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 | Alfredson Jonery Anistory of ‘Cooran Pre-cut House[...] |
| [...]RICATED HOUSES 3. QUEENSLAND PASTORAL SUPPLIES 4. ALFREDSON’S JOINERY 5. ALFREDSON’S HENRY STREET HOUSES 7 HENRY STREET 11 HENRY S[...]NRY STREET 4 HENRY STREET 9 HENRY STREET 6. OTHER ALFREDSON HOUSES 7. CONCLUSION 11 18 45 47 49 49 49[...] |
| [...]//hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/132166. 25 2022, ’Alfredson's Joinery, Pre-Cut House Workshop and Sawm[...] |
| [...]ts for the ready-to-build houses were produced at Alfredson’s Joinery workshop at Cooran, rather than by QPS. Effectively, they were the agent for the Alfredson pre-cut houses. It’s not clear whether QPS approached Alfredson’s with the concept of including the houses in their mail-order catalogues or vice-versa. Alfredson’s always claimed that it was their idea, with Q[...]for the Cooran houses were certainly designed by Alfredson’s, however. 39 Queensland Pastoral Supp[...] |
| 4 ALFREDSON S JOINERY Mervyn William Henry Alfredson was born in Nambour on 2 April 1912. He was the son of Danish immigrant, Thorvald Peter Alfredson (known as Peter), and Margaret, née Miller, who[...]Cooran from Childers in August 1926. At age 16, Alfredson started an apprenticeship as a cabinetmaker with[...]ccording to an account by his daughter, Jeanette, Alfredson established a woodworking business and on 4 Augus[...]rentice during the course of his term of apprent Alfredson’s apprenticeship indenture, 1927 and a receipt[...], http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article76849428. 42 Alfredson, Mervyn William Henry, Apprenticeship file, Queensland State Archives, 1TM3240918. 43 ibid. Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 18 |
| It's not clear where Alfredson was operating his business from in these early da[...]8 February 1933, the council tentatively approved Alfredson’s plan of subdividing an allotment out of a lar[...]the block of land was officially transferred into Alfredson’s ownership. The land measured just under a quarter of an acre and Alfredson established a purpose-built joinery workshop ther[...]e business must have been successful, as by 1936, Alfredson was already applying to Noosa Shire Council for permission to extend the building and build a garage.46 Alfredson’s first joinery workshop, 1932, unknown location in Cooran.*” From M.¥.Alfredson, submitting plans of a building roposed to be ere[...]pproved subject to payment of he prescribed fee. Alfredson’s application to build the joinery at Cooran, 1[...]://heritage.noosa.qid.gov.au/nodes/view/18618 47 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 48 Noosa[...] |
| [...]n King Street in 1934 (top) and 1935 (bottom).49 Alfredson is first listed on the Electoral Roll as a cabine[...]no electricity supply in Cooran at this time and Alfredson powered the machinery and workshop using a diesel[...]derneath the factory. In addition to timber work, Alfredson also charged batteries, repaired bicycles and bou[...]ity was supplied to the factory in the 1940s. 49 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 20 |
| In August 1937, Alfredson married Mavis Miller at the Cooran Methodist Chur[...]remains under the present joinery. In June 1937, Alfredson purchased a house and an acre of land on the west[...], Cooran, from Charlotte Nielsen. This became the Alfredson’s family home and remained in the ownership of the family until 2020. Wedding at Cooran. ALFREDSON—MILLER. On Saturday, 28th August, the Methodis[...]d Mrs. W. L. Miller, Cooran, end Mr. Mervyn W. H. Alfredson, second son of Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Alfredson, of Cannon Hill, and formerly of Cooran.[...] |
| Mervyn and Mavis.5" 51 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 22 |
| [...]940 and in front of 7 Henry Street, Cooran.52 52 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 23 |
| Alfredson was reportedly rejected for defence service durin[...]d War, as he was in a reserved industry. However, Alfredson’s workshop supplied the Army with timber tent f[...]the natural light internally. In September 1942, Alfredson purchased an additional 3 roods and 11 perches (j[...]//heritage.noosa.qid.gov.au/nodes/view/18523. 55 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 24 |
| [...]n, unknown date (top) and c1940s (bottom).°6 56 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 25 |
| Photos of the joinery c1940s.5” 57 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 26 |
