Vincent Price (architect)
Vincent Price was a railway architect in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Early life
[edit]Vincent Price was born in Brisbane in 1868.[1]
Architecture
[edit]Price began his architectural career articled to Richard Gailey. He established his own practice in Brisbane in 1890 but soon became a draftsman in the chief engineers' office of Queensland Railways. He remained with the railways until he retired in May 1933 after 36 years of service, his last position being that of principal railway architect.[1][2]
In 1936, Price was president of the Queensland chapter of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects.
Significant works
[edit]His significant works include:
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Ipswich Railway Workshops War Memorial (entry 600605)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
- ^ "Vincent Price retires". The Daily Standard. Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 25 May 1933. p. 3. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
- ^ Cobb, Paul (May 2020). "Toowoomba Railway Roll of Honour Board 1914-19". Queensland Family Historian. 41 (2). Queensland Family History Society: 44–46.
Attribution
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This Wikipedia article incorporates text from "The Queensland heritage register" published by the State of Queensland under CC-BY 3.0 AU licence (accessed on 7 July 2014, archived on 8 October 2014).
Further reading
[edit]- "Building and Real Estate". The Courier-Mail. Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 11 February 1936. p. 6. Retrieved 26 June 2015. — Vincent Price's views on contemporary architecture