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PRINCE ALFRED HOTEL

Location

619 CHURCH STREET,, RICHMOND VIC 3121 - Property No 161700

File Number

Y2011:2662

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The Prince Alfred Hotel at 619 Church St, Richmond is significant to the extent of the nineteenth century fabric. Built for William Fallon c1899 and designed by local architect John AB Koch, it is a two-storey brick (since overpainted) building in the Baroque revival style, with a balustrade parapet and pedimented window openings on the first floor.

Non original alterations and additions are not significant.

How is it significant?
The Prince Alfred Hotel is historically, socially, architecturally and aesthetically significant to the locality of Richmond and the City of Yarra.

Why is it significant?
The Prince Alfred Hotel is architecturally and aesthetically significant (Criteria E & H)as a distinguished, boldly modelled and remarkably well-preserved two storey Baroque revival style corner hotel,andas the design of former Richmond City architect and renowned designer in the State context John A.B. Koch.

The Prince Alfred Hotel is historically and socially significant (Criteria A & G) as a local institution, offering a meeting place in its present form for over 100 years and a hotel site for near to another 50 before that.

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