| [...]n July 1944, to cut and supply timber directly to Alfredson's operation, rather than purchasing it from a thi[...]proposed houses were to be designed and built by Alfredson’s .6° 58 ‘Building Certificate of Approval’, 16 May 1947, issued by Shire of Noosa, Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 59 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 60 ‘Proposed Layout of New Mill Site for Messrs M .W. Alfredson & Co. Widgee’, Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 27 |
| [...]of the new Widgee Sawmill site.6" In 1944, M. W. Alfredson & Company was formed in partnership with Robert R[...]orld War. In October 1944, a one quarter share in Alfredson’s total landholding of just over one acre, was[...]other three quarter shares remaining with Mervyn Alfredson. After the Second World War, Alfredson recognised the need for housing in Queensland, pa[...]Proposed Layout of New Mill Site for Messrs M .W. Alfredson & Co. Widgee’, Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 62 Noosa[...] |
| [...]) and inside the joinery workshop (bottom).® 63 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 29 |
| [...]the eastern side to create an office for Jeanette Alfredson, and became known as the "front office" of the jo[...]eath were quarters for the single men employed by Alfredson’s. This area survives and forms the eastern sid[...]g Street. The front office and garage. ® 64 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 30 |
| In 1962, Alfredson purchased a Berlin triple drum sander from Big Ri[...]afton, NSW for £450. The sander was picked up by Alfredson’s scrub boss and truck driver, Kevin Hambleton and driven back to Alfredson’s. The sander was an incredibly heavy ma[...] |
| [...]were transported door-to-door by road. One of Alfredson’s original stencils, used to label components and a scale model of an Alfredson pre-cut Hibiscus Model 2 house frame, 1965.6 66 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. Stencil ph[...] |
| [...]me mainly from around the Widgee and Gympie area. Alfredson’s engaged contractors to fell the timber, or removed it themselves and it was then processed at the Alfredson’s Widgee mill and transported to the workshop b[...]injuries and fatalities were common. Tragically, Alfredson’s “scrub boss”, the man overseeing the timb[...]ly new Austin truck and semi-trailer belonging to Alfredson’s were lost during one of these journeys, when[...]ump clear. The houses were initially designed by Alfredson, but were similar to those being built elsewhere[...]he range of pre-cut house designs manufactured by Alfredson’s expanded over the years. In ac1960s QPS catal[...]n, designated Cooran Model Number 15.68 Surviving Alfredson house plans in the Noosa Shire Museum collection[...]fficult to compile a definitive reference list of Alfredson house styles. Eventually, at least 10 different standard pre-cut house models were produced by Alfredson’s, ranging from one-bedroom holiday cabins to l[...]ks and building societies. In addition to houses, Alfredson’s also produced pre-cut kits for garages and ou[...]on a blue background). This method of copying the Alfredson house plans was eventually replaced by dyeline pr[...]. Ltd. 1956 QPS News, June 1956, copy held in the Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 69 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 33 |
| [...]print for a Cooran Model 3 house, May 1957.71 70 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 71 ibid. 34 |
| Alfredson calculated all the measurements for the house tim[...]d Semen to gs = they're probably the tovgtes Alfredson’s “rod”, with scaled measurements for the h[...]iscus number 7 as part of a 1964 article.’2 72 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 35 |
| [...]ssful. It is estimated that between 1200 and 1300 Alfredson pre- cut houses were supplied by the joinery, inc[...]a New Guinea and in the Solomon Islands. In 1965, Alfredson’s produced and shipped 62 pre-cut houses for th[...]ction and one of the completed homes, 1965.73 73 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 1965, ‘Bauxite[...], Sunday Truth, 21 November, p. 55, clipping held Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 36 |
| [...]gns, whilst numbers 33 and 35 are likely standard Alfredson pre-cut designs. Anumber of Western Queensland ca[...]ected them themselves for their workers. Locally, Alfredson built five houses on Henry Street, Cooran, for me[...]t and are discussed in more detail in Section 5. Alfredson’s also supplied substantial amounts of pine mou[...]lthough the pre-cut houses became a major part of Alfredson’s business, they also continued to manufacture[...]windows and doors, as well as furniture. In 1985, Alfredson’s built the altar and lectern for the new Catho[...]Commission plan; the house built in that style by Alfredson’s at 29 Queen Street, Cooran and another QHC ho[...], The Leader, 31 March, p. 25. , clipping held in Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 75 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. Google str[...] |
