Rockhampton Post Office, Heritage-listed postal building in East Street, Rockhampton, Australia.
Rockhampton Post Office is a two-story brick building on East Street with sandstone facing and classical architectural details. A distinctive clock tower installed in 1894 rises prominently from the structure and makes it recognizable from a distance.
The building was constructed between 1892 and 1896 following designs by George St Paul Connolly. Its construction combined local resources such as stone from Stanwell Quarries with classical design principles that were common in Australia at that time.
The building's design kept the postal and telegraph services apart: the postal section stood at the Denham and East Streets corner, the telegraph section at the northern end facing East Street, divided by a carriage-way and the clock tower. The first floor held separate apartments for the Post and Telegraph Masters, each above their own section.
The building stands at the corner of Denham and East Streets, with the former postal section on that corner and the telegraph section at the northern end facing East Street. The two halves were divided by a carriage-way and the clock tower, and each master's first-floor apartment sat above his own section.
The clock in the tower was made by Gillet and Johnston of Croydon, England, and cost £325; the Government Clockmaker installed it in September 1894. The building's front wing originally held the savings bank and money order office, a delivery room and a private letter box office, divided by cedar partitions with embossed panels.
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