Terminus Hotel (Former)

The former Terminus Hotel is of local historic, social and aesthetic significance to the City of Hobsons Bay.

Historically, it is significant as an illustration of the far reaching influence of the Licenses Reduction Board, which was established in 1906, that led to the construction of new hotels to meet improved standards and consequently an increased level of hotel ownership by major breweries. It also has associations with prominent hotel architects, Sydney Smith and Ogg (possibly with Robert Haddon as consultant designer) and the Carlton Brewery Company Ltd. The name of the Hotel reflects the influence of the Williamstown Railway upon the development of this area. (AHC criteria A4, D2 and H1)

Aesthetically it is significant as an essentially original and successfully designed example of a twentieth century hotel form with notable Art Nouveau detailing. An early example of a hotel design by Sydney Smith & Ogg, it illustrates the ideas that would be developed and applied in later designs by the firm such as the Victoria Inn and Prince Albert Hotel, both in Douglas Parade Williamstown. (AHC criteria E1 and F1)

Socially, it illustrates the important role of hotels as community meeting places during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (AHC criterion G1)

Group

Commercial

Category

Hotel