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Hotel Max, 30 Commercial Road, Prahran

Location

30 Commercial Road, PRAHRAN VIC 3181 - Property No 31137

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is Significant?
The Hotel Max, 30 Commercial Road, Prahran, is a double-storey streamlined interwar Moderne style hotel. First known as the Commercial Hotel and later the Prince Maximilian Hotel, the original c1853-54 hotel on the site was rebuilt c1940.

How is it Significant?
The Hotel Max is of local architectural and historical significance to the City of Stonnington.

Why is it Significant?
The Hotel Max is of historical significance for its ability to demonstrate the major interwar trend of rebuilding or remodelling hotels which followed the introduction of the Licenses Reduction Board. The hotel is of additional historical significance for the enduring use of the site as licensed premises for over one and a half centuries.

The Hotel Max is of architectural significance as a good and largely externally intact example of a streamlined interwar Moderne style hotel. The hotel's significance is further enhanced by its association with prolific interwar hotel architect Robert H McIntyre.

Group

Recreation and Entertainment

Category

Hotel