| [...]ame from Tewantin, Nambour, Traveston and Gympie. Alfredson’s also provided work for logging contractors, c[...]and nearby towns continued to be employed by M.W. Alfredson & Company. Mavis and Jeanette also retained crucial roles in the everyday operations of Alfredson’s. Although Jeanette began with the administrat[...]through QPS had ended and from this time onwards, Alfredson’s market changed from supplying pre-cut houses[...]addition to designing and building these houses, Alfredson often also built and installed elements of the in[...]de before it spread to other buildings.’” 76 Alfredson |
| Mervyn Alfredson died in 1973, after he was hit by a falling limb[...]re in various stages of completion at the time of Alfredson’s death, were all finished. Mervyn's share of t[...]ber joinery in houses and buildings. As a result, Alfredson’s began to transition to producing more special[...]building when run by Mavis and Jeanette.’8 78 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 39 |
| [...]Mavis passed away the following year. The former Alfredson’s workshop and joinery building and the surroun[...]nd on King Street, originally purchased by Mervyn Alfredson in 1933 (Lot 38) was split equally between Kidman[...]Kidman Pty. Ltd. continued to own all of Lot 41 (Alfredson's 1942 land purchase). In 1998, the total acreage previously owned by Alfredson was subdivided into its current configuration. Alfredson's complex now stands on Lot 42, a combination of[...]2019. Jeanette donated an extensive collection of Alfredson’s records, plans and other items, which remain[...]tively unchanged from when it was in operation by Alfredson’s. 40 |
| 0. ALFREDSONS HENRY STREET HOUSES Alfredson built a number of houses for employees of the joi[...]6, 9 and 11. The location was convenient for the Alfredson family and their staff, being just to the west of the workshop. Number 7 was not built by Alfredson’s, but it was Mervyn, Mavis and Jeanette’s home for decades. Alfredson purchased four blocks of land on the western side[...]blocks were built on and sold off to employees of Alfredson’s. The exception to this is 2 Henry Street and[...]ng Street, which remained in the ownership of the Alfredson family until at least 1982. N=Ro, SS == aoe ad: "Gera Pinbarren Teen, ri Alfredson’s land on Henry Street. The land shown in blue[...]ember 1945, one quarter share of the ownership of Alfredson’s Henry Street land was transferred to his part[...]inery business, Robert Reid Brown. On 8 May 1946, Alfredson’s application to council for permission[...] |
| [...]for approval to build submitted by | “" | M.w.Alfredson asking that certain work be carried out in Henry[...]e street, the earliest available, shows houses on Alfredson’s land at these numbers, which is consistent wi[...]53 aerial photograph, showing the houses built by Alfredson’s by that date. The houses at today’s number[...]treet survive as examples of homes constructed by Alfredson’s. However, as the firm only began produ[...] |
| 7 HENRY STREET According to Jeanette Alfredson, the house at number 7 Henry Street was moved to[...]during the Nielsen’s ownership. In June 1937, Alfredson purchased Charlotte’s property on Henry Street.[...]enry Frederick Walker, survives in the archive of Alfredson’s papers held at the Noosa Shire Museum. It records that Alfredson purchased it for £49. Alfredson married Mavis only two months after buying the He[...]t the property on the same day. In November 1942, Alfredson took out another mortgage over the property. This[...]on the western side of Henry Street, purchased by Alfredson in 1937. Charlotte and Soren Nielsen had moved a house to number 7 in about 1923, which became the Alfredson family home for many decades. 47 |
| [...], Cooran, 1937.8 7 Henry Street today. ® 83 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 84 Photogr[...] |
| [...]maker by trade, but was working as the foreman of Alfredson’s joinery at this date. As no record of the Llo[...]se could be found, it therefore seems likely that Alfredson built the house on this block for the Lloyds betw[...]was also a cabinet maker and it seems likely that Alfredson also built this house and then transferred ownership to his employee shortly afterwards. 6 HENRY STREET Alfredson’s joinery factory hand, John George Hillier and[...]1 March 1947. 4 HENRY STREET In September 1947, Alfredson and Brown took out a mortgage over the fou[...] |
