Endrim is a residence built above the Toowong terminus in 1906 by the Brisbane Tramway Company for its general manager Joseph Stillman "Boss" Badger.

The passenger waiting shelter shed was built at the terminus in 1924 by the Brisbane Tramway Trust at the request of the Toowong Progress Association.

The Metropolitan Tramways Company (MTC) was granted a construction order for a line from Woolloongabba to Breakfast Creek in April 1884.

Steel rails were ordered from English steelworks Dick Kerr and Co, laid from January 1885, and full services started in May 1886.

[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] Residents petitioned the company to extend tramlines to the suburbs, with lines opened to Bulimba, New Farm and Boundary Street in 1886.

[13][14][15][16][17][18][1] The Brisbane Tramways Company (BTC), created by a London syndicate in 1895, purchased the MTC later that year and took over tram operations.

It quickly embarked on electrifying the tramway system, engaging American company General Electric (GE), which sent engineer Joseph Stillman Badger to Brisbane to oversee the project.

Intending to make the Brisbane tramway system "an exhibition one for Australia",[19] Badger ran the first electric tram on 21 June 1897, just over a year after his arrival.

[41][42][43][44][45][46][1] Amidst BTC's growth, Badger moved into boarding accommodation in the city while his wife and sons lived in America for the boys' education.

In 1905 BTC employees acquired an 1870s villa, Collina, and its nearly 2-acre (8,100 m2) elevated site, fronting Woodstock Road and adjacent to the Toowong tram terminus.

In 1906, with Carrie Badger and their youngest son due to return to Brisbane, construction began on a new house to replace Collina.

The rails, stamped "DICK KERR & CO PHOENIX 1884", were from the first order for MTC's horse-drawn tram system and had been removed as part of BTC's electrification upgrade.

[53][54][55][56][57][1] BTC's Superintendent of Buildings, William McLean, called for tenders for excavating and levelling a site in Toowong, likely for the Badgers' residence, in April 1906.

Well-educated, energetic and credited with the tramway system's success, he was a symbol of cosmopolitan progress and was a member of one of Brisbane's elite social circles.

On 18 January 1912, 480 of 550 BTC employees donned union badges in a coordinated show of strength, and were suspended or dismissed from duty.

Badger did remain in Brisbane long enough to ferry voters to the Toowong election polls in his own motor car in April 1912.

Trude was an enthusiastic gardener, and used flowers from the property as decoration in numerous socials, teas and wedding parties held at the house between the 1930s and 1950s.

From its position, the house is afforded attractive views to the surrounding suburbs and the distant CBD, access to prevailing summer breezes from the northeast, and favourable solar orientation.

The grounds are heavily planted on its boundaries, providing a sense of lush privacy, featuring impressive camphor laurels (Cinnamomum camphora) and poincianas (Delonix regia).

The gateway comprises tall stone pillars topped by concrete spheres and a decorative wrought iron pedestrian gate.

[1] The house is high-set and has a rectangular core clad with chamferboards, sheltered by a wide wrap-around verandah on its front (north) and (east and west) sides.

The northern dormer has large timber-framed double-hung sash windows flanking a central door onto a narrow unroofed balcony nested within the roof above the former front entrance.

[1] A small room of unknown use, accessed by double doors, stands independently under the house comprising part-height brick walls.

[1] The interior layout is intact with VJ lined partitions and ceilings, moulded timber skirting boards, cornice, architraves, and dado rails.

The dining room has a handsome fireplace with a clear-finished timber surround that includes glazed tiles, shelves, and mirror.

The walls and ceiling have been relined, however, it retains a double-sided chimney breast with a wide kitchen fireplace and wash tub hob.

[1] The shed is an open-sided, rectangular, freestanding pavilion with an unlined hipped roof supported by robust corner posts with curved bracing brackets.

[1] At the rear of the shelter is a timber-framed infill panel between the upper part of the posts lined with flat sheet material and timber cover battens.

Notable for its excellent craftsmanship including particularly fine timber joinery, it features a skilful arrangement of generous and refined living spaces evoking a sense of sophisticated suburban domesticity.

Badger was instrumental in the early electrification and expansion of the Brisbane tram network, an important advancement of this prominent and integral public transport system.