[1] Cliffside Apartments, a five-storey masonry building prominently located on the cliffs at Kangaroo Point, was built in 1936–37 to the design of architect and engineer Ronald Martin Wilson.

At the time that Mrs Booth bought the site it was a sheer cliff of solid porphyry with a railway and wharves at its base.

[1] Mrs Booth was born in 1895 in a house named Cliffside next to the railway gates on the Kangaroo Point Cliffs.

She was the only resident white woman in the Bulolo Valley and stayed there alone (in her house, also named Cliffside) while her husband prospected at Edie Creek.

[1] Mrs Booth returned to New Guinea in 1929 and gradually wrested control over the family business affairs from her husband, from whom she separated in 1932.

Judge F. B. Phillips held that British and Australian Acts passed before 1921 superseded the common law notion of male control of joint property and gave Mrs Booth the verdict.

The judgement was upheld in a subsequent appeal in the High Court of Australia and territorial law was amended by the Status of Married Women Ordinance 1935-36.

Burns Philp had financed the Booths' first foray into the goldfields of New Guinea and Wilson and his father had provided extensive architectural services to the company.

A Special Note in the Bill of Quantities stated that "Contractors are advised to visit and inspect the site and satisfy themselves as to the nature of excavations to be carried out, as it is anticipated rock will be met with.

Plumbing connections were housed in a special duct with access from outside the building so that maintenance and repairs could take place without bothering the tenants.

The building is of load-bearing cavity brick construction finished alternately in face brickwork and cement render.

The northern elevation facing the Brisbane River is dominated by large hexagonal bay windows projecting from the corners of the building.

Steps and paths edged with Brisbane tuff drawn from the site encircle the building and lead to the various front doors of individual flats.

An expanse of lawn overlooks the river on the level of the first floor flats and laundry area and is retained with a large concrete and tuff sloping wall.

Entry doors are high mid-rail timber with decorative leadlight upper panels, some having complimentary windows located close by.

Back doors are located on the southern elevation, accessed by landings off a central dogleg stair housed within a timber, fibro and lattice stairwell.

Features include a number of built-in storage units and a kitchen-dining room servery with leadlight windows.

Cliffside Apartments is important for demonstrating the pattern of residential development in Brisbane during the interwar period when large numbers of flat buildings were constructed.

The increase in the number of flats in the mid 1930s demonstrates the rapid growth of Brisbane's population and the subsequent high demand for accommodation due to a shortage of housing.

The principal investor in Cliffside was a woman, illustrative of the growing connection between women and property investment and flats in the interwar period.