Local Government
Ravensthorpe
Region
Goldfields
51 Morgans St Ravensthorpe
Commercial Hotel & Brown's Hotel
Ravensthorpe Community Centre
Ravensthorpe
Goldfields
Constructed from 1906
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| Municipal Inventory | Adopted | 10 Jul 1998 | ||
Built in 1906 as the Commercial Hotel, the building is still used today. It was the first two storey brick structure in Ravensthorpe and was buill for Mr Charles Farbar Brown. In 1914 the hole! was closed due to the decline in mining. In 1916 it was purchased by Mr Francis A Fallows, in I92S it was dclicensed and from then on it was used as a boarding house, fruit and vegetable shop and barber's shop. In 1947 it was purchased by the Phillips River Masonic Lodge and used as a venue for receptions, billiards competitions, cub and scout groups, kindergarten, CWA, youth groups, museum, NSW Bank, Opportunity Shop and Shire Health and Building Office until restoration to its former glory began in 1989. It was officially reopened in 1993 as the Ravensthorpe Community Centre.
The foundations arc a 3fi bed oi stone with light mortar to allow for slight movement. The damp course is of tar and hemp. Bricks were made locally by Parker and Brady at the kiln west of Floater Road near the Old Newdegate Road. Jarrah for downstairs floors, pine and oregon for upstairs floors and rafters, stamp metal ceiling and iron roof were brought by sea via Hopetoun and thence by horse or donkey teams on wagons.
Integrity: Mostly Intact-Roof and Verandah Replaced Modifications: Restored in 1989-1093
Very Good
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