Hotel:Stanley Arms Hotel

Suburb:

Collingwood

Description:
891-1894. Courtesy Royal Historical Society of Victoria
Hotel Address:

[230] Wellington Street, east side, opposite Stanley Street, between Vere and Singleton (formerly Little Smith) streets
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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Hotel ID No

76

Most Recent Name:

Stanley Arms Hotel (1867 - 1885)

Previous Name(s):

N/A

When Built/Licenced:

1867

When Delicensed:

1885

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: N ; MMBW: Detail Plan 1199 & 1200, 1899 ( building in between numbers 228 and 230)

Comments:

At the Licensing meeting in January 1885 there was strong opposition to the renewal of a licence to the Stanley Arms Hotel. Petitions for and against the continuance of the hotel were read from the residents in the immediate vicinity, and a long time was spent in arguments, many witnesses giving evidence against or in favour of the hotel. The application for a licence to the current landlady, Mrs Hollingsworth, was refused, and application was then made for a licence to a Miss Maher. This, too, was opposed on the grounds that the hotel was not required, and the application was adjourned for a month. ( The Argus 21 January 1885, p. 9). A further application was made in December, but was again refused.

A photo taken in the early 1890s shows a simply-decorated symmetrical two storey building looking much as it would have done when it was operating, even to a few loungers standing about outside. The word hotel has been painted over with 'house'.