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Address | Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy, VIC 3068, Australia |
Coordinates | 37°48′25″S 144°58′34″E / 37.80694°S 144.97611°E |
Opened | 1843 |
The Devonshire Arms Hotel is a former pub located at 38 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy, in the state of Victoria, Australia. It operated as a hotel from 1843 to 1920. It is Fitzroy's oldest surviving building and Melbourne's oldest known extant hotel.
The Devonshire Arms Hotel opened in 1843. [1] The hotel was erected and owned for 50 years by local entrepreneur Francis Clark. [2] Clark had arrived in Melbourne in 1840, and became manager of James Palmer's lemonade and soda factory. He opened a butcher's shop near the corner of Bourke Street and Elizabeth Street in 1845, and later another shop in Richmond. He bought speculative property around Fitzroy and Alphington, and lived a prosperous life. Although he hailed from Essex, the hotel was given the name Devonshire Arms, owing to the pre-goldrush population of the area being principally from the south-west of England.
It was one of 27 Melbourne hotels forced to close by a July 1920 meeting of the Licensing Reduction Board, formally being delicensed in December that year. [3] [4] The building was raided by police in January 1921, who seized alcohol and laid charges for selling liquor without a license, but the charges were dismissed. [4] [5] The building later operated as a hostel. [6]
The building is now part of St Vincent's Hospital, housing the hospital's Department of Addiction Medicine. [7]
The site is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register and is included a Heritage Overlay. [1]
Devonshire Arms Hotel | |
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General information | |
Address | Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy, VIC 3068, Australia |
Coordinates | 37°48′25″S 144°58′34″E / 37.80694°S 144.97611°E |
Opened | 1843 |
The Devonshire Arms Hotel is a former pub located at 38 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy, in the state of Victoria, Australia. It operated as a hotel from 1843 to 1920. It is Fitzroy's oldest surviving building and Melbourne's oldest known extant hotel.
The Devonshire Arms Hotel opened in 1843. [1] The hotel was erected and owned for 50 years by local entrepreneur Francis Clark. [2] Clark had arrived in Melbourne in 1840, and became manager of James Palmer's lemonade and soda factory. He opened a butcher's shop near the corner of Bourke Street and Elizabeth Street in 1845, and later another shop in Richmond. He bought speculative property around Fitzroy and Alphington, and lived a prosperous life. Although he hailed from Essex, the hotel was given the name Devonshire Arms, owing to the pre-goldrush population of the area being principally from the south-west of England.
It was one of 27 Melbourne hotels forced to close by a July 1920 meeting of the Licensing Reduction Board, formally being delicensed in December that year. [3] [4] The building was raided by police in January 1921, who seized alcohol and laid charges for selling liquor without a license, but the charges were dismissed. [4] [5] The building later operated as a hostel. [6]
The building is now part of St Vincent's Hospital, housing the hospital's Department of Addiction Medicine. [7]
The site is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register and is included a Heritage Overlay. [1]