Palace Hotel, Kalgoorlie
hotel in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
The Palace Hotel is one of a group of heritage hotels on Hannan Street in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.
Location
The hotel is located on the corner of Hannan and Maritana Streets.
It is across the road from the Exchange Hotel, another heritage hotel.
History
The hotel was constructed with ashlar stones in 1897 for Harry Rosenthal, who previously managed the Cleopatra Hotel in Fremantle. It cost £17,000 to build, equivalent to A$2.93 million in 2022.
The hotel opened in December 1897, with forty-four bedrooms. It was designed in the Federation architectural style by the firm Porter & Thomas, and meant to be the most luxurious hotel in Western Australia outside Perth. The furniture came from Melbourne. It became the first hotel in Kalgoorlie to have electric lighting, with its own generator, and fresh water in all bathrooms coming directly from its own condensers.
In the year after its completion regular and repeated newspaper articles and photographs were used to praise the hotel and its presentation.
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