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The Fulton Residence is a heritage-listed
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at 209 Indooroopilly Road,
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,
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,
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, Australia. It was designed by
Charles William Thomas Fulton Charles William Thomas Fulton (1906–1988) was an Australian architect practising in Brisbane, Queensland. A number of his works are listed on the Queensland Heritage Register. Early life Charles Fulton was born in Sydney in 1906 and receiv ...
for his own use and was built in 1940. It was added to the
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on 27 October 2000.


History

The Fulton Residence was designed in 1940 by Charles Fulton as his own home. The house was designed in a modified international style and won the 1948 Queensland
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award for meritorious architecture. Charles Fulton choose to build his home at a time when the inner western suburbs of
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and Taringa were being opened up for development. This development was stimulated by the move of the
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to St Lucia. Architects were particularly attracted to these suburbs because of the topography and vegetation and the area developed a reputation for innovative and experimental domestic design. In the post-war period a number of architects settled in the St Lucia area, including of
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,
Edwin James Hayes Edwin James Hayes and Campbell Royston Scott were Australian architects who distinguished themselves through their use of colour and by re-thinking the concept of housing spaces. Personal lives Edwin J. Hayes Edwin James Hayes was born ...
, Campbell Royston Scott and Vitaly Gzell. Charles Fulton was born in Sydney in 1906 and received his architectural training as an articled pupil of Francis Ernest Stowe, architect and civil engineer. In 1931–1932 he worked in London as a draftsman for Rudder and Grout and then B George Architects. During this period he travelled in Europe and made pilgrimages looking at buildings. He was particularly interested in the work of Dutch architect
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, whose Hilverusm Town Hall was influential in Britain in the early thirties. In 1933 he returned to Australia and settled in
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where he was employed by Hall and Cook. In 1937 he entered into a partnership with
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. In the same year, he also became a lecturer in charge of Architecture at the
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and he taught in the architecture school for 33 years. He made a large contribution to architectural education throughout his whole career and the
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named its architecture facility the "Charles Fulton School of Architecture" in his honour. Charles Fulton was a key practitioner and teacher of the modern trends in architectural design in Queensland during the late thirties and forties. The Masel Residence at
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(1938),
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(1938) and his own residence all received meritorious architecture awards in the early
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Queensland Awards Programs. Aside from their domestic work, the practice of Donoghue and Fulton was renowned as hospital architects who combined the latest ideas in hospital planning with recent developments in architectural design. The
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designed between 1935–39 (built 1951), the
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General Hospital and Nurses' Quarters (1936–38),
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Hospital 1939,
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Hospital 1940, Nurses' Quarters
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1941–42 (demolished 1999) were all buildings designed in this period. After the
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the partnership of Donoghue and Fulton was dissolved and Fulton took a new partner James Musgrave Collin. During this period Charles Fulton designed a number of notable hospital buildings including, Barcaldine Hospital main block and Staff Quarters (1953), Clermont Hospital main block (1955),
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nurses quarters (1957). All these later buildings were characterised by low pitched roofs, linear planning, cross ventilation, wide eaves or awnings and the use of modern materials. The firm that he founded continues as Fulton Trotter. The Fulton family occupied the Fulton Residence for nearly 60 years with Charles Fulton dying in 1988 and his wife Violet Edna Fulton in 1999. Both Mr and Mrs Fulton were very attached to the house and garden and it remained virtually unaltered from when it was completed in 1940.


Description

The Fulton House is a modified example of the
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in the materials, detailing and asymmetrical
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. It is a two-storey buff-coloured brick house with contrasting red brick to the lower levels and a
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tiled roof. A large
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is concealed behind a deep
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board and this combined with the horizontal raked joints and the concrete
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and steel
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serves to emphasise the horizontal lines. The
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is built in a red brick emphasising the vertical line. Internally the house is designed on three levels with an entrance stair hall leading down to an open planned living dining room opening onto a small kitchen. The open stairwell leads to the upper level which contains two bedrooms, a study and a bathroom The main bedroom and study open onto the balcony. Internally the house is without decoration and is flooded with light from the large windows. The house is very intact and has many of the original light fittings and "modern" features such as built-in cupboards in the kitchen and bedrooms. Bookshelves in the living room and bed head units in the bedrooms were designed and built by Charles Fulton. The house is set back on the site overlooking Indooroopilly Road with a large mature garden in front of the house. The garden has a stone flagged terrace, stone retaining walls and stepped garden terraces all of which were constructed by Charles Fulton and his family.


Heritage listing

Fulton Residence was listed on the
Queensland Heritage Register The Queensland Heritage Register is a heritage register, a statutory list of places in Queensland, Australia that are protected by Queensland legislation, the Queensland Heritage Act 1992. It is maintained by the Queensland Heritage Council. As ...
on 27 October 2000 having satisfied the following criteria. The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history. The house demonstrates how, in the interwar period, European architectural ideas were transferred to Australia and modified to local conditions. The Fulton Residence is an important building in the evolution of domestic architecture in Queensland. In the immediate post war period the western Brisbane suburbs of St Lucia, Taringa and Indooroopilly were the location of many experiments with modern domestic architecture and the Fulton Residence is part of this tradition. The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places. The Fulton Residence is an excellent intact Queensland example of the international style of architecture, with its use of modern materials, and the asymmetrical balance of horizontal and vertical elements. The place is important because of its aesthetic significance. The design of the building with its interplay of horizontal and vertical elements and curved balcony has aesthetic value. Sited on a slope the house is enhanced by a large mature garden which contributes to the ambience of the surrounding suburb. The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland's history. The Fulton Residence is intimately associated with the architect Charles Fulton as the house he designed for his family. It displays many of the characteristics of his work including the use of face brickwork, the use of modern materials such as steel windows and stainless, corner windows, the eschewing of internal decoration and an interest in designing for a sub tropical climate. Charles Fulton is an important figure in the development of architecture in Queensland both as an educator and a practitioner. He played an important role at the Brisbane Central Technical College (now the Queensland University of Technology) for over thirty years. He was one of the main architects responsible for introducing the international style to Queensland. He experimented with this style combining it with an interest in climatic design. Aside from his own home his key buildings include the Masel residence at Stanthorpe, Nudgee Junior College Indooroopilly, Kingaroy General Hospital, Barcaldine Hospital and Townsville Hospital.


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