Royal George Hotel and Ruddle's Building
Royal George Hotel and Ruddle's Building is a heritage-listed hotel at 323-335 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from to the 1960s. It is also known as Bush & Commercial Inn, Commercial Inn, Freemasons Arms, and Ruddle's Corner. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 3 August 1998.
Main Roads Building
The new head office was commended at the time. It featured in the 7 September 1967 edition of The Queensland Master Builder, which detailed the building's construction techniques and highlighted its modern technology. According to the MRD's magazine Queensland Roads, there were hopes ""that the construction of this building with its landscaped gardens and surroundings in the old Spring Hill area of Brisbane, [would] provide an incentive for other businesses and developers to follow the example of the Main Roads Department"". Commissioner Barton viewed the MRD as "a giant consulting engineers and construction organisation", and stated ""why should a department like Main Roads be any different from private business ... [W]e hope that when our officers are dealing with people they will get the idea that we are here to do business just as efficiently and effectively as anybody else in the community"." The Courier-Mail added that ""the building design, layout of office space and staff facilities, gives the Main Roads Department an air of big business, not the traditional Government department organisation"", while the Mines and Main Roads Minister, Ronald Ernest Camm, claimed that the new building ""would be one of the most effective ways of organising Main Roads personnel and facilities for a bolder attack on the problems of the future"".