Bayview Hotel including interior

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The Bay View Hotel, formerly the Western Hotel, a three storey stone building with a Barrabool sandstone facade, was erected in 1853 for publican Henry Rourke.

The Bay View Hotel was one of 19 hotels erected in Geelong I 1853-54 to accommodate the influx of gold seeking immigrants to this burgeoning town. This substantial hotel is an important example of stylized Renaissance Revival architecture I Victoria and an interesting work of John Young, the most accomplished and original of Geelong's early architects. The unusual enframed window details and curved corner arrangement is characteristic of the architect's work.

RECOMMENDATIONS: PROTECTIVE MEASURES

Geelong Regional Commission Register

Historic Buildings Council register

REFERENCES

Geelong Advertiser

11 October, 1854

24 August, 1854, tenders for construction and completion.

4 September, 1854.

21 November, 1854.

15 May, 1856.

30 December, 1858.

30 May, 1859.

14 October, 1862

5 November, 1885, tenders for additions, repairs etc.

Huddle, Lorraine - 'Architects in Geelong in the 1840's and 1850's Humanities research report, Department of Architecture, University of Melbourne, 1979. Vol 1, pp 17-34, Vol 2, p29.

National Trust of Australia (Victoria), File No 938.

G Seaton - The Ashby Story - A History of Geelong West, , Adams Printers Pty ltd, for Geelong West City Council, 1978, pp 53, 54.

Geelong Advertiser - 2nd January, 1880 'Western House' For Sale or To Let Boarding Establishment with cottage situated corner Latrobe Terrace and Mercer Street.

Removed from City Fringe Heritage Area (HO1639)

Group

Commercial

Category

Hotel