Hotel:Builders Arms Hotel
Suburb:
Abbotsford
Hotel Address:
[325] Victoria Street (northeast corner of Nicholson Street)
Abbotsford 3067
Australia
Map It
Hotel ID No
13
Most Recent Name:
Builders Arms Hotel (1878 - 1918)
Previous Name(s):
Glasgow Arms (1868 - 1870), Sportsman's Arms (1871 - 1877)
When Built/Licenced:
1868
When Delicensed:
1918
Status of Building:
Demolished
Rebuilt/Altered:
N/A
Heritage Victoria Register:
N/A
National Trust Register:
N/A
Collingwood Conservation Study 1989 & 1995:
N/A
City of Yarra Heritage Review 1998:
N/A
City of Yarra Review of Heritage Overlay Areas, 2007 & Heritage Database:
N/A
Maps:
Kearney 1855: N ; Hodgkinson 1858: Building on site, unnamed ; MMBW: Detail Plan 1310, 1901 (no. 325, unnamed )
Comments:
The first licensee was Ellen Collins; Richard Broughton, who had been the publican at several other hotels in Victoria Street, took over from 1878 until 1887; Mrs Ellen O'Shannessy was in charge from 1888 to 1894, while Mrs Morris managed only a brief stint from 1895 to 1896.