Eye on Indooroopilly Heritage Trail

The Eye on Indooroopilly Heritage Trail takes you on a journey through a range of sites and events that have shaped Indooroopilly's history, including:

early European settlement
construction of the Albert and Walter Taylor Bridges
war-time activity during World War II
the historic commercial centre along Station Road.

You can download:

Eye on Indooroopilly Heritage Trail map and table

There are 17 points of interest along the Eye on Indooroopilly Heritage Trail. The trail begins at the Indooroopilly War Memorial in Keating Park, to the Church of the Holy Family and down to Lambert Road. The trail then crosses the rail line and heads up Station Road to end at the Indooroopilly Shopping Centre.

For more information about each point of interest, download the Eye on Indooroopilly Heritage Trail brochure in your preferred format. The brochure map includes additional information such as the location of public transport, public toilets and access for people with limited mobility (by way of gradient ranges). Some sections of this 2.7 kilometre trail are steep and may not be accessible for people with limited mobility.

Use the Google map and information boxes to navigate the heritage trail, or alternatively use the heritage trail table which includes the point of interest number, name, address and description. The start point of the trail (on the map) is marked with a 'person' icon.

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This table includes information on each point of interest along the Indooroopilly Heritage Trail including point of interest number, name, address and description.
Number	Name	Address	Description
1.	War Memorial - Keating Park	5 Belgrave Road	The War Memorial was unveiled in February 1921 and was originally on the corner of Westminster and Station Roads.
2.	Church of the Holy Family	27 Ward Street	This striking church was built between 1961 and 1963 and is one of Australia’s finest examples of Modernist architecture.
3.	Church of the Holy Family School	27 Ward Street	Built in 1926, this was Indooroopilly’s first Catholic church and school.
4.	Warranoke	47 Fairley Street	Once a grand 1880s residence, Warranoke became the first Brigidine convent in Brisbane in the early 1920s.
5.	St Andrew's Church Hall	72 Lambert Road	This is one of Indooroopilly’s most beautiful buildings and was built as an Anglican church hall in the 1880s.
6.	Henry Hunter's residence	188 Clarence Road	When this house was built in 1888 for successful architect, Henry Hunter, the property stretched all the way to Lambert Road.
7.	Tighnabruaich	203 Clarence Road	The finely decorated, timber villa is one of Brisbane’s loveliest houses from the 1880s.
8.	Witton Barracks	9 Lambert Road	During World War II, these barracks played a vital role in military intelligence.
9.	Albert Bridge		This is the second Albert Bridge and was built after the 1893 flood destroyed the first one.
10.	Cross-river ferry		From as early as the 1870s, passengers, horses, carriages and goods were transported between Chelmer and Indooroopilly by ferry.
11.	Walter Taylor Bridge		First called the Indooroopilly Bridge, it was designed and built by Walter Taylor and completed in 1936.
12.	The Stamford Hotel	125 Conan Street	The Indooroopilly Hotel was first known as the Stamford Hotel and was built in 1884.
13.	Keating House	10 Westminister Road	Keating House was built in the 1890s and is one of Indooroopilly’s most treasured and well-recognised historic houses.
14.	Stamford Hall	15 Station Street	On the corner of Westminster and Station Roads, once stood the centre for Indooroopilly residents’ social life, the Stamford Hall, that was built in 1899.
15.	Station Road		Before Indooroopilly Shopping Centre was built, this stretch of Station Road was the suburb’s commercial centre.
16.	Indooroopilly Uniting Church	80 Station Road	This beautiful brick church was built in 1917 as the Anzac Memorial Methodist Church.
17.	Indooroopilly Shopping Centre	93 Station Road	When first opened in 1970, Indooroopilly Shoppingtown, as it was first called, was proclaimed to be the largest in the Southern Hemisphere at the time.

Last updated: 9 January 2023

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