Glamorous block for sale

Its glamorous and recently disastrous history add personality to one of the city’s highest and largest parcels of residential and commercial vacant land.

ABOVE: The ruins of the historic Smyth mansion after a disastrous fire four years ago.

IT IS arguably Gympie's best block of land.

Its glamorous and recently disastrous history add personality to one of the city's highest and largest parcels of residential and commercial vacant land.

Almost part of the CBD, it is also within a child's walk of five schools.

If that sounds like a real estate agent's spiel, have a look yourself.

At 30 Lady Mary Terrace, on the corner of Mellor St, the site has almost 360-degree views, including an outlook over the historic Old Gympie Railway Station, the Heritage-listed Railway Hotel and a Tozer St precinct that reeks of potential cafe culture.

It has future trendy written all over it.

It also has historic rock wall frontage on Mellor St, right in among the commercial precinct.

And it's on two allotments, totalling well over a quarter of a hectare.

Disaster struck the site four years ago in a suspicious fire which destroyed the stunningly beautiful colonial mansion. built in the 1880s for Gympie Mayor William Smyth.

Mr Smyth had come to Gympie as an underground miner and struck it rich, eventually becoming director of the Phoenix Mine and the largest owner on the Gympie fields.

More recently, the home was a doctor's surgery, occupied by Dr Bill Lindsay and his family and later by Dr David Cairncross and his family.

It was renovated by the Department of Communities and became headquarters of Choice Support Services, before being damaged beyond repair in that terrible fire on May 22, 2012.