Hotel:Commercial Hotel

Suburb:

Collingwood

Hotel Address:

62 Smith Street, Collingwood
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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Hotel ID No

21

Most Recent Name:

Commercial Hotel (1869 - 1919)

Previous Name(s):

N/A

When Built/Licenced:

Date on pediment 1866, first licence 1869

When Delicensed:

1919

Status of Building:

Commercial premises

Rebuilt/Altered:

Bi-chrome brick exterior was probably later rendered after 1887. Corner door and adjoining windows altered in recent years.

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:

Contributory to HO333

Maps:

Kearney 1855: N ; Hodgkinson 1858: N ; MMBW: Detail plan 1208, 1899

Comments:

Is seeing believing? Although the date on the pediment seems like a good piece of evidence, sources such as licensing records, rate books, and Sands and McDougall directories suggest it was not yet built in 1866. An 1880s photo of Langridge Street shows the side wall in brick. If the whole building was rendered after this time, the date may have been added then and relied on inaccurate data.

The first publican was Elijah Horwood who remained as publican from 1869 until 1884.

From 1930 until the 1970s the building housed the office of G.D. Langridge & Son, estate agents. In recent years the ground floor has been further altered to suit office/shop uses.