Holy Cross Laundry, Heritage-listed benevolent institution in Wooloowin, Queensland, Australia

Holy Cross Laundry is a single-storeyed brick and timber building with a corrugated iron roof at 60 Bridge Street, Wooloowin, designed by Francis Drummond Greville Stanley and built in stages from 1888 to 1905. Its 1899 brick wing has a high tongue-and-groove ceiling, tall sash windows, verandahs on each side and roof ventilators for maximum ventilation. The 1905 timber packing-room extension now holds offices.

The laundry was built in 1888–89 as an auxiliary wing to the Holy Cross Retreat, a Sisters of Mercy foundation honouring Bishop James Quinn, to a design by former colonial architect F. D. G. Stanley. Known as the Magdalen Asylum, it sheltered unmarried mothers, destitute women and people with intellectual disabilities regardless of creed. A brick ironing wing followed in 1899, and by the 1920s it was one of Brisbane's largest commercial laundries. The dormitory was demolished in 1977; in 2020 Cedar Wood Properties redeveloped the site as the Greville community.

The laundry operates as a workspace where people with support needs find meaningful employment and contribute to their community. This social mission reflects how the place has evolved from charity work into a modern business with purpose.

The site is at 60 Bridge Street, Wooloowin, in Brisbane's north. The 2020 redevelopment turned the former laundry into heritage apartments within the Greville community, with a modern two-storey addition behind the old building. The laundry area now forms the living spaces of these apartments, so it is a residential address rather than a visitor attraction.

The building preserves two working steam rollers from the mid-20th century that remain in use today. These machines create a direct link between the site's industrial past and its current operations.