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Built/licensed: 1852
Location: 131 Church St, Hawthorn.
Delicensed: 1920
Status of building: Demolished
See also: Hawthorn Plaque 13 - South corner Simpson Place and Church Street
Heritage Reviews / Conservation studies: City of Boroondara - Thematic Environmental History (March 2012) pp. 105, 109, 151, 223
City of Boroondara - Hawthorn Heritage Study (1992) p. 41
MMBW Maps: Detail plan 1081, 1901.
Comments: Built in 1852 by Lewis Hatherley for his father George, at the south corner of present-day Simpson Place and Church Street, the property was taken over by George's son-in-law, Charles Scuffam. The Red Lion Hotel was possibly the first commercial building to operate on Kew Road (Church St).
In 1857, it was described as "a substantially brick-built 13 roomed house, at present occupied by Mr Scuffum, whose omnibuses run to and from Melbourne about every hour. The Hotel occupies a frontage of 46 feet to the main road, to which is attached stabling for twenty horses, with sheds, fowl-house, and other buildings, and also a large garden stocked with fruit trees, flowers, &c., &c. It is the oldest established house in this locality, and at present doing a very lucrative business, capable of being greatly increased, and ensures to a man of liberal means a safe investment... The immediate neighbourhood being thickly populated ensures it a constant trade." (The Age, Jan 29th, 1857)
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Plan of the Red Lion Hotel, published in The Age, January 29th, 1857 |
Delicensed Red Lion Hotel, c1933. |
The hotel was delicensed in 1920, and eventually demolished.
Licensees:
1853/1855 - James Adams
1855/64 - Charles Scuffam
1871 - Edwards WIlliam Weaver
1872 - James W. Travers
Oct 1873 - Charles Scuffam
1874/77 - William Henry Scholes
1878/85 - Edward Reilly (also listed as Edmund Reilly)
1886/88 - J. R. Bremmer
1889/91 - A. Brammer
1895 - Margaret Reilly
1896 - Eliza Ryland
1902 - J. Mawley
A. Constantine
Margaret Reilly
1912 - Maria Hayes
1916 - Thomas F. Sheridan
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