Stanthorpe forms an important group, coming just after Ipswich Post Office and before Mount Morgan Post Office in its application of Baroque Revival form and detailing to a post office. It is among the earliest Australian public buildings to be completed in a turn of the century Baroque manner, and, with Ipswich, counts as a prototype for the dominant mode in Australian public architecture until c.1918. Criterion E: Aesthetic characteristics The building, in the Informal Arts and Crafts style with an elaborate Royal coat of arms and a prominent four-storey clock tower, has a strong aesthetic impact on the Stanthorpe streetscape. References Bibliography Livingston, K T, 1994. 'Anticipating Federation: the federalising of telecommunications in Australia'. Australian Historical Studies 26: 97-117 Queensland Heritage Register Citation: 600831, Stanthorpe post Office. Walker, M., 1983. Historic Post Offices in Queensland - A National Estate Study. University of Queensland, Department of Architecture. GS Warmington and AC Ward, Australia Post Survey of Historic Properties in Queensland, 1991; Australian National Estate, The Heritage of Australia, Melbourne: Macmillan, 1981 Register of the National Estate, ID 9233 Malcolm M Rea, Stanthorpe: an Australian Post Office History, 1972 Chesterton Corporate Property Advisors, CISD Property Valuation Report, June 2005 EJM Weller, 'Treasury Precinct, Brisbane', in National Trusts of Australia, Historic Public Buildings of Australia, Cassell, Sydney, 1972 Alistair Service, Edwardian Architecture: a Handbook to Building Design in Britain, Thames and Hudson, London, 1977 Conrad Hamann, John Smith Murdoch: Chronology of architectural connections and involvements, Lovell Chen, Melbourne, 2006 Don Watson and Judith McKay, Queensland Architects of the Nineteenth Century, Museum of Queensland, Brisbane, 1994 Trevor Howells et al., Towards the Dawn: Federation architecture in Australia, Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1989. Attribution External links Stanthorpe Post Office Discovery Queensland Buildings website Commonwealth Heritage List places in Queensland Stanthorpe, Queensland Post office buildings in Queensland John Smith Murdoch buildings Articles incorporating text from the Australian Heritage Database Government buildings completed in 1901 1901 establishments in Australia