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You are here: Home / History of Toonarbin Main Hall Main Hall ‘Toonarbin’ is one of Brisbane’s oldest homes. Built in the 1860’s it was first home to three generations of Captain Henry O’Reilly’s family until it was sold to the Catholic Church in the 1920’s. It became a Convent for the next 80 years, undergoing substantial modification including the red brick cladding that you see today around the original Georgian mansion. The Convent was then sold by the Catholic Church. On the brink of being gutted and modernized, it was bought in 2007 by the present owners. Over the next five years they undertook a painstaking restoration of the interior of the building back to its original magnificent form. Today it is a grand family home, much like it was in Brisbane’s early days. A further delight for visitors is the owners’ superb collection of Australian art, ranging from early Charles Conder, Arthur Streeton, through to Brett Whiteley and Margaret Olley, with many artists in between, framed beautifully in this historic home. Source: flyingarts.org.au/history-of-toonarbin/#:~:text='Toonarbi....

"Having built his house Montpelier on a hill he named after himself -‘O’Reilly’s Hill’ (later Bowen Hills) - early settler and ASN shipping firm man Captain O’Reilly moved across the river and acquired another hilly bushland site from architect Benjamin Backhouse. Here he built this imposing yet austere multi-chimneyed two storey mansion ‘Toonarbin’, which at the time looked at odds with its secluded bushy site. In 1926 it was purchased by the religious real estate king of Brisbane, Archbishop Duhig, as part of his ever growing Catholic empire and converted to a convent for the Sisters of Mercy. It operated as a convent until 1995 and some years later was bought by a private owner who meticulously restored it to its past glory." Source: homesofbrisbane.blogspot.com/2021/02/toonarbin-more-than-...

1927 Campbellford Ontario. 50th Anniversary of Charles and Charlotte Long (nee:Rosenplot / Rosenblath. Back: ?,?, Mrs. Bates, Kitty Long, Helen Long, Jane "Annie" (nee:Villneff) and Adolphus "Archie" Rosenblath, Charlie Rosenplot / Rosenblath, Mrs.Sweet, Augustus "Gus" Rosenplot / Rosenblath, Reverend Daniels, Billy Bakes, Maggie Long,Monica Blute, Violet Rosenplot / Rosenblath,John Long, Everett Sweet, Pearl Lewis, Ethel Ibey,Delbert Rosenplot / Rosenblath, Maggie Malhiot, Kate Rosenplot / Rosenblath Second Row:Horace Malhoit, John Long, Clarence Long, Arthur Long, Bennett Ibey, Mrs.Charlotte Long (nee:Rosenplot / Rosenblath) and her husbandCharles Theodore Long, Mortimor Long, Thornton Ibey, Marshall Lewis, Bert Smith, Staunton Archer, Teddy Blute, Earl Godden Front: Bernard Ibey, Clarence Sweet, Marcella Lewis, Vonnie Sweet, Myrtle Long,Willie Malhiot, Patricia Long, Fred Ibey, Eldon Ibey.

Love the home made fishing tackle!

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Probably the bridge near the lake entrance. You might still see something like this nowadays.