toowoomba

The original school was opened on 6 September 1869 and was known as North National School or Mort Estate State School. The population of Toowoomba at the time was 3000. Toowoomba North Boys School opened with an enrolment of 141 boys and Toowoomba North Girls and Infants School with an enrolment of 113 students were both housed in a brick building facing Mort Street. In 1938 the present brick building was constructed and both boys' and girls' schools were amalgamated to form Toowoomba North State School. The school is one of the oldest schools on the Darling Downs and later it was to become one of the largest. Toowoomba North State School has many proud traditions and fine students have attended over the years. It is certain that many of those first pupils and their descendants have helped make Toowoomba the city it is today and others have gone on to help our country prosper. Source: toowoombanorthss.eq.edu.au/our-school/history

The house name is on the right hand side of the front door. This house is also located next to a two story Queenslander on the left. Both the subject house and house to the right have brick chimneys.

And on the right it seems like it is a near replica

Founded in 1908, Glennie has operated on its present site on the west side of the City of Toowoomba since 1910. The Glennie School, so named, perpetuates the work of Archdeacon Benjamin Glennie, who first came to the Darling Downs in 1848 before the State of Queensland was established in 1859. Benjamin Glennie (1812–1900) spent much of his life serving the spiritual needs of residents on the Darling Downs. He was also very concerned that educational facilities should be provided for the children of settlers. Canon Glennie, as he then was, collected money where he could and sold vegetables he grew in his own garden. The money he acquired was given to the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane and used in 1898 to acquire the land on which the School now stands. On 27 July 1908, Grace and Margaret Lawrance were invited to become the first co-principals when the Diocese of Brisbane acquired their school, St Alban’s College which had been established in the home of Mrs Cruise in Russell Street. Following Canon Glennie’s death, an endowment fund was established and became known as the Glennie Memorial School Fund. Under this title, the endowment fund attracted considerable public support and became the nucleus of the monies that built the ‘Glennie Memorial School’. The original school building was dedicated on 10 August 1910 on its present site. It remains a fine example of the architecture of H J Marks whose designs can be found in a number of historic buildings in Toowoomba. Source: www.glennie.qld.edu.au/about-us/glennie-s-history/