It was named after Princess Alice of the United Kingdom.

[2] In a pocket of land between a curve of the Brisbane River and Alice Street is the City Botanic Gardens and Parliament House.

Access to the Gardens Point QUT campus and the Riverside Expressway is provided at the western end of the street.

[3] Brisbane Ferries operated from the eastern end as early as the 1860s.

Alice Street has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: Australian Roads portal Media related to Alice Street, Brisbane at Wikimedia Commons