Holland Park is a southern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Holland Park had a population of 8,111 people. Geography Holland Park is by road south-east of the Brisbane GPO. It is mostly residential, with some commercial areas along Logan Road. Holland Park is an older suburb made of largely post-World War II wooden homes. Logan Road bisects the slightly hilly suburb. There are a number of schools and parks in the suburb and a retail zone with shops and a public bar. It is also home to the Mount Thompson crematorium, Queensland oldest crematorium, in Nursery Road. History Holland Park owes its name to the late Julius Holland, who, for many years, owned a large area of scrub land which he had bought on speculation. The estate stretched from what is now Abbotsleigh Street to the vicinity of Arnold Street, and from Logan Road back to Cavendish Road. The Holland Park area was settled from 1865 with the land used mainly used for farming. In 1882, Julius Holland sold "Holland Estate". These 150 acres of scrub, in the true sense, was Holland Park proper; but as estates in the vicinity also adopted the Holland Park name, an elastic meaning has been given to the name, and a much more extensive area is now comprehensively known as Holland Park. On Saturday 24 May 1884, the Windsor Castle Estate was auctioned by John F. Buckland. The subdivision consisted of 217 allotments. The subdivision "commanding view of the city and the whole of the surrounding country from bay to the city". Tarana Estate was auctioned on Saturday 20 November 1926 by Blocksidge and Ferguson Ltd. The allotments advertising poster indicates sites have "electric light at the estate. Framont Estate on Logan Road was advertised for auction on 30 Oct 1926, 55 allotments were for sale. Estates had "all perfect building blocks, nice slope, high and breezy, extra large areas, well drained, ideal surroundings, graded and formed roads". Stonehaven Heights Estate centered on Raff Avenue was subject to a private sale on 25 March 1931; the locality had previously been advertised for sale on 28 September 1918. In 1918, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane, James Duhig purchased 3 acres of land in the Yuletide Estate for a church and school.In 1926 the Logan Road tramway was extended to a new terminus at Holland Park. Trams commenced operation on