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The Grand Hotel

Location 270 Maroondah Highway and Cnr Green Street,, HEALESVILLE VIC 3777 - Property No B6355 File Number B6355 Level Regional

[1/2] B6355 Grand Hotel Healesville [2/2] B6355 Grand Hotel Healesville

Statement of Significance

The three storey Grand Hotel, built in 1887-88 for Adolphus Edgecumbe, is architecturally significant at a regional level as the work of eminent architect, William Pitt. Of brick construction with stucco dressings on the two main elevations, it is distinguished by a top storey within a mansard roof.
The Grand Hotel is historically significant in its ability to demonstrate the increasing populartiy in walking and Field Naturalist Clubs, and the pursuit of "healthy" leisure activities, which occurred at the end of the nineteenth century and resulted in the demand for accommodation in establishments such as the Grand.
The Grand Hotel is also historically significant in its ability to indicate the changing fashions and demands of those seeking leisure activities in locations such as Healsville, and also the decline in the need for accommodation because of the easier forms of access to the area available by the improvement of roads and the introduction of the motor car and coach. The replacement of the original central first floor and ground floor loggias, and the "modernisation" of the hotel with the addition of a verandah in the 1930s, is illustrative of the desire at the time to attract clientele to more modern establishments.
Classified: 15/07/1992