Maryborough Central State School

The grand set of stairs off Kent Street lead to the Maryborough State School Campus. The school occupied two earlier sites in 1862 and 1865, before relocating to this site in 1877. The two-storey rendered masonry building (Block C) was designed by the Colonial Architect FDG Stanley and constructed in 1875-76 by John T Annear, to serve as an immigration depot for Maryborough. However, there were no water tanks built as part of the original project and the building lay idle until two large underground tanks were built in 1877. It was then decided that the building would better serve the burgeoning town as a school. This school campus near the corner of Kent and John Streets grew to include an 1879 play shed, an 1882 low-set timber infants’ school (Block A facing Kent Street) and teacher’s residence facing Sussex Street, a 1909 infants’ play shed, a 1924 two-storey brick Technical College (Block B), and a 1947 classroom facing John Street. Mature trees along Kent Street, are complemented by those in the grounds of the adjacent Maryborough High School.