http://www.sutcliffegallery.com.au/cat/Brisbane1.htm
On this web site Carl. The image B2,B2x (top left cnr of the page) is an image taken from the CBD side of the river looking over the Victoria Bridge & across to where the Qld Museum now stands.
This bridge was the replacement built for the original Victoria Bridge which was washed away in the flood of 1897 (I think) So this pic won't have the house in it as the house also was washed away in the same flood.
http://www.library.uq.edu.au/fryer/a...2/img0054.html
Here's one looking from the South side of the river towards the CBD. The house would have been just off the the left.
The stone arch on the right is still standing today & has been kept as a monument.
Whoops. Made a mistake. The bad flood was 1893, not 1897.
http://www.ourindooroopilly.com/brisbane-history.html
This web site has photos of the original Victoria bridge being washed away.
The great flood of 1893
Floods which had occurred in 1887 and 1890 were mere dress rehearsals for the devastation which came in the wake of a tropical deluge in February 1893 when land close to the Brisbane and Bremer Rivers was completely inundated. On Thursday, 2 February, the "Brisbane Courier" published an intimation of the coming disaster:
