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Carlton House is a heritage-listed boarding house at 3 Mill Street, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. It was built from to 1900s. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 31 October 1994. == History == Carlton House, which overlooks the Toowoomba Railway yards to the east, was erected by 1877 for James Augustus Pearson.〔 Carlton House is located on allotment 10, part of the first subdivision of land in Toowoomba, surveyed by JC Burnett in 1849. Allotments 10-12 were purchased in March 1851, by Sydney businessmen Thomas Sutcliffe Mort and Alexander Campbell Brown, and their Toowoomba partner Thomas Ayerst〔 Allotment 10 was acquired by James Taylor in 1862, then by Robert Anthony in 1874. Later in 1874, part of the allotment was acquired by Pearson, recorded in the conveyancing documents as a Toowoomba Storekeeper.〔 Given the proximity of Carlton House to the Toowoomba Railway Station it has been suggested that Carlton House was erected by Pearson as a guest house for incoming railway passengers. The railway line to Toowoomba was completed in 1867, and a railway station subsequently erected. This station outgrew its usefulness, and in 1871 the decision was taken to construct a new station. The new building was completed in 1874.〔 In December 1877, Pearson advertised Carlton House in the Toowoomba Chronicle, stating that Families, Ladies or Gentlemen visiting Toowoomba for a few days () find superior accommodation at Carlton House, Mort Estate.〔 Carlton House was acquired by Jane Thomas in 1894. An auction notice for Carlton House in 1899 described it as being well built, and contains in the main building, Drawing and Dining rooms, 5 Bedrooms and Bath room; Kitchen and Servant's room detached. Good brick stable and buggy house... . It appears that additional accommodation for servants was erected during the early 1900s. Carlton House was acquired by Bridget Horan in 1909, then by John Luddy, a Toowoomba victualler in 1917, and by William Glover of Toowoomba in 1924. Post Office Directories suggest that Carlton House operated as a boarding house during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.〔 Glover rented Carlton House to Colin G Burn, a pawnbroker trading in second hand furniture, in 1924. It is understood that Glover and Burn were brothers-in-law, and that shortly after Glover had purchased the House, he left Toowoomba to join his wife in Sydney.〔 A drainage plan of Carlton House prepared in 1928 indicates a number of proposed plumbing connections. It is understood that half of Carlton House and some of the outbuildings were converted into flats during the 1930s.〔 Burn purchased Carlton House in 1937, and remained there until his death in 1965. The property was transferred to Burn's sons Eric and William as trustees for Burn, and was acquired by Eric Burn in 1991. Eric Burn died in 1994; G Hicks is presently the trustee of Carlton House.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carlton House, Toowoomba」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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