Cleveland Hotel, Heritage-listed former hotel in Cleveland, Australia

The Cleveland Hotel is a two-storeyed masonry building at 109 Shore Street North, with verandahs front and back and a corrugated iron roof that replaced shingles around 1912. By 1863 it held a bar, parlour, sitting-rooms, bedrooms, a storeroom and a kitchen with attached servant's room, and the grounds had stables, a coachhouse, a fowlhouse, a garden, a jetty and a bathing house.

John Vincent Cassim, a Mauritian Indian transported to Moreton Bay in 1840, built the two-storeyed masonry hotel around 1860 for himself and his wife Mary Teally, who had run Cleveland boarding houses since 1855. After storm damage in June 1929 the building stood vacant, and local residents believe it was converted into flats during or just after the Second World War, possibly linked to a 1948 change of ownership.

The building served as a gathering place for the local Catholic community until the first church was built in Cleveland in 1877. It functioned as an important social hub for residents at that time.

The building is easily located on Shore Street North and can be viewed from the outside as it is a heritage-protected structure. Visiting during daylight hours allows you to see the architectural details of the facade clearly.

The hotel's grounds in 1863 included a jetty and a bathing house, listed alongside stables, a coachhouse, a fowlhouse and a garden. John Vincent Cassim also acquired the neighbouring allotments in 1872/73 and 1879. Cassim's Island in Moreton Bay is named after him.