page_title: Ithaca Embankments
section_title: Heritage listing
hierarchical_section_title: Ithaca Embankments / Heritage listing
caption_attribution_description: English: Suburb of Paddington, Brisbane, 1929. View of the houses of Paddington, Brisbane, taken from Enoggera Terrace looking towards Latrobe Terrace.The Paddington Tram Depot is visible on the left.
context_page_description: Ithaca Embankments is a heritage-listed group of embankments in the former Town of Ithaca and now in the suburbs of Kelvin Grove, Red Hill and Paddington in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. They were designed by Alexander Jolly and built from c. 1917 to c. 1923. They were added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 2 March 1993.
context_section_description: Ithaca Embankments were listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 2 March 1993 having satisfied the following criteria.
  The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history.
  The Ithaca Embankments are important in demonstrating the evolution of the Town of Ithaca, providing evidence of the active involvement of the Ithaca Town Council in landscape improvements, and its conscious attempt to enhance the quality of life for Ithaca residents in the early part of the 20th century.
  The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.
  They are important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of the Ithaca Town Council's early 20th century street beautification projects, being some of the best surviving examples, and provide important surviving evidence of stone retaining wall and edging techniques practised by Brisbane's public landscape gardeners in the early 20th century.
  The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.
  They exhibit aesthetic characteristics valued by the community, in particular their contribution to the townscape of Brisbane's inner western suburbs.
  The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland's history.
  They are significant also for their special association with the work of Ithaca Town Council's landscape gardener, Alexander Jolly, and his transformation of the Ithaca townscape in the early 20th century.
caption: View of Paddington in 1929, taken from Enoggera Terrace looking towards Latrobe Terrace.
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