Vincent Price (railway architect)

Vincent Price, railway architect, 1934

Vincent Price was a railway architect in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Early life

Vincent Price was born in Brisbane in 1868.[1]

Architecture

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]

He designed the (now heritage-listed) Ipswich Railway Workshops War Memorial.[1]

In 1936, Price was President of the Queensland chapter of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Ipswich Railway Workshops War Memorial (entry 600605)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  2. ↑ "VINCENT PRICE RETIRES.". The Daily Standard (Brisbane: National Library of Australia). 25 May 1933. p. 3. Retrieved 26 June 2015.

Attribution

This Wikipedia article was originally based on 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

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