from 1 October 1849, and developed the business as a chemist, druggist, oilman, and grocer.
In the late 1840s and 1850s, Eldridge adopted an active and enthusiastic role in the development of Brisbane and Queensland. He was prominent in the Separation movement and served on a wide variety of local committees (for most of which he was a founding member), including those of the Hospital, the proposed Brisbane Market (1851), the Moreton Bay Steam Navigation Company, the Moreton Bay Horticultural Society, the Brisbane Exchange, the Northern Districts Agricultural and Pastoral Association, the Moreton Bay Immigration and Land Company (first chairman of directors in 1855-56), and the Moreton Bay Building Society, which was dissolved in 1854 to re-emerge as the Moreton Bay Permanent Investment and Building Society in 1855. He was active in promoting local issues such as a bridge over Breakfast Creek, a committee to communicate between the electors of Moreton Bay and their representative in the New South Wales Legislative Council in Sydney, a survey of the Brisbane River entrance and bar, direct emigration to Moreton Bay, government funding to churches, and regularly subscribed to rewards for the discovery of gold in the Moreton and Darling Downs districts. He was a prominent member of St John's Anglican Church, and an active participant in the Brisbane School of Arts and Sciences and the Moreton Bay Musical Society. During the early 1850s his business flourished and he acquired a number of Brisbane town and suburban allotments.
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