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2-8 Mouat St, 1904, designed by T. [[../architects/anthoness.html|Anthoness]], built by Taylor.
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Hutchison:
This was built in 1890 [1904]! on the site of an earlier pub, His Lordship’s Larder, a single-storeyed, yellow-painted building. The new hotel—more genteel in style—was obviously built to take advantage of the increased passenger liner trade. It was restored substantially in 1999. 2005: NDUA School of Religious Education, School of Teaching and College of Education.
In 1907 both names were being used in advertising.[1]
[[../books/hitchcock1919.html|Hitchcock 1919]]:
At the time of which we write (1869) what is now Phillimore-street formed part of the old Recreation Ground, known as ‘The Green’, and only a few of the allotments in Mouatt-street were built upon. An old widow lady named Mrs. [[../people/agett.html|Agett]] resided in a fairly large bungalow house on the site now occupied by His Majesty’s Hotel. During the gold boom times this house underwent alterations and additions, and became Fremantle’s first café under the name of ’His Lordship’s Larder’. In course of time a hotel license was secured, and the old building gave place to the present modern structure.
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The original hotel on the site at 2-8 Mouat St was called His Lordship's Larder, and before that, Beach House, when it was the residence of [[../people/agett.html|duBois Agett]] and his wife Eliza. The current building, His Majesty's Hotel (now ND36, the School of Education, part of the [[../notredame/index.html|NDU]], like most of the buildings in these six city blocks of the West End of Fremantle) was briefly called by the former name after its renovation for the [[../events/americascup.html|Americas Cup defence]].
In the 1899 post office directory, the tenants at 2 Mouat Street were Pierce & Murphy, of His Lordship's Larder. They were also there again in 1900, and in 1901. In 1902, C. H. Pierce was alone at no. 2 in His Lordship's Larder. Pierce was there again in 1903. And in 1904. And still again in 1905, in His Lordship's Larder.
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]] In the 1906 directory, the hotel is now called His Majesty's Hotel, and J. B. Murphy is the tenant/licensee/publican. In 1907, there is a new person associated with His Majesty's Hotel: Mrs E. Pierce. But in 1908, C. H. Pierce is back.
The Mail, May 1904:
HIS MAJESTY'S HOTEL. A visitor to Fremantle stepping out of the railway station, has his attention at once arrested by that splendid pile of buildings, His Majesty's Hotel, which has arisen, not from the ashes, but upon tbe site of that quaintly named hostelry, "His Lordship's Larder." The old house was a favorite place of call, but tbe present imposing building, with its sumptuous internal arrangements, its roomy and handsomely furnished bedrooms, its ornate drawing rooms, and spacious billiard and drawing rooms, all finished and adorned with the utmost skill of the decorative artist, and finished in the best style of the upholsterer, may hold its own with the best hotel in the State of Western Australia. Hotel-keeping in the true sense of that word, has become a fine art in Australia, and Messrs Pierce and Murphy, the licensees of His Majesty's Hotel, are experts in the business. The Mail, Fremantle, Thursday 26 May 1904, p. 3.
Daily News 1903: His Lordship's Larder, to be known to futurity as His Majesty's, in Phillimore-street, with its accompanying shops, is being pushed on with celerity ... Daily News Thursday 10 September 1903, p 3.
References and Links
A photograph by [[../people/pickeringalfred.html|Alfred Pickering]] dated 1899 by SLWA shows His Lordship's Larder still in existence.
The Heritage Council page gives the 1890 date (wrongly) for the construction of His Majesty's Hotel.
You can see His Lordship's Larder if you look hard in [[../arthurhead/img/arthurheadview.jpg|this photo]] by Alfred Pickering.
Articles from 1904 published after the new hotel's opening: The Mail, Fremantle, Thursday 26 May 1904, p. 3, as above.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 18 September, 2014 and hosted at freotopia.org/hotels/hismajestys.html (it was last updated on 31 December, 2023), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.
- ↑ Advertising (1907, August 17). The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), p. 3. Retrieved September 19, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article25710525