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Hotel:Earl of Zetland Hotel

Hotel ID No29
Hotel Address:

Stanley Street, north side opposite Little Oxford Street
Collingwood 3066
Australia
Map It

Suburb:

Collingwood

Most Recent Name:

Earl of Zetland Hotel (1855 - 1925)

Previous Name(s):

N/A

When Built/Licenced:

1855

When Delicensed:

1925

Status of Building:

Demolished

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: Y ; Hodgkinson 1858: Y ; MMBW: Detail Plan 1196, 1900

Comments:

This was a substantial three-story stone corner building, one of the few three-storey hotels ever constructed in Collingwood. The original owner was Samuel Turner, a Collingwood councillor, and chairman of the Public Works committee in 1860. He was also active in the Licensed Victuallers' Association. He spent £7,000 on building the hotel, and according to a 1921 article looking back at Collingwood's history 'The first council [included] Samuel Turner, who built the Earl of Zetland Hotel ... paying the masons £2 a day and making them knock off every now and again to have a drink and smoke at his expense' (The Herald 28 July 1921 p. 11). Perhaps it is not surprising that he became insolvent in 1860.