PETRIE TERRACE MANSIONS
Petrie Mansions is a row of terrace houses erected in 1886-87 and designed by prominent Brisbane architect Andrea Giovanni Stombuco. Originally named the ‘Illawarra Buildings’, it was built as a rental property for affluent tenants. By the 1930s, with the decline of Petrie Terrace as a fashionable suburb, the ‘Illawarra Buildings’ had become a low-cost boarding house and flats. The building had so deteriorated by the 1970s that its future was in doubt. But in 1980, H. and A. Garms purchased the building and converted it into one of Brisbane’s most upmarket restaurants, ‘Petrie Mansions’. Their restoration work, together with its significance as one of Brisbane’s few remaining terrace house rows, has ensured that ‘Petrie Mansions’ has become a significant landmark to the people of Brisbane.
After a few years of geocaching I feel I am now well enough versed in the intricacies of geocaching to place my first hide. It is close to the area I have called home for the past 20 years.
The cache is not at Petrie Mansions but is close by. The area is fairly quiet but please use stealth as you could be observed by the residents of the houses nearby.