Bundaberg Civic Centre  The building was opened during 1962. The city coat of arms displayed on the building was adopted at this time. The site was previously occupied by the city's fire station and later broadcasting station 4BU.
Bundaberg Railway Station  Built in early 1888, for the completion of the railway from Maryborough (eventually Brisbane).
Bundaberg Post Office  (Heritage listed) When postal and telegraph services merged in 1879, they were transferred to a timber building located on the present site. Today's brick and plaster Post Office opened in 1890. Between 1892 and 1925, the upper floor was occupied by the Australian terminal of a French Movement-Old/NSW Government marine cable linking Australia with Europe via North America.
Commercial Building Until 1968, this building was the WINTERGARDEN MOVIE THEATRE, opened early in 1929. A few months later it screened the first "talking picture" to come to the city. Part of the lavish stage structure can still be seen.
Commercial Building Formerly Bundaberg's first brick constructed theatre, built in 1888 as the QUEEN'S THEATRE. Used for public meetings; dances and balls; screened Bundaberg's first movies (1905); music festivals; boxing matches and exhibitions; concerts, skating etc. Famous Australian singer
East Water Tower  (Heritage listed) Built in 1902 as the first above-ground storage for the city's reticulated domestic water supply. Height 120 ft (36.6m); storage capacity 40,000 gals (180 kl); inside diameter 30 ft (9.2m); wall thickness varying from 4 ft 6 ins (112 cm) to 1 ft (25 cm).
James Charles Burnett Walkway  The Burnett River is named in honour of Assistant- Surveyor J C Burnett (1815-1854). During 1846-47, Burnett made three trips north from Brisbane with the purpose of mapping and exploring the course of that river. Floods forced a return to Brisbane during the first expedition. On the second the surveyor and party explored downstream to the future site of Bundaberg. For the third visit Burnett arrived by small, open boat and explored from the mouth of the river to today's Burnett River Traffic Bridge. As part of Bundaberg's Australian Bicentennial celebrations, Stage One (as far as the old ferry cutting) of the James Charles Burnett Walkway was officially opened. Stage Two, upstream to Alexandra Park was completed in 1994. Eventually, this riverside walkway will follow the surveyor/explorer's route along the riverbank from Queen's Park to the city.
First Court House Built in 1882. With the opening of a new Court House in 1958, police moved into the old Court House and the building served as a police station until 1996. At this time (1996) the future of the old Court House is not clear.
First Bundaberg State High School This brick and cement building on the south bank of the Burnett River was built in 1891, as a Bundaberg Sugar Experiment Station laboratory During 1912, the city's first high school opened in the building. Since 1921, the building has been used by the Department of Works, now Q-Build.
Bundaberg District Tourism And Development Board Ltd. - Hinkler Glider Museum The centre was opened by Ald C J Nielsen, Mayor of Bundaberg, on May 1, 1983. The foundation stone also commemorates the 50th Anniversary of world acclaimed Bundaberg aviator, Squadron-Leader Herbert John Louis (Bert) Hinkler, AFC, DSM. The museum section houses a full-scale replica of a glider built by Bert Hinkler in 1912. Using the original glider he conducted experimental flights after launching himself and glider from sand dunes located at Mon Repos Beach.
| Moncrieff Theatre Originally OLYMPIA AIRDOME, an open air theatre built in 1920. It was enclosed as the OLYMPIA THEATRE in 1955; refurbished as the CREST THEATRE in 1973; reconstructed as the Moncrieff Theatre during 1985-87. Live shows and movies.
School Of Arts Building  (Heritage listed) Built during 1888-89. Listed with the National Trust. Has housed at various times a subscription library, reading rooms, museum and art gallery. Bundaberg's first technical college was housed in the building.
National Australia Bank  (Heritage listed) Built in 1891 as the Commercial Banking Co of Sydney premises. Little change has been made to the building. The premises has held a National Trust classification since 1982. What was the original stables still stands at the rear of the building. Sold into private hands in August, 1996
Bundaberg Police Station This station was completed on August 11, 1996. The building, Bundaberg's most expensive to date, was completed at a cost of $7,290,000. The ground floor of the station is 1900 sq m in area and there are two floors, with an ancillary building at the rear. The watch house contains 9 cells, 1 observation cell and 1 padded cell; eventually the watch house will have the capacity to house 17-20 prisoners. Other features include electronically controlled doors, sound-proof interview rooms, wheelchair access, forensic laboratories, office space and a large co-ordinating room for situations requiring Emergency Services
Grand Hotel Thought to be the oldest commercial site in Bundaberg. Originally occupied in 1871, by Bundaberg's first hotel, the Commercial. The Grand Hotel was built in 1885.
Commercial Premises Originally built as QUEENSLAND NATIONAL BANK (QN) in 1887. Traded as such until 1977. Opened as QN Art Gallery and later as Fourteen Plus Boutique. Now houses a firm of Bundaberg solicitors. The interior has changed little. The huge vault is used for records storage.
Soldiers' Memorial (Heritage listed) Scene of Bundaberg's Anzac Day public ceremonies. The 7 ft 6 in (2.3m) high figure of an Australian World War One "Digger" on a polished red granite column was sculptured in the famous marble region of Carrara (Italy). The granite came from Orange, NSW. General Birdwood, the Anzac leader at Gallipoli, laid the foundation stone in May, 1920. Major-General C H (later Sir Charles) Brand, a member of a Bundaberg district family, unveiled the memorial in July, 1921 .
Second Court House Plans for this building were announced in February, 1956. Cost of construction �120,000. Bundaberg Court transferred to the building during 1958 and occupies the upper floor. Lands Department and Justice Department occupy the ground floor.
Linden Clinic Built during 1913 as the home and surgery of Doctor Egmont Schmidt. A capsule containing money and newspapers of the time was placed in one of the walls. Doctor Schmidt's art collection, left to the citizens of Bundaberg, forms the nucleus of the city's art collection.
Bundaberg Base Hospital  The original hospital erected on the site during 1880-81, was little more than a four-room cottage with kitchen and a separate ward for Kanakas. The nucleus of the present hospital complex was opened by the Governor of Queensland, Sir William McGregor on July 9, 1914. Over the years Bundaberg Base Hospital has grown into the major medical centre in the Wide Bay/Burnett region.
 
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