Fyansford Hotel including interior

The Fyansford Hotel, near the junction of the Barwon and Moorabool Rivers, marks one of the oldest river crossing places in Western Victoria and the site of the once active Fyans Town. This two storey brick structure, a transitional Colonial Georgian style hotel, was erected 1854-55 for publican C.B. Dawson. The architect is unrecorded. The distinctive symmetrical fenestation and angled corner entrance now enclosed, were characteristic mid-19th century features of public house architecture. The Fyansford Hotel was one of 19 structures built in Geelong and district immediately following the gold rushes. The hotel has important landmark associations with this historic district.

Geelong Advertiser, 1 July 1854, p.7, col. 6. "Hotel at Fyans Ford" tenders requested for erection of above for Mr. C. B. Dawson.

Brown, P.L. "Geelong the Essential Streams" in Historic Places of Australia vol.1.1. Cassell, Melbourne 1978, pp. 62-75, particularly for details of early settlement along Barwon and Moorabool Rrs.

Brownhill, W.R. A History of Geelong and Corio Bay - Wilke and Co., Melbourne, 1955, pp. 571-573, including illustrations Fyansford Township.

Wynd, Ian "So Fine a Country a History of Corio Shire", typescript 1980, p. 121.

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Commercial

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Hotel