Indooroopilly House
My daughter took this photo when we got lost trying to find the shopping centre!
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- Neeny
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It's sad isn't it when the purchaser of such a great property just won't do anything to restore it. It looks like they're just waiting for the termites to let go hands so the whole thing falls down. I realise it would take an awful lot of money to restore it and the person (developer?) who spent an equally awful lot of money to purchase it probably has bigger plans for the site in order to recoup some of that, but it's one of the few remaining beautiful Brisbane mansions and would be such a shame if it went the way of the Sinnamon Road Precinct in Sinnamon Park.
Read the newspaper people. A big corporation has bought it and they are waiting for it to fall into ruin so they can build another ugly box.
This is the heritage listed Keating Residence on the corner of Coonan Street Indooroopilly. It has been vacant since 1999.
It's owners are the first to be served with a maintenance notice by the government under a new law introduced in an attempt to prevent "demolition by neglect".
We lose too much of our unique heritage buildings in this way, it's great that at least something is being done to try to prevent it.
This is an elegant building that should be recognized as an integral part of the community.
My suggestion is that the current Brisbane City Library in Indooroopilly Shopping Town could be expanded to the Keating building, perhaps to provide access to a new media collection.
It is very accessible from Indooroopilly Station and to the students who use it as a hub, and so its focus could be to target the literacy needs of the younger generation.
I'm not very sure but i saw it last week that a renovation or maybe refurbishment was in progress for that house. Maybe the photo was taken several months ago.
It's position should make it a good landmark especially for new people in town (like me :LOL:) and tourists as well.
It's a beautiful house in a great Location. Sooner or later they'll do something great with it. Hopefully restore it... Turn it into a Mary Ryans or something. Someone should run a competition on what could be done with it.