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City of Port Phillip Heritage Review<br />

Identifier<br />

Formerly<br />

Address<br />

Constructed 1937<br />

Amendment C 29<br />

Comment<br />

Significance<br />

Description<br />

Prince of Wales Hotel<br />

unknown<br />

29 Fitzroy St<br />

ST. KILDA<br />

A representative example of Modernist streamlined hotel design, primarily of significance as one of an<br />

important series of residential hotels and guest houses in Fitzroy Street, and as one of the `bookends' to the<br />

cafe and retail strip on the north side of Fitzroy Street. The hotel has been a significant social landmark in its<br />

various forms since the nineteenth century and has important historical associations as the wartime<br />

headquarters for American officers and as an entertainment venue.<br />

Primary Source<br />

Style : Functionalist<br />

Four storey hotel<br />

Builder: Hansen and Yuncken<br />

Category Commercial<br />

Designer Robert H. McIntyre<br />

Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan, St Kilda 20th century Architectural Study Vol. 3, 1992<br />

Other Studies<br />

The current Prince of Wales Hotel is a rebuilding of an earlier hotel that existed on this site. At the time of its<br />

completion the new building was regarded as one of the most up to date in Melbourne, with a shift away from<br />

the reliance on bar trade, which had formerly characterized the establishment, towards more diverse venues<br />

including lounges with fireplaces, private rooms for functions and a dining room. The entrance to the<br />

residential section was faced in black Carrara glass with the motif of the Prince of Wales feathers in stainless<br />

steel. The motif was continued in sand blasted glass panels elsewhere in the hotel.(1)<br />

History<br />

see Description<br />

Beaconsfield Pde<br />

Fitzroy St<br />

Acland St<br />

Heritage Precinct Overlay<br />

Heritage Overlay(s)<br />

Park St<br />

HO5<br />

Jackson St<br />

<strong>Citation</strong> No:<br />

1473

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