Nebo Hotel, Heritage-listed hotel in Nebo, Queensland, Australia
Nebo Hotel is a heritage-listed building in Nebo featuring a timber frame structure with painted corrugated iron walls and timber post-supported verandas. The property comprises two connected buildings, one containing a public bar and guest rooms and the other housing a dining area and kitchen.
The current Nebo Hotel, the second on the site, was built in 1886 for Jack Davis, who owned it until 1906. It stands near a Nebo Creek crossing used by teamsters and travellers, and the town was gazetted as Fort Cooper in 1865. In 1948 local usage prevailed and both township and hotel were renamed Nebo.
The town and hotel were long called Fort Cooper, after the nearby hill, while locals already used the name Nebo from the creek; in 1948 local usage prevailed and both were renamed Nebo. Alexander Maclean, licensee from 1920, was president of the Nebo Jockey Club, and the hotel catered for race meetings with stables and a stockyard on its grounds.
The hotel stands at the corner of Reynolds and Water Streets, overlooking Nebo Creek, and still operates as a working country pub. The bar occupies the ground floor of the 1886 corner building, with guest bedrooms above reached by French doors off the upper veranda. The adjoining two-storey wing holds the dining room and kitchen, with management quarters over.
The building retains many original architectural features from 1886, including the distinctive timber frame construction and painted corrugated iron exterior. This preservation allows visitors to see directly how buildings were constructed in rural Queensland during the late 1800s.
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