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Tower Hotel

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

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Built/licensed: 1876

Location: 678 Burwood Road, Hawthorn

Delicensed: 1954

Status of building: Demolished in 1954

Other names: Dennis' Tower Hotel

Heritage Reviews / Conservation studies: City of Boroondara - Thematic Environmental History (March 2012) pp.106, 109, 110

City of Boroondara - Hawthorn Heritage Study (1992) p. 54

MMBW Maps: Plan 57, 1902; Detail plan 1544, 1903

 

Comments: Built by James Call, the Tower Hotel was a popular drinking hole with workers from Clarence Hicks' Junction Saw and Moulding Mills, as well as those from the Upper Hawthorn Brick Company on the corner of Roseberry St. It was later known as Dennis' Tower Hotel, and demolished on Saturday 4th of December, 1954. The new Tower Hotel built on the east side of Camberwell Road in 1939 and still stands today.

 

 
Tower hotel prior to demolition and relocation. 

 

 

 
Demolition of the Tower Hotel. Printed in The Argus on 6th December, 1954. 

 

Licensees:

1874/91 - Miss Annie Hurley

1895 - G. C. Meader

1920 - Mary Biggins

1921 - Catherine Cook

1922 - James Mills

1923 - Annie Shelton

1925 - Anthony Barbeta

1926 - Herbert Briton Gunton

1932 - Patrick Francis Minahan

1933 - Martha V McCarthy

1934 - Michael McCarthy

1935 - Harry George Hodges

1936 - Vera David

c.1940-1954 - Julius Joseph Dennis & Ethel Mary Dennis

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