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Robertson Bros building in centre established 1916. The Blue Bird Café , of Middle Eastern design , dates from 1920.
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The impressive art deco detailed Heritage listed shire hall building , constructed after fire destroyed the original office in December 1932 , opened in 1938 . Architects were Hill and Taylor, prominent between the two world wars , designing the Cairns City Council (1929), Cairns Post (1930), Proserpine Hospital and the Barron Valley Hotel (1940).
Supervising contractors for the shire hall were the Van Leewen Brothers who had come out from Holland to Innisfail in 1918 and built the town's art deco water tower, National Bank , Hotel Grand Central , Queens Hotel ( see below ) , Bank of New South Wales and the Commonwealth Bank . Using unemployed workers , the shire project cost 53,000 pounds ($106,000 ).
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