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Red Lion Hotel

Page history last edited by Andrew F 11 years, 11 months ago

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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)

 

   
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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