
National Trust Of Queensland Ground Floor, 91-95 William Street, Brisbane GPO Box 538 Brisbane 4001 Tel: (07) 3229 1788 • Fax: (07) 3229 0146 Email: info@nationaltrustqld.org Web: www.nationaltrustqld.org
Brennan & Geraghty’s Store 64 Lennox Street, Maryborough Tel: (07) 4121 2250 Open: daily 10am–3pm
One family operated this large timber grocery store from 1871–1972. The interior is very intact and is typical of many all-purpose stores once located throughout Queensland.
Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary Gold Coast Highway, Currumbin Tel: (07) 5534 1266 Open: daily 8am–5pm
Currumbin Sanctuary is home to more than 1250 native birds and animals, many of them endangered. Visitors can watch the twice daily feeding of masses of wild multi-coloured lorikeets that fly into the Sanctuary seeking supplementary meals.
James Cook Museum Cnr of Helen and Furneaux Streets, Cooktown Tel: (07) 4069 5386 Open: daily 9.30am–4pm
The museum, erected in 1887–89, is located in the former convent of St Mary. The museum’s collection includes an Endeavour cannon and an anchor, jettisoned by Captain Cook when his barque ran aground on the Endeavour Reef in 1770.
National Trust Heritage Centre 5 Castling Street, Townsville Tel: (07) 4771 5873 Open: Wed 10am–2pm, weekends 1–4pm. Groups by appointment.

The historic houses complex displays, on one site, three typical North Queensland timber houses – a simple miner’s cottage of 1884, a villa residence of 1888 and a farmhouse of 1921.
Royal Bull’s Head Inn Brisbane Street, Drayton (Toowoomba) Tel: (07) 4630 1869 Open: Sat–Sun 11am–3pm
Built in 1847, and extended in 1859, the Bull’s Head Inn is an unusual timber and brick log construction. The Museum is decorated according to evidence of finishes from the 1870s.
Stock Exchange Mosman Street, Charters Towers Tel: (07) 4787 4161 Open: daily 8.30am–1pm & 2–4pm, weekends 9am–3pm
The Stock Exchange, built (c.1888) as The Royal Arcade, is a grand masonry building on the main street of Charters Towers.
Temple of Hou Wang & Museum Herberton Road, Atherton Tel: (07) 4091 6945 Open: daily 10am–4pm
The temple of Hou Wang, opened in 1903, with its imported Chinese carvings and decorations was built in traditional Chinese design using the Queensland method of timber and tin.
Tent House Fourth Avenue Motor Inn, Fourth Avenue, Mount Isa Tel: (07) 4743 3853 Open: by appointment.
The Tent House is a timber-framed house with a canvas roof under a free-standing galvanised iron roof. This environmental adaptation was once common in Mount Isa for miners’ accommodation.
Wolston House 349 Grindle Road, Wacol (Brisbane) Tel: (07) 3271 1734 Open: weekends 11am–4pm Groups by appointment during the week.
Wolston House is an early stone and brick, two-storey farmhouse built in 1852 but substantially extended in the 1860s.
Zara Clarke Museum Mosman Street, Charters Towers Tel: (07) 4787 4161 Open: daily 10am–3pm
The Museum is housed in a late nineteenth century commercial building of a size unusual in rural Queensland. The collection includes early transport vehicles, documents and domestic items.
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