Esplanade Hotel, Perth

Not to be confused with Esplanade Hotel, Fremantle.

The Esplanade Hotel^[1] was a hotel on The Esplanade across from Esplanade Reserve in Perth, Western Australia. Its demolition in 1972 was controversial because of the building's beauty and popularity.^{[citation needed]}

The Esplanade Hotel in the 1920s

Its early history appears in James Sykes Battye's 1912 Cyclopedia of Western Australia.^[2] Various proprietors owned the property over time, including N. W. Harper, who sold it in 1927 to J. Paxton,^[3] whose daughter Elsie May Plowman became sole licensee in 1957.^[4]

It was located opposite the Perth Bowling Club on the Esplanade Reserve.^[5]

The hotel was one of nine in the Perth area to have orders to remove its verandahs in 1962^[6] but its owner Elsie May Plowman responded with a successful court action against the Perth City Council regulation.^[4][7]

Notes

1. Often referred to as the Old Esplanade Hotel to differentiate from the later "New Esplanade Hotel"
2. Battye, J. S. (James Sykes), 1871-1954 (1912), The Cyclopedia of Western Australia : an historical and commercial review, descriptive and biographical facts figures and illustrations : an epitome of progress, Printed and published for the Cyclopedia Company by Hussey & Gillingham, retrieved 18 June 2012{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) vol 1. pp 758-759
3. "Esplanade Hotel Sold". The Daily News. Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 2 December 1927. p. 1. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
4. Wendy Birman Plowman, Elsie May (1905–1978) at Australian Dictionary of Biography, 2002
5. "Hotel Esplanade, Perth (advertisement)". Sunday Times. Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 15 September 1929. p. 35. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
6. "In Western Australia This Week". The Canberra Times. 29 December 1962. p. 2. Retrieved 5 December 2014. At Trove
7. Gregory, Jenny (2003), City of Light : a History of Perth Since the 1950s, City of Perth, ISBN 978-0-9594632-6-2 p.114

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• Photo taken shortly before the hotel was demolished in 1972

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