Devonshire Arms Hotel, Fitzroy
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The Devonshire Arms Hotel opened in 1843.[1] The hotel was erected and owned for 50 years by local entrepreneur Francis Clark.[2] Clark had arrived in Melbourne in 1840, and became manager of James Palmer's lemonade and soda factory. He opened a butcher's shop near the corner of Bourke Street and Elizabeth Street in 1845, and later another shop in Richmond. He bought speculative property around Fitzroy and Alphington, and lived a prosperous life. Although he hailed from Essex, the hotel was given the name Devonshire Arms, owing to the pre-goldrush population of the area being principally from the south-west of England.
It was one of 27 Melbourne hotels forced to close by a July 1920 meeting of the Licensing Reduction Board, formally being delicensed in December that year.[3][4] The building was raided by police in January 1921, who seized alcohol and laid charges for selling liquor without a license, but the charges were dismissed.[4][5] The building later operated as a hostel.[6]
The building is now part of St Vincent's Hospital, housing the hospital's Department of Addiction Medicine.[7]
The site is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register and is included a Heritage Overlay. [1]
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