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the medical and allied professions is sustained to this day. Montpelier, purpose-built in 1910 as a large boarding/guest house or private hotel, demonstrates the continued popularity of
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window. It has a panelled, timber door with decorative coloured glass fanlight and breezeway assembly. The double hung sash windows have a single large pane of glass at the base of the window frame and twelve panes of small glass in the upper section of the frame. The
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are located in the lounges and the dining room. A kitchen and offices are located to the rear of
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on the site of an earlier three-storey masonry building, also known as Montpelier (on the left/west). Claude William Chambers was the architect of both the Green House and Montpelier. The buildings became the United Service Club premises in 1947. Prior to this date, both the existing and earlier
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the second floor for residential rooms, and the third floor for three billiard rooms, card room and bathing facilities. All levels had wide verandahs facing the city that provided pleasant places to sit on hot summer evenings. The verandahs were later enclosed on the two upper levels.
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on each level. The back portion of the building is finished in smooth stucco and has many original sash windows. A wing continues from the north east corner of the building, while a separate, small service building is located on the north-west corner of Montpelier.
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in February 1864, coinciding with the construction of the original Montpelier. William Davies purchased the property in 1897 and it remained in the Davies family until purchased by the United Service Club in 1946.
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275:club house
164:Designated
81:27°27′53″S
65:Queensland
586:balusters
488:spandrels
125:Architect
120:1906–1947
894:archived
876:archived
812:1 August
618:keystone
605:cornices
337:Brisbane
48:Location
838:28 June
593:balcony
582:columns
305:History
277:at 183
888:under
870:under
549:ashlar
483:facade
175:601776
832:Trove
574:gable
534:patio
117:Built
840:2021
814:2014
395:Sir
194:room
156:Type
51:183
921::
830:.
802:.
723:^
455:c.
448:c.
418:.
382:c.
367:c.
326:c.
319:c.
289:,
285:,
281:,
63:,
59:,
55:,
842:.
816:.
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