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Built / licensed: 1860

Location: 2 Cotham Road, Kew

Delicensed: 1922

Status of building: Demolished c.1958

Other names: Council Hotel

Heritage Reviews / Conservation studies: City of Boroondara - Thematic Environmental History (March 2012) p. 106.

MMBW Map: Detail plan 1580, 1903; detail plan 1588, 1903.

Council Family Hotel 1880	Council Family Hotel building (left), early 1950s.

Comments: Built in 1860 by Frederick Jamieson on present-day Cotham Road near Kew Junction. At one time it was owned by the Castlemaine Brewery Company. It was delicensed and closed in 1922, after which it was used for commercial purposes. It was possibly demolished with the widening of High Street in 1958-9.

Licensees:

1861 - Robert Mills

1862 - John Warne Cook

1864 - Patrick Curry

1866 - Mrs Curry

1873 - Mary Curry

1877/91 - Patrick Ryan

1895 - Patrick Ryan (listed P. Ryan)

1906 - Johanna Ryan

Feb 1909 - Arthur Spiers

Jul 1909 - Ernest Victor Macken

Dec 1909 - Ellen Fitzgerald

1915 - Ellen Edwards