Department of Agriculture and Stock, William Street, Brisbane, 1940. From the Queensland Heritage Registerid=601093 ) . The former Department of Primary Industries building, finished in unpainted render and painted brickwork, is built on a steeply sloping site with two storeys and basement fronting William Street and a lower three-storeyed wing at the rear fronting Queen's Wharf Road. with a hipped rib and pan galvanised iron roof. The building was originally built as an Immigration Depot, and construction began in 1865 and completed in 1866. The building was constructed on part of the for
Department of Agriculture and Stock, William Street, Brisbane, 1940. From the Queensland Heritage Registerid=601093 ) . The former Department of Primary Industries building, finished in unpainted render and painted brickwork, is built on a steeply sloping site with two storeys and basement fronting William Street and a lower three-storeyed wing at the rear fronting Queen's Wharf Road. with a hipped rib and pan galvanised iron roof. The building was originally built as an Immigration Depot, and construction began in 1865 and completed in 1866. The building was constructed on part of the former Commandant's Garden. The garden had been part of an attempt to establish some principles of behaviour at Penal Settlements throughout the Colony of New South Wales by the introduction of a Code of Regulations by Governor Darling which, amongst other things, entitled the Commandant to four acres of garden to be tended by up to three gardeners. A wharf had been constructed in front of the adjacent Commissariat Stores [600176] and was originally known as King's Wharf, until 1837 when it became Queen's Wharf after the ascendancy of Queen Victoria. Queen's Wharf was the point of disembarkation of immigrants to the free colony from 1848 to 1897. Successive colonial governments actively pursued a programme of immigration of free settlers after the Penal Settlement had closed down. The first immigrants to come direct from overseas arrived on 15 December 1848 on the barque Artemisia. The first immigrants were housed temporarily in the Old Military Barracks which were located where the former Treasury Building [600143] now stands. By the 1860s the barracks had deteriorated to such an extent that they were described in the local press as wretched and dilapidated repugnant and harrowing and an abominable shed. The decision was made to erect a new facility, and the site was selected being a short distance from Queen's Wharf. Construction began in 1865 and completed i
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