| [...]re foot house valued at £1600 and to be built by Alfredson, was approved by Noosa Council at Cooran.®8 This[...]treet in September 1954 and it was transferred to Alfredson’s carpenter and foreman of the pre-cut house wo[...]mber of years, they later swapped houses with the Alfredson family and lived in number 7. Externally, the fr[...]<http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article78950296>. 89 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 50 |
| [...]au/sold/ property-house-qld-cooran-127465770. 91 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 51 |
| [...](top) and the floor plan in 2018 (bottom).92 92 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. ‘9 Henry[...] |
| 6. OTHER ALFREDSON HOUSES In addition to the Henry Street houses, a number of pre-cut and custom-designed homes built by Alfredson’s were identified during the research. Records of all custom homes produced by Alfredson’s survive in the collection of the Noosa Shire[...]s recommended to identify other surviving pre-cut Alfredson house examples. DATE LOCATION ADDRESS TYPE STATUS NOTES 31 (now 41) Barleycom Alfredson’s supplied Extant but many 1980s Buderim Ave custom French of the Alfredson doors only doors replaced "Aramac Shire 1953 Aram[...]Road Pre-cut altered are November Sherwood, Four Alfredson’s 1964 Brisbane Hood Street Pre-cut Unkn[...] |
| 7 CONCLUSION Alfredson's joinery was established by Mervyn Alfredson in 1933. It continued to expand its operations an[...]opened as a joinery business, in the post-war era Alfredson recognised the need for affordable, ready-to-buil[...]nd all the timber components were manufactured at Alfredson’s joinery and purpose-built pre-cut house workshop. Alfredson pre-cut houses were constructed locally as well a[...]further afield. Anumber of houses were built for Alfredson employees on Henry Street, Cooran and one of thes[...]s. Following Mervyn’s death, Mavis and Jeanette Alfredson continued to operate the business and it eventual[...]now houses a brewery and restaurant. The former Alfredson’s workshop complex survives as important eviden[...]gs connected with it have been lost. As a result, Alfredson’s former joinery complex is a rare surviving ex[...]a post-Second World War pre-cut house workshop. Alfredson's also remains as important evidence of the manuf[...]le. The homes on Henry Street at Cooran built by Alfredson’s, survive as important examples of locally pr[...]significance as the only identified example of an Alfredson pre-cut house design on the street. 54 |
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| Alfredson’s Joinery A history of “Cooran” Pre-[...] |
| Alfredson’s Joinery A history of “Cooran” Pre-[...] |
| [...]6 3. QUEENSLAND PASTORAL SUPPLIES 11 4. ALFREDSON’S JOINERY 18 5. ALFREDSON’S HENRY STREET HOUSES 45 7 HENRY STREET[...]9 HENRY STREET 50 6. OTHER ALFREDSON HOUSES 53 7. CONCLUSION[...] |
| [...]s://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/132166. 252022, ’Alfredson's Joinery, Pre-Cut House Workshop and Sawm[...] |
| [...]ts for the ready-to-build houses were produced at Alfredson’s Joinery workshop at Cooran, rather than by QPS. Effectively, they were the agent for the Alfredson pre-cut houses. It’s not clear whether QPS approached Alfredson’s with the concept of including the houses in their mail-order catalogues or vice-versa. Alfredson’s always claimed that it was their idea, with Q[...]for the Cooran houses were certainly designed by Alfredson’s, however. 39Queensland Pastoral Suppl[...] |
| 4. ALFREDSON’S JOINERY Mervyn William Henry Alfredson was born in Nambour on 2 April 1912. He was the son of Danish immigrant, Thorvald Peter Alfredson (known as Peter), and Margaret, née Miller, who[...]Cooran from Childers in August 1926. At age 16, Alfredson started an apprenticeship as a cabinetmaker with[...]ccording to an account by his daughter, Jeanette, Alfredson established a woodworking business and on 4 Augus[...]Committee on 10 November 1932. Alfredson’s apprenticeship indenture, 1927 and a receipt[...]http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article76849428. 42 Alfredson, Mervyn William Henry, Apprenticeship file, Queensland State Archives, ITM3240918. 43 ibid. Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum.[...] |
