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Hotel:Studley Arms Hotel
[274, later 252] Wellington Street, northeast corner Little Bedford Street
Collingwood 3066
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Collingwood
Studley Arms Hotel (1850 - 1908)
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[274, later 252] Wellington Street, northeast corner Little Bedford Street
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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1850/51
1908
Demolished c.1968
Enlarged in 1852 to accommodate the influx of gold immigrants
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Kearney 1855: Y ; Hodgkinson 1858: Y ; MMBW: Detail Plan 1197 & 1198, 1899
Peter Petherick, Collingwood rate collector and sometime councillor, owned and occupied the two-storey bluestone hotel from about 1861 until his death in 1877. According to his son Edward, the Studley originally belonged to Alderman John Hodgson and was the most substantial hotel in the district; it was originally planned as three shops, one of which was afterwards used for municipal offices and the Court of Petty Sessions until purpose-built structures were erected in Johnston Street in 1859.
In 1862 an anonymous letter in the Collingwood Observer remarked of Councillor Petherick: 'Being chairman of the public works committee what more natural than that contractors and their men should flock to the bar of the Studley Arms where the landlord can dispense nobblers and patronage at the same time'.
In 1863 the first large public meeting of the Labour, Protection and Tariff Reform League was held at the Studley Arms. Collingwood was at the forefront of the Victorian protectionist movement, supported by Graham Berry's Observer. Petherick's daughter Rosa conducted a private school in the hotel in the 1870s (perhaps in the room formerly used for council meetings). A photo taken from a vantage point in Johnston Street around 1886 shows the Studley Arms as well as the Wellington Hotel just a few doors to the north (see Hotel 91).
By 1900 the hotel was owned by the Castlemaine Brewing Company. After closure, the building became a laundry, then Cockatoo Preserves Pty Ltd and eventually spent many years as a cardboard box factory, first operated by the Austral Box Manufacturing Company, as shown in the 1934 photo, and later Wood and Carson Pty Ltd as shown in a January 1964 photo (see link). In both photos the bluestone walls were still looking very solid, but with its lower storey windows altered and doors replaced it had an uninviting air, hard to imagine as the centre of conviviality and political intrigue that it once was. All the buildings in the block of Wellington Street bounded by Vere and Perry Streets were demolished 1968/1969 for the building of Housing Commission high rise flats.
Pellett, James 1851; Myers, William 1853; Balfour, j 1854; Cooze, William J 1856-1859; Wildish, Seaman Beale 1860; Petherick, Peter John 1860-1867; Press, Alfred 1868-1869; Archer, F 1870; Petherick, Peter J 1872-1877; McGuinness, Frederick 1878; Humphrey, Thomas 1879; Metzenthin, Paul 1880; Evans, George D 1881-1882; Stillman, William 1883-1885; Rattingan, Jerimiah 1892; Skehan, Phillip 1893; Ryan, M 1895; Claspy, Mary Mrs 1895; Cassiday, Hillary 1896; Barron, Catherine Mrs 1898; Bartlett, George .