[3] Frank Longland was an articled pupil of former Queensland Colonial Architect Francis Drummond Greville Stanley.
Longland built up a small but successful architectural practice in Brisbane spanning the years 1893 to 1924.
He appears to have been a progressive architect who followed the latest in contemporary European architectural trends, his work ranging from the freestyle facade of the Acme Engineering Works (1912) to the restrained functionality of the 1918 Howes Brothers produce store at the corner of Petrie Terrace and Sexton Street.
Of functionalist appearance in contrast to similar buildings of the period, the latter seems remarkably modern in outlook.
[4] His funeral on 17 July 1934 left his home Hayslope, Tennyson Road, Yeerongpilly for the Toowong Cemetery.