Rowes Building, Heritage-listed commercial building in Brisbane, Australia.

Rowes Building is a five-storey masonry office building with a basement at 235 Edward Street, its official heritage address being 221 Adelaide Street. Its plastered facade has wide arched openings on the lower floors, arched architraves with keystones above, and a parapet cornice with a narrow pediment bearing the name "ROWES". Exposed timber trusses remain on the upper level.

Rowes Building was erected in 1885 together with the adjacent Rothwells Building, for owners Thomas MacDonald-Paterson and John Forsyth, at a cost of £13,000; the contractor was W. Macfarlane. In 1903 William Effy leased the basement, ground floor and first-floor balcony and continued his family's Rowes Cafe there, with a dining room seating 380 by 1909. Effy bought the building in 1914 and in 1925 engaged Hall and Prentice for £162,000 alterations, including Rowes Arcade and a ballroom.

The building shows how commercial spaces in Brisbane adapted over time, shifting from warehouses to retail shops and offices serving different types of businesses. Its internal link to the adjacent Rothwells Building demonstrates how neighboring properties merged to create larger business complexes in the city center.

The building sits in Brisbane's central business district and is easy to reach via Edward Street. The shop arcades and public spaces are well accessible during daytime hours, with the classical architecture defining the interior flow.

The name on the parapet, "ROWES", comes from Minna Rowe's Rowes Cafe in Queen Street. Her son William Effy took a ten-year lease in 1903 and by 1909 ran a ground-floor dining room seating 380 guests. He bought the building in 1914 and in 1925 engaged Hall and Prentice for alterations costing £162,000, which added the Rowes ballroom and the Adelaide Street arcade.