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Indooroopilly (/ ˌ ɪ n d r ə ˈ p ɪ l i / IN-drə-PIL-ee) is a riverside suburb 7.8 kilometres (4.8 mi) south-west of the Brisbane CBD, Queensland, Australia. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In the 2021 census , Indooroopilly had a population of 13,622 people.
The University of Queensland leased the site in 1951, totalling 6 hectares for its Department of Mining. The property was owned by Brisbane City Council, who sold it to the Queensland government. In 1956, the state government provided to mine site to the University granting it permanent and exclusive surface and underground rights.
Three brick and timber cell blocks (c. 1942-1943), and their related former exercise yard, located at 9 Lambert Street, Indooroopilly, Brisbane, are the last surviving purpose-built elements of the Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre, which was the headquarters of the Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) from late 1942 to mid-1945.
The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history. The residence at 10-12 Westminster Road was constructed in the late 1890s and demonstrates the development of Indooroopilly at this time when a number of substantial, architect designed residences were built on large allotments. [1]
St Andrews Church Hall is a heritage-listed former church and now church hall at 72 Lambert Road, Indooroopilly, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.It was designed by John Hingeston Buckeridge and built from 1889 to c. 1930 by P Christensen.
The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history. Tighnabruaich is a large, two-storeyed timber residence constructed around 1889 for Henry Stanley, Chief Engineer for Railways in Queensland, to a design by his brother, the former Colonial Architect Francis Stanley.
The Walter Taylor Bridge is a heritage-listed suspension bridge crossing the Brisbane River between Indooroopilly and Chelmer in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is shared by motor traffic and pedestrians and is the only habitable bridge in the Southern Hemisphere. [2] It was originally known as the Indooroopilly Toll Bridge. [3]
Toowong Division was one of the original divisions created on 11 November 1879 under the Divisional Boards Act of 1879. [1] On 20 May 1880, the more populated area of the district was proclaimed as the Shire of Toowong, with the remaining part of the Toowong Division being renamed Indooroopilly Division on 2 June 1880.