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Level of Significance

  • File
  • Local
  • Regional
  • State
  • National

Age (approx)

140yrs

Trees

1

Diameter

0.6m

Height - 25m

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Details

Common name
Patula Pine
Botanical name
Pinus patula
Type
Stand
Condition
Good
Municipality
Brisbane City (QLD)
Location
Meigunya 35 Jordan Tce Bowen Hills QLD 4006
Access
Restricted
Significances
  • Outstanding species (Scientific)
  • Landscape (Social)
  • Landmark (Social)
  • Park/Garden/Town (Historic)
  • Person/Group/Institution (Historic)
  • Attractive (Aesthetic)
Date of measurement
04 Jul 2013
Date of classification
15 Jan 2014
Other register(s)
False

Statement of Significance

The house Meigunya was built in 1886 by Herbert Perry, the son of one of the Perry brothers. Herbert was a widely experienced businessman and held directorships in the Castlemaine Brewery and Quinlan, Gray & Co. George, William (Herbert’s father) and Frederick Perry migrated to Australia in the 1860s and set up a successful ironmongery business in Queen Street, Brisbane, at the site of the now Wintergarden Mall. Herbert and his brothers carried on the ironmongery business after their father’s death. In 1922 after Leila and Herbert Perry’s death, the house passed out of the Perry family. The trees are believed to have been planted around the time that Meigunya was built in 1886. Meigunya historic house now belongs to the Queensland Women's History association who purchased it in 1967.
The trees are outstanding examples of their species and are of important landscape significance in the inner city suburb. They are associated with William and Herbert Perry who were reputable and prominent businessmen in Brisbane in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The trees formed part of the gardens Meigunya historic house which now belongs to the Queensland Women's History association who purchased the house in 1967.The tree is in the centre of the allotment, near front boundary.

Notes

"Miegunyah" is on the Register of the National Estate, on the Queensland Heritage Register, classified ‘A’ by the National Trust and its grounds are protected by a Brisbane City Council Vegetation Preservation Order. The trees are on the National Trust of Queensland's Significant Tree Register BNE 1/958.