Keating residence, Indooroopilly, Heritage listed villa in Indooroopilly, Australia.
The Keating Residence is a substantial two-storeyed house of rendered brick at 10–12 Westminster Road, Indooroopilly, designed by Richard Gailey and built about the 1890s for Louis Stamm. It stands on a main route from Indooroopilly railway station to the Indooroopilly Shopping Centre and is visible from several surrounding streets. Much of the interior finish, especially on the ground floor, dates from a 1920s or 1930s renovation rather than the original shell.
Louis Stamm, a merchant, newspaper proprietor and brewery owner, bought 42 acres at Indooroopilly in 1873, two years before the railway station opened, and subdivided the land from 1875. He is thought to have built this house in the 1890s to Richard Gailey's design, though Stamm himself is usually listed at a Spring Hill address. After his death in 1903 the property passed to his daughter Mary Louisa Keating, and Louis Keating moved in with his wife in 1924.
The house is also known as the Louis Stamm residence, after the Brisbane businessman who had it built in the 1890s. Stamm was an early chairman of the Indooroopilly Divisional Board when it separated from Taringa and Toowong. The Keating family gave the villa its present name: Stamm's daughter Mary Louisa married Andrew Keating in 1884, and Louis Keating and his wife Eileen moved in during 1924.
The house is a private heritage residence at 10–12 Westminster Road and is not open to visitors; it is viewed from the street. It stands on high ground on the route between Indooroopilly Railway Station and Indooroopilly Shopping Centre, so it can be seen from several surrounding streets. In 2008 the owners were served a maintenance notice under the Queensland Heritage Act 1992, the first use of the amended powers.
Louis Stamm may never have lived in the house he is credited with building; his residence is usually listed at 25 Herbert Street, Spring Hill. The property passed to his daughter Mary Louisa Keating, and Louis Keating and his wife Eileen moved in in 1924. In 2008 the owners were served a maintenance notice, the first use of amended Queensland Heritage Act powers allowing fines up to $75,000.
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