RANGES HOTEL & TREES

Other Name

Main Street, Gembrook

Location

Main Street GEMBROOK, Cardinia Shire

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The Ranges Hotel, which in a lesser form was first owned in 1894 by Jessie Sykes, is of significance to the Cardinia Shire as an important early hotel associated with Gembrook's development as a major resort. The hotel has significance, too, for its associations with the arrival of rail services to the area when the hotel appears to have doubled in size. It has associations with the Pitt brothers and Peter Patroni, hotel keeper, who ran the Ranges Hotel as a major tourist attraction during its heyday in the 1920s.

Despite many alterations and additions in the 1980s to accommodate a motel extension, the 1890s hotel, with the former Gembrook store and coffee palace nearby, retains something of the character of early Gembrook.

The dining room and the mature trees are regionally notable.

Regional Significance

Group

Parks, Gardens and Trees

Category

Trees of social, historic or special significance