Esplanade Hotel, Perth
The Esplanade Hotel [1] was a hotel on the northern side of the Esplanade Reserve in Perth. Its demolition in 1972 was extremely controversial because of the building's beauty and popularity.
Its early history appears in James Sykes Battye's Cyclopedia of 1912.[2] Various proprietors owned the property over time, including N. W. Harper who sold it in 1927 to J. Paxton,[3] whose daughter Elsie May Plowman became sole licensee in 1957.[4]
It was located opposite the Perth Bowling Club on the Esplanade Reserve.[5]
The hotel was one of many in the Perth area to have orders to remove its verandahs in the 1950s[6] but its owner Elsie May Plowman responded with a successful court action against the Perth City Council regulation.[4]
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Notes
- ↑ Often referred to as the Old Esplanade Hotel to differentiate from the later 'New Esplanade Hotel'
- ↑ Battye, J. S. (James Sykes), 1871-1954 (1912), The Cyclopedia of Western Australia : an historical and commercial review, descriptive and biographical facts figures and illustrations : an epitome of progress, Printed and published for the Cyclopedia Company by Hussey & Gillingham, retrieved 18 June 2012 vol 1. pp 758-759
- ↑ "ESPLANADE HOTEL SOLD.". The Daily News (Perth, WA: National Library of Australia). 2 December 1927. p. 1 Edition: HOME (FINAL) EDITION. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Wendy Birman Plowman, Elsie May (1905–1978) at Australian Dictionary of Biography, 2002
- ↑ "Hotel Esplanade, Perth.". Sunday Times (Perth, WA : 1902 - 1954) (Perth, WA: National Library of Australia). 15 September 1929. p. 35 Section: The Sunday Times. Retrieved 18 June 2012. a common location for advertising photographs of the hotel was from the bowling green.
- ↑ Gregory, Jenny (2003), City of light : a history of Perth since the 1950s, City of Perth, ISBN 978-0-9594632-6-2 p.114
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Coordinates: 31°57′22″S 115°51′26″E / 31.95621°S 115.85711°E