Local Government
Perth
Region
Metropolitan
84 Aberdeen St Northbridge
Also part of Northbridge Urban Renewal Area 14590
Hotel, Deen Hotel
Union Hotel, Cosmopolitan Hotel, The Red Lion
Perth
Metropolitan
Constructed from 1886 to 1923
Type | Status | Date | Documents | More information |
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Heritage List | Adopted | 09 Jan 2004 | ||
Heritage Agreement | YES | 30 Dec 2003 |
Text of the Heritage Agreement |
Heritage Council |
State Register | Registered | 09 May 2003 |
Register Entry Assessment Documentation |
Heritage Council |
Type | Status | Date | Documents |
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(no listings) |
Type | Status | Date | Grading/Management | More information | |
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Category | Description | ||||
Municipal Inventory | Adopted | 13 Mar 2001 | Category 1 |
Category 1 |
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Local Heritage Survey | Adopted | 28 Mar 2023 | Category 1 |
Category 1 |
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Local Heritage Survey | Completed\Draft | Category 1 |
Category 1 |
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Perth Draft Inventory 99-01 | YES | 31 Dec 1999 |
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Heritage Council | |
Statewide Hotel Survey | Completed | 01 Nov 1997 |
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Heritage Council |
The place has aesthetic significance as a finely detailed Victorian Italianate style example of a commercial building as displayed in the Aberdeen Hotel and the Federation Free Style of the St John's Building. The place makes a positive contribution to the streetscape.
The place has historic significance as it reflects the expansion and development of residential and commercial buildings on the city fringes during the rapid population increase of the 1890’s gold boom and the early years of the twentieth century.
The place is representative as an example of a commercial building dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
The Aberdeen Hotel is a well-known local hotel and a popular social venue which has been operating continuously since 1886.
Two storey commercial building with large openings to street facade. Distinguished by wide loggia balcony pilasters, pediments at parapet with masonry balustrade.
A hotel and stables are recorded on this site from at least 1890, when a Mr W. Love was the owner. Since that time, the hotel has had several name changes.
In 1900 it is listed as the Cosmopolitan Hotel; in 1910 the Union Hotel, then the Red Lion Hotel in 1940. The place was subsequently renamed the Aberdeen Hotel. In 1886 a hotel and stables were recorded in the rate book, where the house was previously recorded. John Jones, a brewer, leased the hotel for five years. In 1891 N. Routledge leased the property for ten years. A two-storey building was built next to the hotel in 1892 and was known as Balcony House and was eventually part of the hotel complex.
The lease changed hands after N. Routledge and in 1897 the hotel was noted as the Cosmopolitan in the rates book. In 1898 buildings were constructed around the hotel. In 1901 works to the hotel’s bar and accommodation rooms were approved. In 1904 Friedrich J.L.T Schruth acquired the shop and house on the west side of the hotel. Friedrich Schruth had previously owned the Royal Hotel in Wellington Street. The family owned and leased the hotel which changed its name in 1905 to the Union Hotel. After his death, the licensees changed a few times, however the Schruth family became the licensee again with Heinrich Schruth taking over from 1917 to 1927. Changes in licensees often occurred at this time due to the high cost.
Further alterations were carried out in 1922 which incorporated the shop and building adjacent to the hotel. The colonnades were also built on the ground and first floors at this time. In the 1950s the name changed to the Red Lion hotel and further internal changes occurred in the subsequent decades. In the 1980s the hotel became an important place for Perth’s gay and lesbian community to meet and socialise. Stages were set up at the venue for entertainment during this time.
The hotel was acquired by the Main Roads Department in 1996, along with a number of other properties along the length of the proposed Northbridge Tunnel development.
Medium level of authenticity. Largely intact some restoration and adaptation.
Fair
Name | Type | Year From | Year To |
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P W Harrison | Architect | - | - |
Ref ID No | Ref Name | Ref Source | Ref Date |
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Burswood Bridge and Road Project Northbridge Tunnel Area Heritage Assessment and Report | AMLFRAIA by Ronald Bodycoat and Duncan Stephen and Mercer Architects | ||
The Village Northbridge Heritage Inventory | Develop WA - MRA | August 2002 | |
East Perth Heritage Study | AMLFRAIA by Ronald Bodycoat | ||
Assessment File/s | HCWA | ||
Aberdeen Hotel and St Johns Building Northbridge Conservation Plan | Palassis Architects | March 2022 |
Library Id | Title | Medium | Year Of Publication |
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9452 | Aberdeen Hotel & St Johns building management plan. | Heritage Study {Other} | 2009 |
9189 | Aberdeen Hotel & St Johns Building, Northbridge: Heritage management plan. | Heritage Study {Other} | 2005 |
5356 | Aberdeen Hotel & St Johns Building, Northbridge : conservation plan. | Heritage Study {Cons'n Plan} | 2002 |
Individual Building or Group
Epoch | General | Specific |
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Present Use | COMMERCIAL | Hotel, Tavern or Inn |
Original Use | COMMERCIAL | Hotel, Tavern or Inn |
Style |
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Victorian Italianate |
Federation Free Classical |
Type | General | Specific |
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Wall | BRICK | Common Brick |
Roof | METAL | Corrugated Iron |
General | Specific |
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SOCIAL & CIVIC ACTIVITIES | Cultural activities |
SOCIAL & CIVIC ACTIVITIES | Sport, recreation & entertainment |
OCCUPATIONS | Intellectual activities, arts&craft |
DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY | Immigration, emigration & refugees |
OCCUPATIONS | Commercial & service industries |
OCCUPATIONS | Hospitality industry & tourism |
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