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Port Hotel
Lot 384 High Street was occupied from March 1873 by William Stone's 'Port Hotel' boarding-house – without a licence to retail liquor. He offered it for lease in September 1873, but continued in the business, the name of which he changed in April 1874 to the Port Temperance Hotel.
The Port Hotel is shown on an 1885 map in the middle of the south side of what is now the High Street Mall.
Photo of High Street from the first floor of the National Hotel, 1895. The building on the left of the photo is The Broadway which is still standing on the corner of Market Street. There are only three lots in that block of High Street (on the right of the photograph) between Market and William Streets, and 384 is the middle one, so the Port Hotel building would be the one with a striped section in the middle of the verandah.
Nixon Photographer's sign can be seen in William Street, and on the right, in the background, is the wall of the Oddfellows Hall.
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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 5 December, 2023 and hosted at freotopia.org/hotels/porthotel.html (it was last updated on 5 February, 2024). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.