Esplanade Hotel, Perth

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The Esplanade Hotel in the 1920s

The Esplanade Hotel [a] was a hotel on The Esplanade across from Esplanade Reserve in Perth, Western Australia. Its demolition in 1972 was controversial because of the building's beauty and popularity.[ citation needed ]

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Its early history appears in James Sykes Battye's 1912 Cyclopedia of Western Australia. [1] Various proprietors owned the property over time, including N. W. Harper, who sold it in 1927 to J. Paxton, [2] whose daughter Elsie May Plowman became sole licensee in 1957. [3]

It was located opposite the Perth Bowling Club on the Esplanade Reserve. [4]

The hotel was one of nine in the Perth area to have orders to remove its verandahs in 1962 [5] but its owner Elsie May Plowman responded with a successful court action against the Perth City Council regulation. [3] [6]

Notes

  1. ↑ Often referred to as the Old Esplanade Hotel to differentiate from the later New Esplanade Hotel.

References

  1. ↑ Battye, James, ed. (1912). The Cyclopedia of Western Australia: an historical and commercial review, descriptive and biographical facts figures and illustrations: an epitome of progress. Vol. 1 (1st ed.). Adelaide: Hussey and Gillingham. pp. 758–759. OCLC   220346033. Wikidata   Q131576638.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: overridden setting (link)
  2. ↑ "Esplanade Hotel Sold". The Daily News . Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 2 December 1927. p. 1. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  3. 1 2 Wendy Birman Plowman, Elsie May (1905–1978) at Australian Dictionary of Biography, 2002
  4. ↑ "Hotel Esplanade, Perth (advertisement)". Sunday Times . Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 15 September 1929. p. 35. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  5. ↑ "In Western Australia This Week". The Canberra Times . 29 December 1962. p. 2. Retrieved 5 December 2014. At Trove
  6. ↑ Gregory, Jenny (2003). City of Light: A History of Perth Since the 1950s . Perth: City of Perth. p. 114. ISBN   0-9594632-5-9. LCCN   2005440691. OCLC   54781434. OL   3465933M. Wikidata   Q133458669.

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