Grand Hotel, Mount Morgan, Heritage-listed hotel in Mount Morgan, Australia

The Grand Hotel is a two-storey brick building on the corner of Central and Morgan Streets, with an L-shaped plan and a longer frontage on Central Street. Its hipped roof is hidden behind a panelled parapet, and a corner bay rises into an octagonal timber-framed tower topped by a flat sheet-metal onion dome. A wide corrugated-iron awning runs along both street frontages, and timber verandahs with balustrading and a pedimented gable sit on the upper level.

The Grand Hotel was erected around 1901 on land acquired in 1900 by auctioneer Richard Daniel Shaw, who took out a £2000 mortgage on the corner site. By July 1901 it was advertised under W.D. Eaton with gas-lit coffee and dining rooms and a telephone line. Joseph Moulds, a local publican, took over in 1902, and the Queensland National Bank acquired the property in 1906 after Shaw's insolvency.

The hotel's name recalls the gold-rush era, when Mount Morgan's mine was among the world's richest and the town supported many hotels. The original bat wing doors from the corner entrance are now kept as exhibits in the local museum, and the brickwork was originally a rich ochre red with contrasting cement render detail, later painted over.

The hotel stands at the corner of Central and Morgan Streets, with the longer frontage on Central Street and a wide corrugated-iron awning running along both street frontages. The corner entrance sits at the base of the octagonal tower, and the awning steps up along Morgan Street with the street level. The end walls face a laneway and a vacant block.

The hotel's original bat wing doors from its corner entrance are kept as exhibits in the local museum, not at the hotel itself. The bricks were originally a rich ochre red with contrasting cement render detail before being painted.