Menzies Hotel, William Street, Melbourne, 1911 Victorian Places


Menzies Hotel, corner of Bourke and William Street, Melbourne, late 1860s Douglas Stewart Fine

Saturday, July 11, 2020 Farewell to Sydney's Menzies Hotel Sydney's Menzies Hotel was opened on 17th October 1963, by Premier R.J. Heffron and named after Sir Archibald Menzies, a pioneer in Australian hotels. The hotel build cost was 2.5 million pounds with 260 rooms and suites.


Menzies Hotel City Collection

On 14 Mar 1853 the Archibald opened the first Menzies Hotel at 235 Latrobe Street, Melbourne. Archibald built his next Menzies Hotel on the corner of William and Bourke Streets, Melbourne in 1867. [3]


Lounge Menzies Hotel Melbourne Australia C Editorial Stock Photo Stock Image Shutterstock

Monochrome photograph of Menzies Hotel, Melbourne, taken by the studio of Nettleton & Arnest circa 1890. This photograph is part of a collection of 47 photographs of Melbourne taken in the late nineteenth century by the commercial photographic studio of Nettleton and Arnest.


Menzies Hotel, Melbourne Shawfactor

Walking through the CBD now, few Melbournians realise that high rises stand where the Menzies Hotel or the Eastern Market were only 50 or so years ago. It's unheard of that such buildings could be destroyed under the Heritage legislation in place now. Eastern Market, Bourke Street East circa 1876-1894.


Chris Suhr's Menu Collection Menzies Hotel Melbourne

Menzies Hotel was one of Melbourne's grandest hotels, but by the 1960s it was unable to compete with the newer international hotel chains; one of these being the Intercontinental group's Southern Cross Hotel opened in 1962. Menzies was closed in 1969 and demolished,.


Sievers, Wolfgang, 19132007. Diners being served from a carvery in the dining room at the

Menzies Hotel was the first of Melbourne's grand Victorian era hotels. For many years it was regarded as the finest hotel in Melbourne and boasted many famous guests. It was extended and remodelled many times. Scottish immigrants Archibald and Catherine Menzies opened the first Menzies Hotel in 1853 in Latrobe Street, near Elizabeth Street.


Menzies Hotel in Menzies, Western Australia Clubs and Pubs Near Me

Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, Australia, was an important Victorian-era city and erected "some of the world's most majestic buildings" of the era. Several buildings survive from the period, including the State Library of Victoria (1856), Parliament House (1856), the General Post Office (1867 and 1887), the Royal Exhibition Building (1880), the Windsor Hotel (1884), the Block Arcade (1893.


Club Bar, Menzies Hotel, Melbourne 1965 (photo by Wolfgang Sievers) Source

The Menzies Hotel, built on the corner of Bourke and William Streets in 1867, was one of the city's few grand and elegant Victorian hotels, pitched at the high end of the market - appealing to both local and international guests. But like all but one of its peers (the Windsor Hotel), this dignified 'grand dame' became a casualty of its times.


Negative H.J. Heinz Company, Social Event, Menzies Hotel, Melbourne, 18 Dec 1959

The stretch of Little Lon between Swanston and Elizabeth was more industrial than naughty—home to an Indian rubber clothing manufacturer, a confectioner, cigarette makers, the St Francis Church School and the Hibernian Hotel.


Menzies Hotel opens in Melbourne Australian food history timeline

Menzies Hotel, on the corner of Bourke and William Streets , was the first of Melbourne's grand Victorian-era hotels. For many years it was regarded as the finest hotel in Melbourne and boasted many famous guests. It was extended and remodelled many times, but in 1969 was demolished to make way for an office building.


Menzies at Malvern, Melbourne Australia CKA Caulfield Krivanek Architecture

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Menzies Hotel at the corner of Bourke and William Streets,Melbourne in Victoria (year unknown

Menzies Hotel, Melbourne 1939. Menzies Hotel was established at the corner of Bourke and William Streets in 1867, and was to become one of the leading hotels in Melbourne. A series of works occurred to the hotel in the 1920s and 30s, to upgrade its facilities to modern standards in order to compete with newer hotels such as the Hotel Alexander.


Menzies at Malvern, Melbourne C&K Architecture

Situated at the south-east corner of Bourke and William streets, Menzies Hotel was the first of Melbourne's grand hotels and certainly one of the finest. In 1872 English author Anthony Trollope noted that he had never stayed 'at a better inn in any part of the world'.


Menzies Hotel, corner of Bourke and William Street, Melbourne, late 1860s by [PATERSON BROS

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Menzies Hotel, William Street, Melbourne, 1911 Victorian Places

Melbourne's hotels - or 'pubs' as they are commonly known - have been community centres for the consumption and sale of drink, and providers of accommodation (most typically, but not always, for travellers) since foundation and early settlement.


Menzies Hotel, Melbourne, 1870s Albumen print photograph o… Flickr

1984 - The Menzies at Rialto hotel opened 2006 - Hotel management taken over by InterContinental Hotels Group and an extensive $50 million luxury refurbishment took place 2008 - InterContinental Melbourne The Rialto opens Our Story