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    Benjamin Backhouse (1829 – 29 July 1904) was an architect and politician in Australia. He was a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. Benjamin...
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    Fortitude Valley State School (category Benjamin Backhouse buildings)
    Valley, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Benjamin Backhouse and built from 1867 to 1913. It is also known as State Emergency Services...
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  • Backhouse is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alfred Paxton Backhouse (1851–1939), Australian judge, son of Benjamin Benjamin Backhouse...
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    Jersey Road and Moncur Street, was built in 1875-77 and designed by Benjamin Backhouse. It was burned out much later but eventually restored and converted...
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  • Henry Conybeare. Government House, Brisbane, Australia, designed by Benjamin Backhouse. Bataclan theatre in Paris, designed by Charles Duval. Iron-framed...
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    Government House, Brisbane (category Benjamin Backhouse buildings)
    the Australian monarch in Queensland. It was originally designed by Benjamin Backhouse and built 1865, but has been subsequently extended and refurbished...
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    Blind on City Road was the first school for the deaf in Australia. Benjamin Backhouse was appointed architect and the building was constructed in phases...
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    Prince Alfred when he visited Sydney. The park layout was designed by Benjamin Backhouse. From 1869 until 1881, it hosted the Royal Easter Show. In 1870 the...
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    William Backhouse Astor Jr. (July 12, 1829 – April 25, 1892) was an American businessman, racehorse owner/breeder, and yachtsman who was a member of the...
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    1877, though the plans for a college building were accepted from Benjamin Backhouse, having won the committee's competition for a design. The Technical...
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    Molong Road. He engaged the well known architect Benjamin Backhouse to design the house. Backhouse designed many significant buildings in Queensland...
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    Cintra House (category Benjamin Backhouse buildings)
    house, was built in 1863-64 for George Dudley Webb to a design by Benjamin Backhouse. It comprised four rooms on each level, surrounded by a ground floor...
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    Cathedral of St Stephen, Brisbane (category Benjamin Backhouse church buildings)
    Quinn laid the foundation stone for a grand cathedral designed by Benjamin Backhouse, but this did not at first proceed beyond the foundations. R George...
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    Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Benjamin Joseph Backhouse and built from 1862 to 1864. It is also known as Thuruna. It was...
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  • specifications to be submitted for the new school building. Architect Benjamin Backhouse made the only submission, and after a small problem with his initial...
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  • first being Ipswich Grammar School. The original school, designed by Benjamin Backhouse, was on a site in Roma Street in Brisbane City, approximately opposite...
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    meant "distant mountain". The design of the house is attributed to Benjamin Backhouse, an architect responsible for several substantial commissions in Queensland...
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  • 1863. His father was Benjamin Backhouse, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council; his brother Alfred Paxton Backhouse was a judge of the District...
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    established in 1871, headed by George Allen Mansfield. The secretary was Benjamin Backhouse, who was later a Member of the NSW Legislative Council. The Queensland...
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    over fifty years. Backhouse was born in Ipswich, Suffolk in England in May 1851. He was one of seventeen children to Benjamin Backhouse (1829–1904), an...
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  • Forbes Mackay. Following some alterations to the original plans by Benjamin Backhouse the magnificent mansion "Minimbah" was constructed between 1874 and...
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    There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Backhouse, once in the Baronetage of England and once in the Baronetage of the United...
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    Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Benjamin Joseph Backhouse and built from 1864 to 1912. It is also known as Warwick National...
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    Baroona, Paddington (category Benjamin Backhouse buildings)
    Paddington, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Benjamin Backhouse and built c. 1886. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register...
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  • include: Alfred Paxton Backhouse – judge and Deputy-Chancellor of Sydney University, son of the architect, Benjamin Backhouse who designed some of the...
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  • (1874–1948) (New Zealand) John Lee Archer (1791–1852) (Australia) Benjamin Backhouse (1829–1904) (Australia) William Barnett Armson (1834–1883) (New Zealand)...
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    All Saints Anglican Church, Brisbane (category Benjamin Backhouse church buildings)
    Australia. First founded in 1862, the current building designed by Benjamin Backhouse was completed in 1869, making it the oldest Anglican church in Brisbane...
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    guinea prize for the winning submission. In April 1864, a design by Benjamin Backhouse was selected, but was later rejected after it was estimated that it...
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    School was the first). The first buildings designed by architect Benjamin Backhouse with later additions by Richard George Suter were erected on a site...
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    1850. By 1865 Suter was working for Brisbane's leading architect Benjamin Backhouse while establishing his own practice. Suter was one of Queensland's...
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