Old Ipswich Town Hall is a heritage-listed former town hall at 116 Brisbane Street, Ipswich, City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by James Percy Owen Cowlishaw and built from 1861 to 1879. It is also known as Mechanics School of Arts and the School of Arts. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
Old Ipswich Town Hall, 2017 (note the blank clock face)
Post Office, Town Hall and Bank of Australasia (left to right), circa 1902, with clock faces on the town hall
Town Hall (Ipswich)
Ipswich is a city in South East Queensland, Australia. Situated on the Bremer River, it is approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) west of the Brisbane central business district. The city is renowned for its architectural, natural and cultural heritage. Ipswich preserves and operates from many of its historical buildings, with more than 6000 heritage-listed sites and over 500 parks. Ipswich was founded in 1827 as a mining settlement. The suburb of the same name is its central business district. In the 2021 census, the population of the urban area of Ipswich was 115,913 people.
Ipswich from Cunninghams Knoll
Waterfield; an early West Ipswich residence pictured in 1868
A view of Ipswich in 1887
Ipswich Railway Station in 1865
