Toowoomba Soldiers Memorial Hall, Ruthven Street, Front elevation, 2000

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

The Soldiers’ Memorial Hall was designed in two sections: A two-storey face and rendered brick building facing Ruthven Street and containing commemorative and formal RSL functions, and a large single storey brick extension facing Herries Street and housing the dance hall and club facilities. The main entrance, through the projecting arcade facing Ruthven Street, leas to the Hall of Memory with its large timber honour rolls.

The Soldiers Memorial Hall was constructed in several stages between 1923 and 1959, as a tribute to soldiers from the district who had served in the First World War. The Hall is a rare example in Queensland of a quite elaborate soldier’s hall, and it is larger than others built during the same period.

All three stages (1923-4, 1930-1, 1957-9) were designed by William Hodgen Jnr, with funds for the project being raised by the Citizen’s Memorial Hall Committee. The first

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