Brisbane Dental Hospital and College, Heritage-listed dental hospital in Brisbane City, Australia
Brisbane Dental Hospital and College is a two-storey rendered masonry building with fluted Ionic columns located at 168 Turbot Street. The structure features terrazzo staircases and timber-paneled corridors connecting hospital operations on the ground floor to educational spaces above.
Designed by Raymond Clare Nowland, the building was begun in September 1938 and opened on 6 July 1941, funded by the Forgan Smith government's public works programme after the Depression. It housed the University of Queensland's Faculty of Dentistry, formed in 1935, and replaced the Brisbane Dental Hospital that had grown from the 1908 public clinic. It was the only part of Nowland's Turbot Street Development Scheme realised.
The building's name pairs the public Brisbane Dental Hospital with the University of Queensland's dental college, both housed under one roof from 1941. The first public dental clinic in Queensland had opened in Brisbane in 1908, and by 1926 it was run as the Brisbane Dental Hospital. From 2018 to 2021 the former hospital stood in as a fictional morgue in the television series Harrow.
The building stands at 168 Turbot Street, on the corner with Albert Street, above terraced gardens. It has been closed as a dental hospital since 2015, when the school moved to the Herston campus, so there is no interior to visit; the facade, the inscribed lines and the entrance steps are seen from the street.
The building gained Heritage Register listing in 1999 and later served as a filming location for the television series Harrow. Its architectural details and period interiors made it a natural choice for scenes requiring early 20th-century authenticity.
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