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189430

Former Australian Felix Hotel

Morell's Hotel ,  National Australia Bank ,  Richardson's Hotel

168-174 Bourke Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B6214

This corner-sited, two-storey former hotel building in the Italian Renaissance manner was rebuilt in 1860 on the site of an earlier 1846 hotel structure. Last known as Richardson's Hotel, it was licenced to Robert Sawyers in 1847 as the Australian Felix Hotel. This building is of national cultural significance as the headquarters of the Richardson Hotel chain from the turn of the century until 1944. The chain's founder, James Richardson (1865-1951), who also lived in the hotel's ... more

B6214

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