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The Esplanade Hotel

Address: 2 Gellibrand Street, Queenscliff       
​Period: Circa 1879


The Esplanade Hotel – originally named the Palace Hotel by its initial licensee – was the first two-storey masonry hotel in Queenscliff and featured an accompanying timber observation tower. Unlike Queenscliff’s hotels that primarily catered to the gentry, the Esplanade was regarded the fishermen’s hotel undoubtedly due to its adjacency to the low-lying Fishermen’s Flat. Subsequent alterations witnessed the original cantilevered cast iron varandahs removed and later replaced by a timber variation.

In 2016, the Esplanade Hotel changed hands and is now called The Brewhouse. 

(Lovell Chen Architects. ‘Individual Property Citation’, Queenscliffe Heritage Study, 2009).



Photographs:
.  The ‘Esplanade Hotel’, ca. 1880 (Image courtesy of the Queenscliffe Historical Museum)
.  The ‘Esplanade Hotel’, 1930. (Image courtesy of the Queenscliffe Historical Museum)
.  The ‘Esplanade Hotel’, 1988. (Image courtesy of the Queenscliffe Historical Museum)
.  The ‘Esplanade Hotel’, 2015. (Copyright of the Nepean Conservation Group)


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