Queensland Hotels (Heritage-listed)

Queensland Hotels – Introduction

Photographing Queensland Hotels (heritage-listed) was a focus of our road trip in 2015. This trip resulted in an eBook – Queensland Coastal Towns – A Road Trip.

Fourteen of Queensland hotels (heritage-listed) are shown below. The criteria for selecting these heritage-listed hotels included:

Listing on the Queensland Heritage Register
Photographed by us
Displaying typical characteristics of a Queensland hotel from the early 20^th Century
We needed to like it!

This resulted in the following hotels being included:

Cairns: Barrier Reef Hotel; Central Hotel; and Hides Corner Hotel
Townsville: Tattersalls Hotel; Great Northern Hotel; and Queens Hotel
Rockhampton: Criterion Hotel; and Heritage Hotel (Tavern)
Maryborough: Post Office Hotel; Customs House Hotel; Criterion Hotel; Hotel Francis; and Royal Hotel
Gympie: Railway Hotel

Some regular characteristics of these hotels include:

Verandahs, to counter the tropical heat and provide shelter from the rain, with decorative cast-iron balustrades
Corrugated iron roofs and awnings
Reinforced concrete construction, especially for those built in the interwar period. This was to protect against cyclones. Otherwise, masonry or rendered brick construction was used. There was a clear move away from timber construction
The majority are still operating as hotels
Support by local communities to maintain these structures

Queensland Hotels – Gallery

Fourteen heritage-listed Queensland Hotels are shown in the gallery below

Queensland Pubs — Cairns: Barrier-Reef-Hotel
Built 1926; reinforced concrete, hipped corrugated iron roof; Abbott Street; #601608

Queensland Heritage-listed Hotels (Pubs) — Rockhampton: Criterion-Hotel-Motel
Built 189-90; Italianate Style; 150 Quay Street; Qld Register #600800

Maryborough: Criterion-Hotel
Built 1878-83; Three storey brick building; hipped corrugated iron roof; 1st and 2nd-floor verandahs with timber posts and cross braced balustrades; 98 Wharf Street; Qld Register #600719

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