| It’s not clear where Alfredson was operating his business from in these early da[...]8 February 1933, the council tentatively approved Alfredson’s plan of subdividing an allotment out of a lar[...]the block of land was officially transferred into Alfredson’s ownership. The land measured just under a quarter of an acre and Alfredson established a purpose-built joinery workshop ther[...]e business must have been successful, as by 1936, Alfredson was already applying to Noosa Shire Council for p[...]g and build a garage.46 Alfredson’s first joinery workshop, 1932, unknown location in Cooran.47 Alfredson’s application to build the joinery at Cooran, 1[...]//heritage.noosa.qld.gov.au/nodes/view/18618 47 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 48Noosa Co[...] |
| [...]n King Street in 1934 (top) and 1935 (bottom).49 Alfredson is first listed on the Electoral Roll as a cabine[...]no electricity supply in Cooran at this time and Alfredson powered the machinery and workshop using a diesel[...]derneath the factory. In addition to timber work, Alfredson also charged batteries, repaired bicycles and bou[...]y was supplied to the factory in the 1940s. 49 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum.[...] |
| In August 1937, Alfredson married Mavis Miller at the Cooran Methodist Chur[...]remains under the present joinery. In June 1937, Alfredson purchased a house and an acre of land on the west[...], Cooran, from Charlotte Nielsen. This became the Alfredson’s family home and remained in the owners[...] |
| [...]Mervyn and Mavis.51 51 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum.[...] |
| [...]and in front of 7 Henry Street, Cooran.52 52 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum.[...] |
| Alfredson was reportedly rejected for defence service durin[...]d War, as he was in a reserved industry. However, Alfredson’s workshop supplied the Army with timber tent f[...]the natural light internally. In September 1942, Alfredson purchased an additional 3 roods and 11 perches (j[...]/heritage.noosa.qld.gov.au/nodes/view/18523. 55 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum.[...] |
| [...]nknown date (top) and c1940s (bottom).56 56 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum.[...] |
| [...]Photos of the joinery c1940s.57 57 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum.[...] |
| [...]n July 1944, to cut and supply timber directly to Alfredson's operation, rather than purchasing it from a thi[...]proposed houses were to be designed and built by Alfredson’s.60 58 ‘Building Certificate of Approval’, 16 May 1947, issued by Shire of Noosa, Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 59 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. ‘Proposed Layout of New Mill Site for Messrs M .W. Alfredson & Co. Widgee’, Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire 60 Museum.[...] |
| [...]f the new Widgee Sawmill site.61 In 1944, M. W. Alfredson & Company was formed in partnership with Robert R[...]orld War. In October 1944, a one quarter share in Alfredson’s total landholding of just over one acre, was[...]other three quarter shares remaining with Mervyn Alfredson. After the Second World War, Alfredson recognised the need for housing in Queensland, pa[...]Proposed Layout of New Mill Site for Messrs M .W. Alfredson & Co. Widgee’, Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire 61 Museum. 62Noos[...] |
| [...]and inside the joinery workshop (bottom).63 63 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum.[...] |
| [...]the eastern side to create an office for Jeanette Alfredson, and became known as the "front office" of the jo[...]eath were quarters for the single men employed by Alfredson’s. This area survives and forms the eastern sid[...]The front office and garage.64 64 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum.[...] |
| In 1962, Alfredson purchased a Berlin triple drum sander from Big Ri[...]afton, NSW for £450. The sander was picked up by Alfredson’s scrub boss and truck driver, Kevin Hambleton and driven back to Alfredson’s. The sander was an incredibly heavy ma[...] |
| [...]transported door-to-door by road. One of Alfredson’s original stencils, used to label components and a scale model of an Alfredson pre-cut Hibiscus Model 2 house frame, 1965.66 66 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. Stencil ph[...] |
