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St Mary's Roman Catholic Church was constructed in several stages and incorporates the first permanent Roman Catholic church in Maryborough started in 1869 to a design of Charles Tiffin. The building was enlarged in two major stages of construction, the first in 1884-5 to the design of FDG Stanley and then in 1936 to the design of local architect, POE Hawkes.[2] St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, as it became known, was completed and opened at a service conducted by Father Tissot on 4 February 1872. The building was constructed by local contractors G Smith and J Thomas under the supervision of WN Davidson. When completed, the church was described as Early English and of brick with stone quoining and detailing. The building had a steeply pitched gabled roof clad with shingles. Side aisles extended the length of the four-bay nave and these were lined with double lancets. The plan incorporated a small porch, chancel, and two sacristies. Father Tissot landscaped the grounds surrounding the church and provided the chancel screen and other timber paneling carved by himself. He is thought to have been involved with the design of the high altar and the carved timber canopy, or Baldacchino above the altar. Provision was made in the design for the extension of the church at a later date.[2] Source: en.wikipedia.org/?curid=40038147

Maryborough railway station is a heritage-listed railway station at Lennox Street, Maryborough, Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It is on the North Coast line serving the city of Maryborough. It was designed by the Chief Engineer of the Queensland Railways Department and built from 1878 to 1890 by John Roddam & John Walker. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. Maryborough railway station opened in 1878 when an eight-kilometer branch into Maryborough was built as part of the North Coast line. It was built as a terminal station.[5] Beyond the station, the line continued to service the Walkers Limited (now Downer Rail) railway workshops and Mary River wharf. An air raid shelter was built into the station during World War II for the protection of the staff in case an air raid occurred. The station is a single-storeyed, timber-framed building, set at ground level. It is clad in chamferboards and has a gabled corrugated iron roof. The rear roof extends over the original station platform and is supported at its outer edge by unusual tapered stop-chamfered timber posts with octagonal capitals and strut brackets. The main front entrance consists of a projecting gabled portico supported on pairs of timber posts and features a timber arch and gable infill. A central passageway leads through the station to the main platform behind the building. There are skillion-roofed front verandahs, partly enclosed on the southwest side, either side of the portico. These verandahs have stop-chamfered posts and timber strut brackets that match those of the station platform. There is an extension at the southwest end of the station with skillion-roofed structures and a bracketed hood over the front windows. A separate timber-framed ladies waiting room and toilets with a gabled roof adjoin the north-east end of the station building. This has a domestic-scaled post-supported awning linked to the rear station platform. There are new male toilets in the former cloakroom. A World War I railways honor board is located at the rear of the station beside the ticket office. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryborough_railway_station,_Queens...

Maryborough Base Hospital is a heritage-listed hospital at Walker Street, Maryborough, Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Queensland Colonial Architect John James Clark and built in 1887 by Robert Taylor. It is also known as Maryborough General Hospital. The current site of the Maryborough Hospital, which is the fourth hospital site, was established in 1887 when a complex of brick buildings was constructed to the design of Queensland Colonial Architect John James Clark. The hospital site has experienced many phases of development, most obviously in the late 1920s, the late 1930s, and in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Many of the individual buildings, dating from both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, are of cultural heritage significance. In 1854 a hospital had been established in Maryborough in Fort Street, and prior to this the sick and invalids were treated at home by a few medical practitioners who lived in the town. By 1859 a Committee of Management had established another hospital, near the new center of the town, at the corner of Ferry and Albert Streets, but was moved in 1863 to a site on the corner of Lennox and Walker Streets. In 1864 the hospital moved to its first purpose-built building on Lennox Street, near the corner of Sussex Street. A substantial two-storeyed brick building was constructed and a wing was added to this in 1865. In 1876 further additions were made to this site. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryborough_Base_Hospital#:~:text=M...