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Peninsula Hotel Maylands
Peninsula Hotel, Railway Parade cnr Eighth Avenue, 1906
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Designed, built, owned, and operated by the egregious Gus Liebe, whose life story is worth a look. The building is now owned by Dôme.
As a child, growing up three doors from the Peninsula Hotel, I did not understand why it was named after some peninsula, when there is nothing remotely like a peninsula near it. Even when I found out that the bend in the Swan River is said to meander around a 'peninsula', it still didn't make sense, as that's not what a peninsula is usually thought to be, and the hotel is still just as far away from where the Hardey's farm was in the 1830s. I suppose when Gus Liebe built the hotel, 'Peninsula' was the most meaningful placename in the area, as there wasn't much else there. He could have called it the 'Railway', but there are lots of those, and Gus was no man for anything so ordinary.
References and Links
Maylands Historical and Peninsula Association flickr page.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 22 December, 2021 and hosted at freotopia.org/hotels/peninsula.html (it was last updated on 29 November, 2023). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.