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The Ozone Hotel

Address: 42 Gellibrand Street, Queenscliff              
Period: 1881-82


Designed by William J. Ellis and built by Thomas Daly for its owner, licensee and original namesake, James George Baillieu, the hotel in its initial year boasted 80 rooms only to undergo significant expansion the following year.

Adopting the name of the Ozone in 1887 to coincide with the arrival of the bay steamer, the hotel ran into economic difficulties in the mid 1890s depression in which the Baillieu’s – failing to afford the mortgage repayments – lost ownership and George Adman, formerly of the Grand Hotel, took management.
The hotel underwent major restoration in 1982 as commissioned by the Architectural Restoration Fund Scheme, Department of Planning, yet this did not aid its fortunes with a further controversial retrofit in 2008-09 by Architects Lovell Chen which saw the Hotel’s conversion into a number of apartments. It was during this later redevelopment that the Ozone Hotel lost its physical access to Hesse street due to the infill construction of a new commercial premise (Fletchers Real Estate) and freestanding residential terraces.
(Lovell Chen Architects. ‘Individual Property Citation’, Queenscliffe Heritage Study, 2009).


Photographs:
.  Baillieu House’, 1882. (Photograph by Fred Kruger. Image courtesy of the Queenscliffe Historical Museum).
.  ‘Baillieu Hotel’ after the extension, 1883. (Photograph by Fred Kruger. Image courtesy of the Queenscliffe Historical Museum).
.  ‘Ozone Hotel’, 1980. (Image courtesy of the Queenscliffe Historical Museum).
.  The ‘Ozone Apartments’, 2015. (Copyright of the Nepean Conservation Group).
.  Infill construction as part of the ‘Ozone Apartments’ redevelopment. The former hotel’s physical and visual access to Hesse Street has now been lost. (Copyright of the Nepean
​    Conservation Group).
Temporary Location
18 Hesse Street
Queenscliff
VIC. 3225
Ph. (03) 5258 2511
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