| [...]me mainly from around the Widgee and Gympie area. Alfredson’s engaged contractors to fell the timber, or removed it themselves and it was then processed at the Alfredson’s Widgee mill and transported to the workshop b[...]injuries and fatalities were common. Tragically, Alfredson’s “scrub boss”, the man overseeing the timb[...]ly new Austin truck and semi-trailer belonging to Alfredson’s were lost during one of these journeys, when[...]ump clear. The houses were initially designed by Alfredson, but were similar to those being built elsewhere[...]he range of pre-cut house designs manufactured by Alfredson’s expanded over the years. In a c1960s QPS cata[...]n, designated Cooran Model Number 15.68 Surviving Alfredson house plans in the Noosa Shire Museum collection[...]fficult to compile a definitive reference list of Alfredson house styles. Eventually, at least 10 different standard pre-cut house models were produced by Alfredson’s, ranging from one-bedroom holiday cabins to l[...]ks and building societies. In addition to houses, Alfredson’s also produced pre-cut kits for garages and ou[...]on a blue background). This method of copying the Alfredson house plans was eventually replaced by dyeline pr[...]. Ltd. 1956 QPS News, June 1956, copy held in the Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 69 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum.[...] |
| [...]for a Cooran Model 3 house, May 1957.71 70 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 71 ibid.[...] |
| Alfredson calculated all the measurements for the house tim[...]eparately from the QPS suppliers in Brisbane. Alfredson’s “rod”, with scaled measurements for the h[...]as part of a 1964 article.72 72 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum.[...] |
| [...]ssful. It is estimated that between 1200 and 1300 Alfredson pre- cut houses were supplied by the joinery, inc[...]a New Guinea and in the Solomon Islands. In 1965, Alfredson’s produced and shipped 62 pre-cut houses for th[...]tion and one of the completed homes, 1965.73 73Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 1965, ‘Bauxite[...], Sunday Truth, 21 November, p. 55, clipping held Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum.[...] |
| [...]gns, whilst numbers 33 and 35 are likely standard Alfredson pre-cut designs. A number of Western Queensland c[...]ected them themselves for their workers. Locally, Alfredson built five houses on Henry Street, Cooran, for me[...]t and are discussed in more detail in Section 5. Alfredson’s also supplied substantial amounts of pine mou[...]lthough the pre-cut houses became a major part of Alfredson’s business, they also continued to manufacture[...]windows and doors, as well as furniture. In 1985, Alfredson’s built the altar and lectern for the new Catho[...]Commission plan; the house built in that style by Alfredson’s at 29 Queen Street, C[...], The Leader, 31 March, p. 25. , clipping held in Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. Google str[...] |
| [...]ame from Tewantin, Nambour, Traveston and Gympie. Alfredson’s also provided work for logging contractors, c[...]and nearby towns continued to be employed by M.W. Alfredson & Company. Mavis and Jeanette also retained crucial roles in the everyday operations of Alfredson’s. Although Jeanette began with the administrat[...]through QPS had ended and from this time onwards, Alfredson’s market changed from supplying pre-cut houses[...]addition to designing and building these houses, Alfredson often also built and installed elements of the in[...]gade before it spread to other buildings.77 76 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 771969 ‘[...] |
| Mervyn Alfredson died in 1973, after he was hit by a falling limb[...]re in various stages of completion at the time of Alfredson’s death, were all finished. Mervyn's share of t[...]ber joinery in houses and buildings. As a result, Alfredson’s began to transition to producing more special[...]building when run by Mavis and Jeanette.78 78 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum.[...] |
| [...]Mavis passed away the following year. The former Alfredson’s workshop and joinery building and the surroun[...]nd on King Street, originally purchased by Mervyn Alfredson in 1933 (Lot 38) was split equally between Kidman[...]Kidman Pty. Ltd. continued to own all of Lot 41 (Alfredson's 1942 land purchase). In 1998, the total acreage previously owned by Alfredson was subdivided into its current configuration. Alfredson's complex now stands on Lot 42, a combination of[...]2019. Jeanette donated an extensive collection of Alfredson’s records, plans and other items, which remain[...]tively unchanged from when it was in operation by Alfredson’s.[...] |
| 5. ALFREDSON’S HENRY STREET HOUSES Alfredson built a number of houses for employees of the joi[...]6, 9 and 11. The location was convenient for the Alfredson family and their staff, being just to the west of the workshop. Number 7 was not built by Alfredson’s, but it was Mervyn, Mavis and Jeanette’s home for decades. Alfredson purchased four blocks of land on the western side[...]blocks were built on and sold off to employees of Alfredson’s. The exception to this is 2 Henry Street and[...]ng Street, which remained in the ownership of the Alfredson family until at least 1982. Alfredson’s land on Henry Street. The land shown in blue[...]ember 1945, one quarter share of the ownership of Alfredson’s Henry Street land was transferred to his part[...]inery business, Robert Reid Brown. On 8 May 1946, Alfredson’s application to council for permission[...] |
