In 2013, Frank Gilson House is a day care centre. The sign over the door shows the original name for the Home.
This image is from page 141 of the Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Child Abuse in Queensland institutions and the image is an Inquiry photograph.
The library catalogue includes this description: Magdalene Asylum at Wooloowin, Brisbane was designed by former colonial architect Francis Drummond Greville Stanley, one of Queensland’s most prolific late 19th century architects. It was built between 1888 and 1889.
This image is from page 144 of the Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Child Abuse in Queensland institutions and the image is an Inquiry photograph. The Holy Cross laundry was located on the same site as the Holy Cross Home and Holy Cross Retreat.
This image was included in Annual report of the Director of the State Children Department for the year 1913.
This is a copy of an article from the Courier Mail.
This newspaper article reports on the decision by the Uniting Church to sell the property formerly known as W. R. Black Home.
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