Hotel Canberra
Hotel Canberra | |
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Commonwealth Avenue, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory | |
Coordinates | 35°17′56″S 149°07′30″E / 35.299°S 149.125°E |
Opening | 1924 |
Management | Hyatt |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 2 |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | John Smith Murdoch |
Developer | Federal Capital Commission |
Other information | |
Number of rooms | 230 |
Number of restaurants | 2 |
Website | |
https://www.hyatt.com/en-US/hotel/australia/hyatt-hotel-canberra-a-park-hyatt-hotel/canbe |
The Hotel Canberra, also known as Hyatt Hotel Canberra, is a historic hotel in the Australian national capital, Canberra. It is located in the suburb of Yarralumla, near Lake Burley Griffin and Parliament House. It was built to house politicians when the Federal Parliament moved to Canberra from Melbourne in 1927. It was constructed by the contractor John Howie between 1922-1925. Originally opened in 1924 as Hostel No. 1, in 1927 it became known as the Hotel Canberra.
History
The
The Hotel Canberra was the first hotel to open in Canberra. It was followed shortly after (in 1926) by the
The Canberra was frequently used as sitting-time accommodation by politicians and, in the early years, as long term accommodation for officials while homes were still being constructed for them.[1] The same was true at the Hotel Kurrajong, with the Kurrajong reputedly favoured by politicians from the Australian Labor Party and the Canberra by politicians from the conservative parties.[4]
When
During
In 1950, the government gave up the management of the hotel and the lease was taken over by
The hotel was designated as part of the National Estate by the federal government in 1980, shortly before a project began in 1982 to restore the hotel to its former glory and extend it in sympathetic style.
On 30 September 1998, the building was added to the Interim Heritage Places Register of the Australian Capital Territory Heritage Register.[7]
The Hyatt Hotel Canberra has been owned by Thailand-based conglomerate TCC Group, which purchased the building for AU $80 million in 2008.[8]
References
- ^ a b c d e Hotel Canberra Australian Heritage Database
- ^ Home Hotel Kurrajong
- ISBN 0-86417-049-1
- ^ Hotel Kurrajong Australian Heritage Database
- ^ Australia's Prime Ministers – Meet a PM – Scullin – Sarah Scullin Archived 30 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- Canberra Times26 August 1982 page 3
- ^ "HOTEL CANBERRA (HYATT HOTEL CANBERRA), YARRALUMLA" (PDF). ACT Heritage Council. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
- ^ Tan, Su-Lin (7 June 2014). "The Thai beer baron eyeing Australand". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
Further reading
- Gugler, Ann, (1994). Builders of Canberra 1909-1929.
- Gugler, Ann, (1997). Westlake One of the Vanished Suburbs of Canberra.