Esplanade Hotel, Perth

Demolished hotel in Perth, Western Australia

Not to be confused with Esplanade Hotel, Fremantle.

The Esplanade Hotel in the 1920s

The Esplanade Hotel[a] 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]

Its early history appears in James Sykes Battye's 1912 Cyclopedia of Western Australia.[1] Various proprietors owned the property over time, including N. W. Harper, who sold it in 1927 to J. Paxton,[2] whose daughter Elsie May Plowman became sole licensee in 1957.[3]

It was located opposite the Perth Bowling Club on the Esplanade Reserve.[4]

The hotel was one of nine in the Perth area to have orders to remove its verandahs in 1962[5] but its owner Elsie May Plowman responded with a successful court action against the Perth City Council regulation.[3][6]

## Notes

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1. ^ Often referred to as the Old Esplanade Hotel to differentiate from the later New Esplanade Hotel.

## References

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1. ^ Battye, James, ed. (1912). The Cyclopedia of Western Australia: an historical and commercial review, descriptive and biographical facts figures and illustrations: an epitome of progress. Vol. 1 (1st ed.). Adelaide: Hussey and Gillingham. pp. 758–759\. OCLC 220346033. Wikidata Q131576638.`{{citation}}`: CS1 maint: overridden setting (link)
2. ^ "Esplanade Hotel Sold". The Daily News. Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 2 December 1927. p. 1. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
3. ^ a b Wendy Birman Plowman, Elsie May (1905–1978) at Australian Dictionary of Biography, 2002
4. ^ "Hotel Esplanade, Perth (advertisement)". Sunday Times. Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 15 September 1929. p. 35. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
5. ^ "In Western Australia This Week". The Canberra Times. 29 December 1962. p. 2. Retrieved 5 December 2014. At Trove
6. ^ Gregory, Jenny (2003). City of Light: A History of Perth Since the 1950s. Perth: City of Perth. p. 114\. ISBN 0-9594632-5-9. LCCN 2005440691. OCLC 54781434. OL 3465933M. Wikidata Q133458669.

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* Photo taken shortly before the hotel was demolished in 1972

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