Landmarks & Buildings

Featured on Maryborough's Walk and Drive Tour - this rendered brick building, the Former Australian Joint Stock Bank, was built in 1882 for the Maryborough Branch of the Australian Joint Stock Bank. The Union B...

Located on the corner of Kent and Richmond streets, a statue of Mary Poppins stands proudly in recognition of Maryborough's link with the famous nanny. PL Travers was born Helen Lyndon Goff in Maryborough in 18...

Maryborough’s modern Excelsior Band Hall replaces the earlier hall destroyed by fire in 1987. It was designed in Victorian Style to compliment the precinct. The design choice also commemorates the length of t...

Once upon a time, a baby girl was born in the upstairs bedroom at the Australian Joint Stock Bank, Kent Street in Maryborough, Queensland. Her name was Helen Lyndon Goff, but she became known to the world as P...

Brooweena War Memorial, found in the Woocoo Historical Museum's grounds, has a one-off soldier statue erected by the residents in late 1922. The origin and designer of this soldier statue is unclear, although ...

Originally established as a forestry camp when there was logging on World Heritage-listed K’gari (formerly Fraser Island), Central Station's beautiful rainforest area houses a display explaining the development...

The Maryborough Cenotaph was erected in 1922 with funds obtained by public subscription as a memorial to the fallen of the First World War. The memorial includes five Italian Carrara marble statues which portra...

264 Kent Street is another great addition to the variety of historically significant buildings to be found in Maryborough on the Fraser Coast. This building at 264 Kent Street was erected in 1875 and was occup...

Maryborough Anglican Parish is one of the oldest parishes in Queensland with its beginnings traceable to 1847. St Paul’s Anglican Church in the heart of Maryborough CBD and has a very strong community presenc...

Built-in 1882, the heritage-listed Maryborough Railway Station features a Victorian design. The stationmaster’s residence has much of the character of larger Queensland houses of that era. The railway complex a...

Enjoy tributes to the heritage of Maryborough with the Ellena Street Pavement Artwork. Primary School students designed the pavers for the Ellena Street Pavement Art and Sculpture, with the theme being "I can...

Designed by Brisbane architects Hall and Dods in American colonial style, Maryborough City Hall was erected in 1908 to replace the original timber Town Hall which stood on the opposite side of Kent Street. The ...

The Bauple Heritage Trail acknowledges the rich historical foundations of the small village of Bauple also known as the original home of the macadamia or 'bopple'nut. The self-guided tour is approximately 3.3km...

Miss Janet Melville bequeathed the Fairy Fountain and Band Rotunda in memory of her brother Andrew who was Mayor of Maryborough in 1863. The entire structure was imported from Scotland in 1890 after the Hon. A...

A new diving attraction to the Fraser Coast. The 127-metre heavy-lift former navy ship involved in 26 major operations will spend the rest of its life in the waters between the Fraser Coast and Bundaberg as a ...

The Mary Ann is a replica of the first steam engine built in Queensland in 1873 at John Walker and Co's Union Foundry. It steams through the park along the rail tracks which were laid to service the wharves and...

This School of Arts building was constructed in the classic revival style in 1887 and contained a library, museum, reading room, technical college and a billiard room. It replaced the first School of Arts built...

J E Brown commenced business as a provisions and victuals merchant in 1857 in Richmond Street. In 1879 J E Brown had this two-storey brick warehouse built and was designed by a local architect James Buchanan. ...