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Kerr's Building is a heritage-listed shop at 84-86 Churchill Street, Childers, Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built . It is also known as Crow & Kingston and Kingston and Kingston. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 25 June 1993. == History == Kerr's Building was erected for Amelia Gertrude Overell, after a fire destroyed many of the shops along the southern side of Childers' main street.〔 The town of Childers grew up around a railway terminus opened in 1887 to facilitate timbergetting in the Isis Scrub. What became the main street was subdivided into small allotments in the 1890s. In 1893, Frederick John Charlton and Henry Jardine Gray sold 36 perches to Ellen Delaney. In 1898 the property was sold to Mrs Overell. It is not known what shops existed on the site at this time although J Delaney and later WJ Overell and Sons operated draperies in Childers. In March 1902 a fire destroyed the timber shop on the site, which was replaced by the existing masonry building. After the fire the southern side of the street was resurveyed resulting in the blocks becoming doglegged in shape.〔 In 1907 merchants and importers, Crow and Kingston, acquired the site. After the winding up of the company of Crow and Kingston Ltd the site was purchased by cousins Jack and Bill Kingston, who operated the store as Kingston and Kingston, merchants and importers, drapers and grocers. The site remained in the Kingston family until 1974 when it was transferred to Marjorie Ann Kerr. In that year, the shop was extensively remodelled. This work included internal partitioning, boarding up of the skylight, installation of a suspended ceiling, re- concreting the floor, and the remodelling of the front awning.〔 In 1977 the property was transferred to the present owners, who operate a real estate office. Alterations were carried out to enable the letting of various parts of the building. Existing tenants include a coffee shop and a hairdresser.〔 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「Kerr's Building」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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