| [...]e street, the earliest available, shows houses on Alfredson’s land at these numbers, which is consistent wi[...]53 aerial photograph, showing the houses built by Alfredson’s by that date. The houses at today’s number[...]treet survive as examples of homes constructed by Alfredson’s. However, as the firm only began produ[...] |
| 7 HENRY STREET According to Jeanette Alfredson, the house at number 7 Henry Street was moved to[...]during the Nielsen’s ownership. In June 1937, Alfredson purchased Charlotte’s property on Henry Street.[...]enry Frederick Walker, survives in the archive of Alfredson’s papers held at the Noosa Shire Museum. It records that Alfredson purchased it for £49. Alfredson married Mavis only two months after buying the He[...]t the property on the same day. In November 1942, Alfredson took out another mortgage over the property. This[...]on the western side of Henry Street, purchased by Alfredson in 1937. Charlotte and Soren Nielsen had moved a house to number 7 in about 1923, which became the Alfredson family home for many decades.[...] |
| [...]7 Henry Street today.84 83 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum. 84 Photo[...] |
| [...]maker by trade, but was working as the foreman of Alfredson’s joinery at this date. As no record of the Llo[...]se could be found, it therefore seems likely that Alfredson built the house on this block for the Lloyds betw[...]was also a cabinet maker and it seems likely that Alfredson also built this house and then transferred ownership to his employee shortly afterwards. 6 HENRY STREET Alfredson’s joinery factory hand, John George Hillier and[...]1 March 1947. 4 HENRY STREET In September 1947, Alfredson and Brown took out a mortgage over the fou[...] |
| [...]re foot house valued at £1600 and to be built by Alfredson, was approved by Noosa Council at Cooran.88 This[...]treet in September 1954 and it was transferred to Alfredson’s carpenter and foreman of the pre-cut house wo[...]mber of years, they later swapped houses with the Alfredson family and lived in number 7. Externally, the fr[...]http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article78950296>. 89 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum.[...] |
| [...]u/sold/ property-house-qld-cooran-127465770. 91 Alfredson Collection, Noosa Shire Museum.[...] |
| 6. OTHER ALFREDSON HOUSES In addition to the Henry Street houses, a number of pre-cut and custom-designed homes built by Alfredson’s were identified during the research. Records of all custom homes produced by Alfredson’s survive in the collection of the Noosa Shire[...]s recommended to identify other surviving pre-cut Alfredson house examples. DATE LOCATION[...]Alfredson’s supplied Extant but many[...]custom French of the Alfredson Ave[...]Alfredson c1976 Cooran 50 King Street[...]Four Alfredson’s Hood Stree[...] |
| 7. CONCLUSION Alfredson's joinery was established by Mervyn Alfredson in 1933. It continued to expand its operations an[...]opened as a joinery business, in the post-war era Alfredson recognised the need for affordable, ready-to-buil[...]nd all the timber components were manufactured at Alfredson’s joinery and purpose-built pre-cut house workshop. Alfredson pre-cut houses were constructed locally as well a[...]further afield. A number of houses were built for Alfredson employees on Henry Street, Cooran and one of thes[...]s. Following Mervyn’s death, Mavis and Jeanette Alfredson continued to operate the business and it eventual[...]now houses a brewery and restaurant. The former Alfredson’s workshop complex survives as important eviden[...]gs connected with it have been lost. As a result, Alfredson’s former joinery complex is a rare surviving ex[...]a post-Second World War pre-cut house workshop. Alfredson's also remains as important evidence of the manuf[...]le. The homes on Henry Street at Cooran built by Alfredson’s, survive as important examples of locally pro[...]significance as the only identified example of an Alfredson pre-cut house design on the street.[...] |
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| Alfredson Family | |
| Alfredson's Joinery | |
| Alfredson's Sawmill, Pre-cut House Workshop and Join[...] | |
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Alfredson's Joinery: A history of "Cooran" Pre-cut Houses (May 2024). Heritage Noosa, accessed 29/09/2026, https://heritage.noosa.qld.gov.au/nodes/view/21688
