[1] The Scott Street Flats, a two storey building of masonry and timber built in c. 1925 for Professor Frank and Mrs Zina Cumbrae-Stewart was designed by Elina Mottram, a pioneer woman architect in Queensland.

In 2013 the property was sold to GDW Investments for $3.3 million with the intention to develop a high rise apartment on the site.

The Queensland Magazine of May 1925 reported that in Kangaroo Point there were "many beautiful homes still occupied by tenants who have no desire to cut up their gardens to make room for small villas" but that "some very modern flats have sprung up".

It was an enterprising move on the part of Mrs Cumbrae-Stewart to build the flats with the dual purpose of investment and providing a convenient home for her husband and herself in their latter years.

Tender notices in the Architectural and Building Journal of Queensland indicate that the number of new flats being constructed grew steadily in the early to mid 1920s, reaching record levels in 1929.

The amount of built-in storage is a significant feature – the kitchen, bathroom and bedrooms are all equipped with sensibly detailed, space efficient units.

The Scott Street flats are carefully planned to enable back-of-house movement between bathroom, kitchen, laundry and maid's room on the southern side of the building whilst maintaining formal living spaces and bedrooms orientated to the North and to city and river views.

The two-way drawers and narrow door from maid's room to entry hall are features that allowed the residents to maintain their genteel lifestyles in the new domestic environment of a flat.

[1] Both Mrs Cumbrae-Stewart and her husband Frank (Francis) were prominent and active citizens of Brisbane early in the century.

Frank Cumbrae-Stewart was a barrister and King's Counsel and was appointed the foundation registrar and librarian of the new University of Queensland in 1910.

Zina Cumbrae-Stewart was the first woman to speak from the platform of the Brisbane City Hall and had early involvement in educational broadcasting.

Certainly, Mrs Cumbrae-Stewart was a member of the Lyceum Club in Brisbane and it appears that she took responsibility for most of the family's financial dealings.

In fact, of the small group of nine pioneering women architects in Queensland (that is, those practising before World War II), Mottram was the only one to pursue her architectural career for the full length of her working life.

One of their major jobs was the Longreach Hospital and in 1940, she was "foreman" of works on the first stage of construction of this building which was designed by Hall and Phillips.

[1] Scott Street Flats is a two storey, timber and masonry Tudor Revival building located overlooking the Brisbane River at Kangaroo Point.

The western elevation facing the river has four faceted bay windows and downpipes with prominent rainwater heads at each end.

An enclosed porch is found on the northern side of the bedrooms, connected by half glass, French doors.

The bathroom and kitchen have timber ventilation panels, original features such as a cast iron, claw foot bath and porcelain enamel sinks and a painted concrete floor.

A laundry is located in the southern garden at the back of the building and contains concrete sinks and galvanised iron water storage.

[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.