Bellmount, Spring Hill
Bellmount is a heritage-listed detached house at 71 St Pauls Terrace, Spring Hill, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from to . It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. History Bellmount is a small timber cottage constructed in 1880 for Martin McLeod, a bank messenger for the Union Bank of Australia. Spring Hill first developed in the 1850s and 1860s following the subdivision of crown land north of the town centre. Unlike other suburbs, Spring Hill evolved almost entirely into a residential suburb that had very little commercial or industrial base. Social segregation between the rich and the poor arose immediately in the area due to the undulating topography of the land. The elite built superior residences along the ridges of Wickham and Gregory Terraces, taking advantage of the views, breezes and good natural drainage. In comparison, the poor built simple timber houses on small blocks of land in the hollows adjacent to the ...
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Spring Hill, Queensland
Spring Hill is an inner northern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Spring Hill had a population of 5,974 people. Geography Spring Hill is located north of the central business district. Parts of Spring Hill can be considered to be extensions of the Brisbane CBD Brisbane City is the central suburb and central business district of Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia. It is colloquially referred to as the "Brisbane CBD" or "the city". It is located on a point on the northern bank of the .... The Inner-Northern Busway, Brisbane, Inner-Northern Busway serves the suburb via the Normanby bus stop. The suburb is home to an established gay bar called The Sportsman Hotel that has been operating for more than