Victoria Park Hotel, Heritage hotel on Boundary Street in South Townsville, Australia
The Victoria Park Hotel was a two-story timber building with a distinctive corner entrance and architectural features typical of Queensland hotels from the 1890s. The structure displayed the design characteristics of that period through its construction and layout.
The first hotel on the site burned down on 9 October 1895, the night before licensee Jane Guthrie was to take possession. A second building, designed by Tunbridge & Tunbridge and built by Jeremiah Dempsey for £1300, opened in January 1896. Samuel Allen & Company leased it in November 1895 and later owned it from 1907 to 1945.
The hotel functioned as a gathering place for South Townsville residents, particularly those working at nearby industrial sites such as the Cleveland Foundry and railway workshops. It was a center where the local community came together.
The site at 266 Boundary Street, at the corner of Sixth Avenue, is now a vacant development lot; the timber hotel was destroyed by fire on 8 June 2018. The building was listed for sale at the time of the fire and was relisted as a development site in March 2021. No structure remains to visit.
The first hotel on the site burned down on 9 October 1895, the night before licensee Jane Guthrie was to take possession. A second building of similar design, costing £1300, opened in January 1896. The 2018 fire began in a laundry dryer and left only a large pile of rubble.
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