PRINCE CHARLIE HOTEL, later HOTHAM HOUSE, 133 Arden Street, North Melbourne
Butler, Graeme1983
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PRINCE CHARLIE HOTEL, later HOTHAM HOUSE, 133 Arden Street, North Melbourne
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Date of work:
1983
Search dates:
01 Jan 1983 - 31 Dec 1983
Reference number:
Butler14820
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Item from Collection: Heritage Collection (HC)
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GRAEME BUTLER 1983, CONSERVATION STUDY FOR THE CITY OF MELBOURNE OF NORTH AND WEST MELBOURNEHistory - Before this building was purchased by the Melbourne City Mission in 1957, it was the Prince Charlie Hotel built in 1870 for George Thompson owner and licensee for five years after which James Lamb took over the licence. Other licensees were James Kennedy, 1885-1894 and George Jones from 1895 until at least 1898.3 2Description - A two-storey, stuccoed masonry and parapetted corner building. Drip-moulded fenestration is symmetrically arranged on both facades as is a gabled parapet form, set on piers. Ornament is confined to the cornice and string moulds and the window head and sill decoration.Integrity - The parapet gable and entablature may derive from a later period (i.e. 1920s); numerous wall vents have been added and an attached two-storey wing on the south, sometime after 1896 (the original courtyard plan has also been built over).Streetscape - This major corner building is associated by form and some period detail to housing in Arden Street (115-17) but otherwise is isolated.Significance - Architecturally, typically of simple form and fenestration near to original and a major corner element evocative of its former hotel function: of local importance. Historically, a corner hotel building, formerly the focus of social life in the area: of local importance.Recommendations - Repaint in original or typical colours, picking out original extent of building from additions to the east and south.___________________________References:1. Roslyn Otzen Ph. D. Univ. Of Melbourne 1983/84.2. MUNICIPAL RATE BOOK (RB) 1870- 71 , 1804; RB 1875-76, 1522; RB 1885-85, 1450;RB 1890-91, 1500; RB 1895-96, 1457;3. D.1897-98___________________________RESEARCH ADDED BY GRAEME BUTLER 2024:.Robert K. Cole index of Victorian hotels, 1841-1949. State Library of VictoriaReference: Volume 2; Page 49:Licensee: THOMPSON, GEORGE H.Location: ABBOTSFORD, NORTH MELBOURNEDate: 1859.Licensee: LAMB, JAMESLocation: ABBOTSFORD, NORTH MELBOURNEDate: 1872.Licensee: LAMB, LAWRENCE J.Location: ABBOTSFORD, NORTH MELBOURNEDate: 1879.Licensee: CROWE, ISABELLA MrsLocation: ABBOTSFORD, NORTH MELBOURNEDate: 1902/15etc___________________________NEWSPAPERS (TROVE):1907NORTH MELBOURNE.At North Melbourne court yesterday Isabella Crowe, Prince Charlie Hotel, Arden and Abbotsford streets, was charged with having her bar door open on Sunday. Senior Constable Campbell and Constable Davey were admitted to the hotel at 5.22 p.m. on 13th inst., and found the bar door unlocked. Defendant was fined £5..1912REDUCTION BOARDNORTH MELBOURNE LISTS...Prince Charlie Hotel, Ardenstreet.1923NORTH 'MELBOURNEPROSECUTIONS.At North Melbourne court yesterday John Joseph Wilson, Prince Charlie Hotel, was fined 40/ on a charge of having persons on premises during prohibited hours..1925The Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne) Tue 21 Jul 1925P.M. OVERRULED North Melbourne Riot CHARGES DISMISSEDAccusations Against Guider "HASN’T it become a scandal the way you have been hitting people?’'’ asked Mr. Luke Murphy of Alfred Cecil Guider, a licensing constable in the North Melbourne Court yesterday. "No,” replied witness..Partisan feeling was shown by supporters of both sides in a case which arose out of the activities of licensing constables in the vicinity of the Prince Charlie Hotel, Abbotsford-street, North Melbourne, on the evening of July 4.THE CHARGESThe following were before the court:—Claude Dyson, charged with assaulting Constables Guider and Cahill, and using insulting words; D. Dwyer, assaulting Con stable Guider; William Robert Campbell, assaulting Constable Guider; Mrs. Ruby Dwyer, using threatening words; Michael Lane, obstructing Constable Cahill: and Mrs. Dyson, using threatening Claude Dyson also cross summoned Guider for alleged assaultBAG OF BEER.Guider said at 7.50 p.m. on July 4 he saw Dyson approach the hotel and receive a bag. Dyson at tempted to run away when asked for the bag, and called witness "a pimp.” When he was picking up the bag, which contained beer, Dyson hit him in the stomach. “Dyson tried to throw me,” said Guider, “and as he continued to fight I struck him. A number of women and men came up and called me a pimp. "Whilst I was struggling, Campbell hit me on the neck. Dwyer also hit me on the side of the face.WOMEN SCREAMEDWitness said Constables Cahill and Loveridge were with him, and a large crowd gathered. Women commenced to scream and urged the men to attack. Mr. Murphy (for a number of defendants): Were you wearing a ring or a knuckle-duster.—No. Well, were your hands covered in blood?—No. But I washed them at the hotel. Guider denied that he was in the habit of ‘‘slogging” people. He had only been in the ring on one occasion.FOR THE DEFENCETwelve witnesses were called for the defence. Irene Dyson, daughter of Claude Dyson, said she saw Guider strike her father without any warning. “He hit him a cowardly blow on the eye,” said witness, “and when he fell to his knees, struck him again. He fell right on his face. My mother went into hysterics. My father has been weak ever since the assault.” Isabel Dyson, married, said when site asked the police why they had struck her husband. Cahill pushed her away. Daniel Dwyer, railway employe, said Cahill made use of a most obscene expression. He also hit him over the head with the case.P.M. OVERRULEDThe Bench consented to the charge against the women defendants being withdrawn.. “All the cases will he dismissed,” said Mr. Wade, P.M., on the conclusion of the evidence. “I am not in favor of the decision. I am not going to say any more.” With the P.M. were Messrs. F. Young, T. Crosbie and T. Hewitt, J’s. P.
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Melbourne City Mission Building, including former PRINCE CHARLIE HOTEL and row house site, 129-133 Arden Street, North Melbourne (Butler14821\\)Melbourne City Mission hall (including adjoining former PRINCE CHARLIE HOTEL at 133) on row house site, 129-131 Arden Street, North Melbourne (BIF-NORTH 100115\\)
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