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WATERLOO CUP HOTEL

Location

252 MARIBYRNONG ROAD,, MOONEE PONDS VIC 3039 - Property No 175538

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The Waterloo Cup Hotel, opened in October 1889 at 252 Maribyrnong Road, Moonee Ponds is significant.

How is it significant?
The Waterloo Cup Hotelis of historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Moonee Valley.

Why is it significant?
It is historically important (Criterion A) as one of a number of prominent and substantial hotels in the Municipality recalling its importance at the time of the 1880's Land Boom. Its proximity with the Saltwater River associates the hotel with the role of this water course as a recreational resource last century and well into this century.

It is aesthetically important (Criterion E) as a substantial and externally intact (Criterion B) three storeyed hotel in the Italianate manner, being in this respect representative of many throughout the metropolis.

Group

Commercial

Category

Hotel