ALL NATIONS HOTEL

Location

64 LENNOX STREET,, RICHMOND VIC 3121 - Property No 149495

File Number

Y2011:2198

Level

Incl in HO area indiv sig

Statement of Significance

What is significant?

The All Nations Hotel, as built for Anton Schultz in 1869-70 and the additions made prior to 1945, at 64 Lennox Street, Richmond is significant. This is a two-storied corner Renaissance Revival hotel of five bays to York Street and four to Lennox, with a receding corner splay, rendered, with a parapet. There is a cornice and frieze with a corner round-headed centrepiece, with acroterion and scroll brackets over a blind window. There is cornice and frieze at first-floor level also, with six nineteenth century ventilators and keystone over entry. Windows have architrave moulds with foliated cill brackets and corner windows are shop windows. There are ceramic tiles below dado, and leadlight windows in the ground floor window facing York Street.
Alterations and additions made to the hotel after 1945 are not significant 

How is it significant?

The All Nations Hotel at 64 Lennox Street, Richmond is architecturally, historically and socially significant to Richmond. 


Why is it significant?

The All Nations Hotel is historically and socially significant (Criteria A & G) as an early hotel in this area, which has operated continuously since 1870 as a local corner pub.
The All Nations Hotel is architecturally significant (Criterion D) as well-preserved Renaissance Revival hotel, which has typical form and detailing.

Group

Commercial

Category

Hotel