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Moody's Cottages are a heritage-listed pair of houses, one a duplex and the other a detached house, at 8-12, & 16 Victoria Street, Spring Hill, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built . It is also known as Allandoon and Cooee. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. == History == Moody's Cottages were constructed probably in the mid-1870s. They comprise a pair of semi-detached brick houses (''Cooee'' and an unnamed neighbour) and an adjacent, detached brick house called ''Allandoon''.〔 William Moody, a letter carrier employed by the Brisbane Post Office, acquired subdivisions 23 and 24 of portion 236, parish of North Brisbane, in early 1870. Whether any buildings existed on the site, which Moody had purchased from William John Farmer Cooksley, a Brisbane builder, is not known. Although directories reveal Moody was resident in Brisbane by 1874, he is not listed specifically as living in Victoria Street until 1876.〔 In September 1874 the property was re-surveyed into three equal resubdivisions by Richard Gailey, licensed surveyor and a leading Brisbane architect, and it is likely that he was the designer of the cottages.〔 The survey plan was signed by both William Moody and Thomas Spilsbury, a compositor and later Queen Street confectioner, whose purchase of resubdivision 3 from Moody was registered immediately the survey was completed. On this property Spilsbury raised a mortgage of £280, which may have financed the construction of the three houses, in partnership with Moody. The mortgage was released in April 1876, and the resubdivision was resold to Moody in May of the same year.〔 Little is known of Moody's background which might account for how a postman, promoted to mail sorter in the 1880s, was able to become the owner of three brick houses.〔 Moody's houses remained the property of his daughters Susannah, Hannah and Margaret Jane until 1949.〔 Allandoon was renovated in the 1980s, and remains a private residence. In 1988 the semi-detached houses were converted into a house and gallery/studio by well known Brisbane artist Rick Everingham, and the name Cooee is generally applied to the pair.〔 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「Moody's Cottages」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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