Esplanade Hotel, Perth

The Esplanade Hotel[1] was a hotel on The Esplanade across from Esplanade Reserve in Perth, Western Australia. Its demolition in 1972 was controversial because of the building's beauty and popularity.

Not to be confused with Esplanade Hotel, Fremantle.

The Esplanade Hotel in the 1920s

Its early history appears in James Sykes Battye's 1912 Cyclopedia of Western Australia.[2] Various proprietors owned the property over time, including N. W. Harper, who sold it in 1927 to J. Paxton,[3] whose daughter Elsie May Plowman became sole licensee in 1957.[4]

It was located opposite the Perth Bowling Club on the Esplanade Reserve.[5]

The hotel was one of nine in the Perth area to have orders to remove its verandahs in 1962[6] but its owner Elsie May Plowman responded with a successful court action against the Perth City Council regulation.[4][7]

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Notes
  1. Often referred to as the Old Esplanade Hotel to differentiate from the later "New Esplanade Hotel"
  2. Battye, J. S. (James Sykes), 1871-1954 (1912), The Cyclopedia of Western Australia : an historical and commercial review, descriptive and biographical facts figures and illustrations : an epitome of progress, Printed and published for the Cyclopedia Company by Hussey & Gillingham, retrieved 18 June 2012{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) vol 1. pp 758-759
  3. "Esplanade Hotel Sold". The Daily News. Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 2 December 1927. p. 1. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  4. Wendy Birman Plowman, Elsie May (1905–1978) at Australian Dictionary of Biography, 2002
  5. "Hotel Esplanade, Perth (advertisement)". Sunday Times. Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 15 September 1929. p. 35. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  6. "In Western Australia This Week". The Canberra Times. 29 December 1962. p. 2. Retrieved 5 December 2014. At Trove
  7. Gregory, Jenny (2003), City of Light : a History of Perth Since the 1950s, City of Perth, ISBN 978-0-9594632-6-2 p.114

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