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Built/licensed: 1855, extended 1883.

Location: 481 Burwood Road, Hawthorn

Delicensed: N/A

Status of building: Existing hotel. Extended in 1883.

Other names: Hawthorn Hotel

Heritage Reviews / Conservation studies: City of Boroondara - Thematic Environmental History (March 2012) pp. 105, 107

City of Boroondara - Assessment of the Burwood Road Heritage Precinct, Hawthorn (2008)

Governor Hotham Hotel c.1861

Comments: Built in 1854-55, on the corner of William Street and Burwood Road, and designed by the prominent Melbourne architectural firm of Knight, Kemp and Kerr. It was licensed in 1855 to the owner, John Conran, who was one of the councillors elected to the first Hawthorn Council in 1860.

With the extension of the Hawthorn railway to Glenferrie and Auburn, the hotel was in a good position to benefit from railway customers' patronage. It was extended in 1883, and has since been remodelled and renamed the Hawthorn Hotel.

Licensees:

1855-62 - John Conran

1863/4 - Mrs Sarah Conran

1872 - Patrick Delaney

1873/78 - Michael Hoare

1878/87 - Mrs Annie Hoare

1888/95 - Teresa M. Cahill

1902 - David McClelland

1916-1919 - Jeremiah Ward Curry

1920-24 - John McCluskey

1926 - Walter John Millward and Charles Edward Millward

1939 - James Edward O'Connor