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The Midland Private Hotel is a Classically styled building, constructed in three main stages between 1879 and 1892. The building is a one and two-storey stuccoed construction with an iron verandah. The lower storey was built by William Kort, a local miner, in 1879 as a dining room and shop. In 1890 Kort's son-in-law Frank Corbel, a builder and master plasterer, took over the business and completed the second stage which saw the addition of a second storey with Italian Renaissance stucco detail. The third stage c.1892 added the two-storey iron verandah and single storey pavilions to the street frontage. The significant dining room has a coved ceiling and lantern.
The Midland Private Hotel is of historical and architectural importance to the State of Victoria.
The Midland Private Hotel is historically significant for its association with the Temperance movement and the associated establishment of Coffee Palaces in Victoria. During the 1880s, Victoria saw greater restrictions placed upon state licensing laws, which was due in part to pressure from the increasingly powerful temperance movement. The stricter laws sought to curb criminal activities and moral decrepitude, which were seen to be directly linked to the liquor industry. The building of coffee palaces increased during this period as they provided dining and accommodation without dependence upon fermented or spiritous liquor, therefore serving as suitable alternatives to hotels. The Midland Private Hotel is an outstanding example of a former Coffee Palace and is significant for its ability to describe changes in social values and attitudes. The building represents an era when temperance was an important issue in the colony and it remains as an attestation to the efforts of the movement. The conversion of the original private hotel into a Coffee Palace followed a major colonial trend and its siting, opposite a busy railway station, describes the important relationship between transport and trade.
The Midland Private Hotel is architecturally significant, particularly for its dining room which is substantially intact and has a direct association with the Coffee Palace era. Few former Coffee Palaces retain such elements and on this basis, the Midland Private Hotel remains as a rare example of a building type. The Midland Private Hotel is architecturally important as a representative example of a late 19th century provincial railway hotel with a near intact 1890s facade and an uncommonly long iron verandah. |
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