Great Northern Hotel, Newcastle, Heritage hotel in Newcastle, Australia
The Great Northern Hotel is a six-storey Art Deco building at 89 Scott Street, made up of a central wing and two side wings that were originally five storeys and raised to six in the 1950s. It holds a rare "Jazz style" interior and is a dominant element of the Newcastle townscape.
The building opened in 1938 as the third establishment bearing this name to operate at the same location, designed by Sydney architects Rudder and Grout and built by Kell & Rigby. Two earlier structures had previously stood on this site.
The hotel's name has carried across three buildings on the same Scott Street site since 1863, the present one opening in February 1938. Actress Susie Porter worked as a barmaid here while studying at university. The building holds a rare "Jazz style" interior, and its ground floor reopened as an Irish-themed pub in November 1999.
The hotel stands at 89 Scott Street in Newcastle's east end, a six-storey building whose ground floor reopened in November 2018 after refurbishment. The upper levels, closed after the 1989 earthquake, were part of that later work; the building is a dominant element of the surrounding townscape, so it is easy to locate from the street.
In January 2018 the owners applied to build a cantilevered swimming pool over Scott Street as part of an extension; the refurbished building reopened in November 2018. The hotel had been listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
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