Landsborough Shire Council Chambers (former)

The town of Landsborough, nestled in at the foot of the Blackall Range, is named after explorer William Landsborough, best known for his search for Ludwig Leichhardt and his exploration of the Gulf Country during the search for Burke and Wills. After serving as police magistrate in Burketown, and surveying a road from St George to Cunnamulla, he retired to Caloundra in 1882 and died in 1886. When the railway from Caboolture arrived in 1890, the town and the railway station were named in his honour. The first local government in the region was the Caboolture Divisional Board in 1880, later Caboolture Shire. In 1912, the Landsborough Shire was annexed from Caboolture and a new office was required. A small one-room office built in 1913 sufficed for a decade. Then the council commissioned architect Walter Carey Voller to design a new building. Built by A E Round, the Landsborough Shire Council Chambers opened in January 1924. Originally the building comprised a council chamber, offices and a strong room. It was extended in the 1950s. In 1967 the council relocated to Caloundra and closed this office in Landsborough in 1974. The chambers are now the home of the Landsborough Historical Museum.