[1] Constructed in 1926, the Bulletin Building was built by R Cousins & Company, to a design by prominent Rockhampton architect, Roy Chipps.

In 1911, McIlwraith and Blair were followed by three generations of the Dunn family company, who carried the Bulletin into the modern age and the subsequent competition of electronic media.

[1] The original home of The Morning Bulletin was in Quay Street near the Customs House in a timber building owned by John Ward.

[1] It was during McIlwraith's ownership, in the early 1880s when, with increases in the local population and the circulation of the paper, the Denham Street building became too small to house the growing staff.

By 11 March 1911, a new era had begun for The Morning Bulletin, following Andrew Dunn Snr's purchase of the newspaper form William McIlwraith.

Chipps trained as an architect in New South Wales, moving to Brisbane in 1917 to commence an architectural practice, forming a partnership with CH Griffin from 1919 to 1922.

In 1923, following a move to Rockhampton, Chipps established a thriving practice which operated until 1936, when he was joined in partnership by WC Nichols.

The funds have been earmarked for payment of existing debts and to allow for expansion of operations in their various plants, updating of computers and other facilities.

[3] But despite the newspaper's editor, Frazer Pearce, favourably describing the Fitzroy Street building as "decades ahead" for the functionality of an evolving business,[2] The Morning Bulletin only remained at the address for approximately six months.

In August 2015, it was announced former Rockhampton resident Bevan Slattery had purchased the old Bulletin Building in Quay Street.

At the time of purchase, Slattery said that he didn't have any firm plans for the Bulletin Building but hoped to eventually create a space to expand his business while helping other start-up companies.

Large window openings line the facade; these are filled with non-original glazing in modern aluminium frames.

The parapet of the building is curved along its length rising in the centre with a small semi-circular projection on which is relief lettering, EST 1861.

Early remaining internal elements include four sets of steel-framed windows along the eastern side of the building and timber doors leading to the press room at the southern end of the first floor.

[1] The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland's history.

The Bulletin Building is significant as an example of the work of the architect Roy Chipps in this architectural style during his long practice in Rockhampton.

It is also especially significant for its association with the Dunn family who owned the newspaper for over seventy years and had the Bulletin Building designed and constructed.