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Bellevue Hotel
Queens Place
In a time when Brisbane was known as a cultural backwater, the Bellevue Hotel was at the forefront of change as a new era of fine dining, entertainment and accommodation. Located close to Parliament House and the Queensland Club, the hotal was utilised for official functions, weddings, dances, dinners and gala events during the war years.
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Famous for its architectural elegance, it was the ornate iron work adorning the verandahs that set the location apart from most others in the city.
A hotel establishment existed on the site from as early as the 1850s, and three successive 'Bellevues' followed consecutively. The main andmost ornate version appeared in 1886, designed by John Cohen, for proprietor J.A. Zahel.
Cohen was tasked with designing a hotel that would be 'commercially successful and climatically adapted, while blending into the fashionable parliamentary precinct.' Cohen’s design incorporated a rendered brick three sided core enclosed by a verandah web of filligree cast iron.
By 1887, there...
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