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Oldest Hotel in Fremantle
Which is the oldest hotel in Fremantle ...
1. still trading in the same building? Federal Hotel, 1887.
2. still trading on the site of an earlier hotel? P&O, 1901 (1830s)
The first hotel in Fremantle was the The Stirling Arms (Robert Thomson, licensee, 1 January 1830) which was on Lot 105, which was on the NW corner of High and Pakenham Streets. The 1910 Bank of Adelaide is now on that corner, with the Navy Club above.
Candidates for category 1
Federal, July 1887
Oddfellows, 1887 - trading as Norfolk - in only half of original building
Beaconsfield, 1894 - traded as Moondyne Joe's, changed back to Beacy
National, 1895
Newcastle Club, 1897 - trading as Newport
Plympton, 1898 - trading as Tradewinds
Australia, 1898
Seaview, 1898 - trading as The Local
Davilak, 1903 - trading as South Beach Hotel
Esplanade, 1903 (1895)
Freemasons, 1903 - trading as Sail and Anchor
Candidates for category 2
P&O, 1901 (1830s)
Orient, 1903 (1849)
Commercial, 1908 (1869) - now trading as a backpackers
Railway, 1898 (1894)
References and links
See the internal links 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 19 September, 2020 and hosted at freotopia.org/hotels/hoteloldest.html (it was last updated on 21 October, 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.