Keilor Hotel
| Keilor Hotel | |
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 The hotel in 2018 | |
  Location of the hotel in Greater Metropolitan Melbourne | |
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General information | |
| Status | Completed |
| Type | Hotel |
Architectural style | Old Colonial Georgian |
| Location | 670–674 Old Calder Highway, Keilor, City of Brimbank, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Coordinates | 37°43′11″S 144°50′11″E / 37.719700°S 144.836380°E |
Completed | 1848 |
| Owner | Dodd and Goudie families (since 1862) |
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| Material | |
| Website | |
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Official name | Keilor Hotel |
| Type | Registered place |
| Designated | 14 February 2002 |
| Reference no. | H1974 |
| HO12 | |
Category | Recreation and Entertainment |
Official name | Keilor Hotel |
| Type | Defunct register |
| Designated | undated |
| Reference no. | 103747 |
The Keilor Hotel is a hotel located at 670–674 Old Calder Highway, in Keilor, in the City of Brimbank, in the western suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia.
Built in 1848 on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people, the hotel was added to the Victorian Heritage Register on 14 February 2002 in recognition of its historical and architectural significance;[1] and was also added to the non-statutory and now defunct Register of the National Estate on an unknown date.[2]
Description
[edit]The Keilor Hotel is an Old Colonial Georgian-style single storey bluestone building with a slate roof and two projecting hipped bays on either side of a recessed verandah. The bluestone walls were subsequently rendered and the hotel has retained its original form and, as of 2022[update], was still in operation.[1][2]
The hotel, believed to have been constructed in 1848, is located on the main road to Macedon, now called the Old Calder Highway, a site chosen so as to attract passing trade, and was an important stopping place for travellers enroute to squatting runs to the north and west of Melbourne, and later to the Central Victorian goldfields. In 1854, Cobb & Co began running their coaches to the goldfields of Castlemaine and Bendigo, with Keilor as their first main stop. Their practice was to arrange the journey in stretches of approximately sixteen kilometres (ten miles) each, and to change horses at the end of each stretch. The Keilor Hotel was approximately that distance from the Melbourne town centre, and was therefore became a regular coach stop.[1]
Called the Galway Arms Tavern in 1853,[3] and then the Red Lion, the name of the pub was changed to the Keilor Hotel in 1862 when Mathew Goudie bought the hotel[4] for £1,000; and it has been retained in the Dodd and Goudie families since 1862 – and as of November 2020[update], the hotel was owned by Ray Dodd.[5] The pub claims to be Australia's oldest family-owned hotel.[6]
See also
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References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "Keilor Hotel, Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number H1974, Heritage Overlay HO12". Victorian Heritage Database. Heritage Victoria. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
- 1 2 "Keilor Hotel (Place ID 103747)". Australian Heritage Database. Australian Government. n.d. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
- ↑ "COUNTY OF BOURKE QUARTERLY LICENSING DAY". The Argus. No. 1825. Melbourne. 2 March 1853. p. 6. Retrieved 20 September 2026 – via Trove. National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "KEILOR". The Bacchus Marsh Express. No. 769. Victoria, Australia. 26 March 1881. p. 3. Retrieved 20 September 2026 – via Trove. National Library of Australia.
- ↑ Lauaki, Esther (11 November 2020). "Hotel a Keilor landmark". Brimbank Northwest Star Weekly. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- ↑ "History". Keilor Hotel. 2026. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
Further reading
[edit]- Jennison, Susan (2006). Keilor Hotel : history of Keilor Hotel. Keilor, Melbourne, Victoria: Jennpress (self). ISBN 0975186019.
External links
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Media related to Keilor Hotel at Wikimedia Commons
- 1848 establishments in Australia
- Bluestone buildings in Australia
- Buildings and structures in the City of Brimbank
- Buildings and structures completed in 1848
- Old Colonial Georgian architecture in Australia
- Places on the Victorian Heritage Register in the City of Brimbank
- Pubs in Melbourne
- Victorian places listed on the defunct Register of the National Estate