Hotel:Fox Hotel
Suburb:
Collingwood
Hotel Address:
351 Wellington Street, corner Alexandra Parade (formerly Reilly Street)
Collingwood 3066
Australia
Map It
Hotel ID No
83
Most Recent Name:
The Fox Hotel (2007 to present)
Previous Name(s):
Fox's Hotel (1871-1882), Tower Hotel (1882 - c.1992), Office Inn (199?-2007)
When Built/Licenced:
1871
When Delicensed:
N/A
Status of Building:
Existing hotel
Rebuilt/Altered:
Enlarged at some time after the 1890s photo was taken; renovated in the interwar period
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 HO 321
Maps:
Kearney 1855: N/A ; Hodgkinson 1858: N/A ; MMBW: Detail Plan 1214, 1900
Comments:
In 1882 its name was changed to the Tower Hotel, a reference to the nearby Shot Tower, which was built in 1882. (See Shot tower)
The current owner has gone back to the hotel's origins for a choice of name.