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Hotel:Tubal Cain Hotel
26 Hoddle Street, southeast corner Greenwood Street
Abbotsford 3067
Australia
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Tubal Cain Hotel (1896 - 1911 or 1912)
Tubal Cain Hotel (1865 - 1894), Hoddle Arms Hotel (1894 - 1896)
26 Hoddle Street, southeast corner Greenwood Street
Abbotsford 3067
Australia
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1865
1911 or 1912
Demolished in the 1920s. Current building on site is commercial premises
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Kearney 1855: N/A ; Hodgkinson 1858: N/A ; MMBW: Detail Plan 1311, 1901; Map 38, 1897
Tubal Cain, the son of Lamech and Zillah and a descendant of Cain, was the 'forger of all instruments of bronze and iron' (Genesis 4:22) and thus the ancestor of metalworkers. He is sometimes referred to as the first blacksmith. There is also a Masonic connection.
In 1894 permission was granted to change the name to the Hoddle Arms Hotel, but it was changed back to the Tubal Cain within a few years.
The timber hotel became a residence for some years after its closure. The current building on the site housed Maroon Motor Services from the 1920s until the 1970s.