page_title: Elina Mottram
section_title: Architectural work
hierarchical_section_title: Elina Mottram / Architectural work
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Scott Street Flats from riverside park at Kangaroo Point, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
context_page_description: Elina Emily Mottram, was an England-born architect trained in Brisbane. She was Queensland’s first and longest practicing female architect, practicing and establishing her own business in Brisbane from 1924 to 1975. Mottram died at the age of 93 in 1996.
context_section_description: In August 1924, the year she opened her practice, Elina Mottram designed a block of four flats at 
  Moray Street New Farm for her client Frank Elliot and called for the tenders for the constructed building with specific requirements for reinforced concrete.
  Elina designed a Tudor revival style residence for Zina Beatrice Selwyn Cumbrae-Stewart (an impassioned community worker whose husband Francis William Sutton Cumbrae-Stewart later became the registrar of the University of Queensland). Later called the Scott Street Flats it is one of the two remaining of Mottram’s architecture that still stands. These units boast of views to the Brisbane River and modern community-friendly walkways that were stylish during the 1920s with its use of wide bay windows and a distinctive view across to the Brisbane’s Custom house.
  Elina Mottram also worked as an architect in Longreach between 1926-1928 and Rockhampton from 1928-1929.
  In Longreach, she designed civic public buildings that include the Masonic Temple, Longreach Motors and the office of Winchcombe Carson Ltd. Evidence of her work also include the remodelling of the Australian Workers' Union building and the School of Arts.
  Her architecture career was stalled during the 1930s depression shortly after Mottram registered as an architect with the Royal Australian Institute of Architects in 1930. During this period, she worked as a postmistress at Raglan via Rockhampton till 1936.
  In partnership with her father, as A & E Mottram, she worked in Rockhampton in 1937 and later in Longreach 1938-1941. During this period, she played the role of foreman of works for her father in support for the first stage of construction of the Longreach Hospital (completed 1940). She was later employed as a draftswoman with the American Army Engineering Office in North Rockhampton in World War II.
  After the war, Mottram became the first woman architect to work with the Queensland Railways and designed the Eagle Junction railway station.
  Other residential commissions by Mottram include a two-storeyed block of flats in Scott Street at Kangaroo Point c1925, a Tudor revival residence for Zina Cumbrae-Stewart overlooking the river, and a residence for Mrs Thurlby on the corner of Winchester and Hants Roads Ascot (now demolished).
caption: Scott Street Flats, viewed from the river bank below, 2015
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