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Hotel:Grace Darling Hotel

Suburb:

Collingwood

Hotel Address:

114 Smith Street
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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Hotel ID No

36

Most Recent Name:

Grace Darling Hotel (1854 to present)

Previous Name(s):

N/A

When Built/Licenced:

1854

When Delicensed:

N/A

Status of Building:

Existing hotel

Rebuilt/Altered:

1920s extensions on the Peel Street frontage.

Heritage Victoria Register:

VHR H0660

National Trust Register:

B3840

Collingwood Conservation Study 1989 & 1995:

Part C, pp. 574-576

City of Yarra Heritage Review 1998:

Volume 3, Appendix B, individually listed under precinct

City of Yarra Review of Heritage Overlay Areas, 2007 & Heritage Database:

HO135, VHR

Maps:

Kearney 1855: Y ; Hodgkinson 1858: Y ; MMBW: Detail Plan 1208, 1899

Comments:

As one of the few remaining 1850s hotels in Melbourne and one of the earliest surviving buildings in Collingwood, the Grace Darling is of both local and Melbourne-wide significance, providing a striking remnant of the early years of Melbourne's suburban development and an excellent example of an early stone building in Collingwood.

It is also famous as the site of the 1892 meeting associated with the eventual formation of the Collingwood Football Club.

Designed by George Wharton, the first owner and publican was Thomas Risby (from Tasmania). The Risby family owned the property until around 1870. Patrick Coyle, owner of the nearby Albion Hotel, was the publican from 1869 to 1879.

Built of bluestone, the hotel features Tasmanian sandstone door and window surrounds. Sydney Smith, Ogg and Serpell designed the surprisingly sympathetic 1920s extensions.

Its name commemorates the heroine of the wreck of the "Forfarshire" in 1838.