Elina Emily Mottram was an England-born architect trained in Brisbane. She was Queensland’s first and longest practicing female architect, practicing and establishing her own business in Brisbane from
Scott Street Flats, viewed from the river bank below, 2015
Masonic Temple (1930) Longreach, QLD
Brisbane Central Technical College is a heritage-listed technical college at 2 George Street, Brisbane City, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1911 to 1956. It became the Quee
Elina Mottram
…parents and started school at Nundah State School. After finishing her studies at the state school, Mottram then undertook studies in Architecture at the Brisbane Central Technical College while simultaneously employed by architect Francis Richard Hall of Brisbane during the city’s 1920s construction boom. She graduated with a diploma in…
Former Brisbane Central Technical College, 2008
Crest of the Central Technical College, Brisbane, adopted circa 1906
A block (now QUT A block), 1999