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The Alpine Retreat Hotel

Other Name Wildman's Hotel Location 3340 Warburton Hwy (Main Street), Warburton VIC 3799 - Property No 45443 File Number 773 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] The Alpine Rereat Hotel

Statement of Significance

The Alpine Retreat Hotel, designed in Tudor Inn style and built by John T. Robinson in 1885, has high local significance as an important township building and a popular holiday destination for Melbourne people for over a century. The hotel has significance for its associations with a number of prominent district residents including John Thomas Robinson and John C. Wildman in the 1880s, and Alice and George Leith and their descendants from the turn of the century unitl the 1980's.