Alpine Lodge Motel
Alpine Lodge Motel is a heritage-listed former group of terrace houses and now motel at 244–248 Sloane Street, Goulburn, New South Wales, Goulburn, Goulburn Mulwaree Council, New South Wales, Australia. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. History The buildings that now form the Alpine Lodge Motel were built in 1872 for local businessman Charles Rogers as a line of four separate terrace houses of two and three storeys. It was subsequently converted to guesthouse accommodation. In 1893, Rogers conjoined and renovated the terraces as the Temperance movement Metropolitan Coffee Palace, operated by Mr. W. Fry (also known as Fry's Coffee Palace). It continued in operation as a coffee palace under successive owners, later known as Field's Coffee Palace and Stock's Coffee Palace until at least 1911. One of the four terraces was later demolished. It was converted to modern motel accommodation in the 1990s. Heritage listing Alpine Lodge Hot ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  

Goulburn, New South Wales
Goulburn ( ) is a regional city in the Southern Tablelands of the Australian state of New South Wales, approximately south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Canberra. It was proclaimed as Australia's first inland city through letters patent by Queen Victoria in 1863. Goulburn had a population of 23,835 at June 2018. Goulburn is the seat of Goulburn Mulwaree Council. Goulburn is a railhead on the Main Southern line, a service centre for the surrounding pastoral industry, and also stopover for those traveling on the Hume Highway. It has a central park and many historic buildings. It is also home to the monument the Big Merino, a sculpture that is the world's largest concrete-constructed sheep. History Goulburn was named by surveyor James Meehan after Henry Goulburn, Under-Secretary for War and the Colonies, and the name was ratified by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. The colonial government made land grants to free settlers such as Hamilton Hume in the Goulburn area from the o ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]