palace

The Hippodrome opened on the 2nd of November 1907.

Designed by Bertie Crewe.

Niall McAuley While I see you there, this one and the one of the Palace blow any theory about basing dates on Lawrence negative numbers out of the water. The Palace photo is Lawrence Royal 8983, and there's nary a sign of the Hippodrome. This one is Lawrence Royal 8383 - and the Hippodrome is built and up and running...

I see three references to the Van Host Trio in the Irish Times from 1907 to 1910, on the 12th, 15th and 17th of July 1908.

Notice the vanishing horse and man on the right, clearly the scene was posed for French's camera.

The People’s Palace was originally built as one of several temperance hotels in Australia and New Zealand by the Salvation Army, a Christian church and charitable organisation, to provide comfortable accommodation where alcohol was prohibited. The Salvation Army bought the Brisbane site, at the corner of Ann and Edward Streets in 1908, and assigned its in-house architect, Colonel Saunders, to design the hotel. When completed in 1911 the People's Palace was a substantial brick building. The building included three floors, basement, a prominent corner tower, and balconies overlooking the two streets. Three additional floors were added year or two later. The Salvation Army maintained operation into the 1970's when it leased the premises to a commercial hotel operator. Around 1985 the church adapted parts of the building to serve as offices for its social services. In 1996 the church sold the People's Palace building to the present owner, which is currently being leased and operated as a backpacker hostel. Source: kirk.studio/news/kirk-designs-new-life-into-brisbane-cbds...

The concept of temperance hotels grew out of the temperance movement and the Peoples Palace was the first of its type in Queensland. No alcohol, gambling or "other evils" were permitted on the premises.[1][4] Although not quite complete, the hotel was decorated with bright flags and hangings to celebrate Coronation Day (22 June 1911), the coronation of King George V.[5] The hotel was officially opened on 27 June 1911.[6][7][8] It was under the control of Major Wilson assisted by Ensign John McLean.[9] It was popular with travellers to Brisbane due to its convenient location to the Brisbane's Central railway station. The building also was the Queensland headquarters for the Social Wing of the Salvation Army.[3] In 1913 extensions were undertaken which involved adding an extra two storeys.[1] This created a building of such height that special fire safety measured were imposed.[10] Despite this, many years later, to meet modern fire standards, a set of brick fire stairs had to be added. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Palace,_Brisbane#:~:text...