Брисбен қаласының Холланд Парк ауданының тарихы

Suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Holland Park is a southern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Holland Park had a population of 8,111 people. 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. In the early 1880s, almost 300 First Nations persons from afar as Ipswich would meet on a creek bank in the suburb for a corroboree. In 1882, Julius Holland sold "Holland Estate". These 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. 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 centred 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 1908, on the peripheral of today's suburb with Mount Gravatt, a mosque was built for 'Brisbane's Mohammedan community'. it was established by Muslims who had moved from India. The imam of the 1930s, Fazal Abdul, was from Afghanistan, and served mostly the residents of Brisbane, but this was extended to 'Travellers, Indian hawkers, and Afghan bushmen from the far inland, and farmers and storekeepers from the country'. The tram line was extended from Stones Corner to Greenslopes in 1914, and in 1926 the Logan Road tramway was extended to a new terminus at Holland Park. Trams commenced operation on the route on Sunday 1 August 1926. In 1930, the tram line was sought to be further extended towards Mount Gravatt. In 1970 a new church building was constructed on the site, with the former church relocated to the rear of the site. The Grace Bible Church which now occupies the site is not affiliated with the Baptist Union. Holland Park State School opened on 28 January 1929. Mount Thompson Crematorium officially opened on Sunday 9 September 1934, Queensland's first crematorium. Construction of the Catholic school commenced on Sunday 26 July 1936 when Duhig placed the foundation stone for school. On Sunday 1 November 1936 Duhig officially opened Saint Joachim's school, announcing that a brick church would soon be built alongside the school. The school commenced operation on 1 February 1938 operated by the Sisters of Saint Joseph. During World War II, the United States Army established the 42nd General Hospital with over 2000 beds on Logan Road in 1942. After the war, Brisbane had a housing shortage and people began squatting in some of the American army hospital huts, then owned by the Australian Government. In 1947, the Queensland Government began to convert the huts to be more suitable for housing and the squatters became official tenants of the Queensland Housing Commission. In January 1950, residents of one area applied to have the Marshall Road area named Holland Park West. Cavendish Road State High School opened on 9 April 1951. In 1964, Saint Joachin's Catholic primary school expanded with the opening of a secondary school for girls called Saint Joseph's High School for Girls. The secondary school opened with 93 girls under the direction of principal Sister Margaret Mary Campbell assisted by Sister Pius Cassidy and Sister Mary Rose. In 1970 Saint Joseph's relocated to Klumpp Road, Mount Gravatt and was renamed McKillop College after Sister Mary McKillop, the founder of the Sisters of Saint Joseph's. McKillop College was neighbour to Clairvaux College, a Catholic secondary school for boys. The Holland Park Library opened in 1980 with a major refurbishment in 2015.

The recorded 7,849 residents in Holland Park, of whom 52% were female and 48% were male. The median age of the population was 35; two years younger than the Australian median. 77.3% of people living in Holland Park were born in Australia, compared to the national average of 69.8%. The other most common countries of birth were England (3.2%), New Zealand (2.9%), India (0.9%), Somalia (0.7%), and Scotland (0.6%). 85.1% of people only spoke English at home, while the next most commonly spoken languages were Greek (1.2%), Somali (1.1%), Spanish (0.9%), Arabic (0.8%), and Hindi (0.7%). In the , Holland Park had a population of 8,111 people.

Holland Park State School is a government primary (Prep–6) school for boys and girls at 59 Abbotsleigh Street In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 853 students with 62 teachers (49 full time equivalent) and 41 non teaching staff (23 full time equivalent). Saint Joachim's School is a Catholic primary (Prep–6) school for boys and girls at 41 Yuletide Street In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 303 students with 24 teachers (19 full time equivalent) and 19 non teaching staff (8 full time equivalent). In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 130 students with 16 teachers (13 full time equivalent) and 9 non teaching staff (5 full time equivalent). In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 1688 students with 126 teachers (117 full time equivalent) and 55 non teaching staff (35 full time equivalent).

The Brisbane City Council operates a public library at 81 Seville Road.