Cahill's Stores, Rockhampton, Heritage-listed commercial building on Quay Street, Rockhampton, Australia.
Cahill's Stores is a single-storey brick building with concrete render at 232–234 Quay Street, Rockhampton, designed by John William Wilson and built in 1889 for John and Kate Cahill. It stands between the sites later occupied by the Commercial Hotel and the Mount Morgan Gold Mining Company Building. A party wall divides the interior, a result of the 1949 easement that allowed the store to be sold as two separate premises.
Designed in 1889 by John William Wilson for John and Kate Cahill, it served as Dalgety & Cos first Queensland office until 1940. The building emerged during a period when Rockhampton was establishing itself as a major trading center along the Fitzroy River.
The building represents the commercial growth of Rockhampton during the gold rush period when merchants established substantial trading operations along the Fitzroy River.
Cahill's Stores stands at 232–234 Quay Street, between the sites later occupied by the Commercial Hotel and the Mount Morgan Gold Mining Company Building. A 1949 easement split the single-storey brick building into two stores divided by a party wall, and it returned to a single owner only in 1983. It is also known as Clarke's Building and Flamingos Nightclub.
In 1949 an easement split the building into two stores divided by a party wall; the Australian Red Cross Society bought the northern store, nearest William Street. It was not reunited under a single owner until 1983, and in between it housed Kerrisk Bros. and the Central Livestock and Produce Co-operative Society.
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