needed to ensure the stump caps are in good condition and for early detection of white ant entry to the main structure. Not being built of stone or brick, Queenslander architecture cannot have a foundation stone. However, the desire for the traditional ceremony of laying a foundation stone, particularly for churches and other community buildings, evolved a new tradition in Queenslander buildings of a stump-capping ceremony, where an ant cap was ceremonially affixed to one or more stumps. Since an ant cap cannot have a commemorative message (unlike a foundation stone), sometimes a plaque or other method of commemoration was subsequently added to the building to record the occasion for posterity, but mostly such stump-capping ceremonies left no permanent commemoration. See also Architecture of Australia Australian residential architectural styles Bahay na Bato, an architectural style that evolved for the tropics in the Philippines List of architectural styles List of house styles List of Queensland's Q150 Icons References Further reading External links Queensland house – Queensland Museum Sustainable Queenslander House Renovation Timber and Tin Revisited: Modifications to the Queensland House Using Burra Charter Principles House Histories - Research the history of your Queenslander Architecture in Queensland Architecture in Australia by period or style Culture of Queensland House styles Housing in Australia Victorian architecture in Queensland