B.B. Whitehouse, later known as Whitehouse Brothers, were

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builders based in

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, Australia.

History

The firm was founded in the early 1900s by Benjamin Burton Whitehouse junior and Joseph Howell Whitehouse.Rushworth Graeme D "Historic Organs of New South Wales", Hale & Iremonger, 1988.

Commissioned organs

* St. Marks Church, Warwick, 1923 (pencil drawing of organ amongst plans owned by Conrad Dornbusch (architect in Warwick) who designed the organ loft for that church in 1923 (Dornbusch collection, held by R. Wood, Sydney, 2020). * Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Woolloongabba (1930) *

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(1940) * St Ignatius Loyola Church, Toowong (1959) *Wynnum Baptist Church (1952), relocated in 1993 to

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(prior to 1984) * Corpus Christi Church,

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References

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