Local Government
Victoria Plains
Region
Wheatbelt
Cnr Poincare & Albert Sts Bolgart
Bolgart Hotel
Victoria Plains
Wheatbelt
Constructed from 1916
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Statewide Hotel Survey | Completed | 01 Nov 1997 |
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Municipal Inventory | Adopted | 27 Oct 1998 | Category 3 |
Category 3 |
The hotel is significant as one of the few state hotels in Western Australia, and the most authentic example of those remaining. It has a sense of place for generations of Bolgart community members, and has a close association with the railways and establishment of the new Bolgart townsite. It is an essential element of the Bolgart streetscape and townscape character.
Double storey brick construction with a gabled corrugated iron roof. Verandahs wrap the upper storey around the two street frontages.
J. H. Phillips made an application for a hotel licence in Bolgart when the railways workers arrived to construct the line northwards. There were 300 people within a 10 mile radius, and accomodation was needed for when the trains often ran late. There was opposition to the application; drunkenness, the distance to the police station in Toodyay, and the Wyening community wanted it located further north. As the Bolgart Bog workers camps grew, the town boomed. In 1914, Government plans were drawn for a single storey hotel in Throssell St Bolgart.(original townsite?) In August 1914, Phillips made a second application. The official response was the proposal to move the siding, have a new townsite surveyed with a block reserved for a State Hotel which would be licensed at once. The proposal from government received no opposition. The townsite was gazetted in November 1914, and surveyed in early 1915, to facilitate a hotel site and licence. After the 1915 floods rendered the 'Bog' siding unusable, the siding at the new townsite proceeded and was completed in early 1916. The hotel plans were altered for the new town and site. The State hotel was only one of a few in the state. (Corrigin, Bruce Rock, Kwolyin (destroyed by fire) and Wongan Hills) In 1960, the hotel passed in to private ownership after the offer to the Bolgart community was rejected.
Integrity: Intact or redeemable
Authenticity: High degree
Good
Ref ID No | Ref Name | Ref Source | Ref Date |
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Erickson R; "The Victoria Plains". | Shire of Victoria Plains | 1971 |
Individual Building or Group
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Present Use | COMMERCIAL | Hotel, Tavern or Inn |
Original Use | COMMERCIAL | Hotel, Tavern or Inn |
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Federation Filigree |
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Roof | METAL | Corrugated Iron |
Wall | BRICK | Common Brick |
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OCCUPATIONS | Hospitality industry & tourism |
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