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Former Duke of York Hotel, 213-215 High Street, Prahran

Location

213-215 High Street, PRAHRAN VIC 3181 - Property No 38843

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is Significant?
The former Duke of York Hotel, at 213-215 High Street, Prahran, is a double-storey corner hotel designed in stylised Grecian revival mode. The first hotel on the site opened in the mid 1850s and was extensively remodelled or rebuilt c1927.

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

Why is it Significant?
The former Duke of York Hotel is of historical significance for its ability to demonstrate the major interwar trend of rebuilding and remodelling nineteenth century hotels that followed the introduction of the Licenses Reduction Board. The hotel is of additional significance for the enduring use of the site as licensed premises for over 150 years.

The former Duke of York Hotel is architecturally significant as a fine and largely intact example of a hotel executed in a stylised Grecian Revival mode popular for hotel buildings of the period.

Group

Recreation and Entertainment

Category

Hotel