Ravenshoe Hotel Tully Falls

Australian Army Officers’ Quarters

During the occupation of the Atherton Tableland by the Australian Army from 1943 to 1945 the hotel was requisitioned and served as an officers’ quarters and mess.

After World War II, along with the nearby Club Hotel, the building resumed use as a community hub and local tourism attraction, and was renamed the Hotel Tully Falls.

Place information

Location

Griggs Street

Ravenshoe, QLD 4888

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Place type

Military accommodation

History

The hotel is a typical north Queensland single skinned timber building with exposed stud framework of milled timber and weatherboard, roofed with corrugated iron. Though slightly damaged in 2006 during Cyclone Larry the hotel remains an imposing two-story building with partly enclosed upper-floor verandahs, decorative projecting gables, casement windows and a hipped iron roof.

This establishment was built in 1927 by John and Connie Ross and originally known as the Millstream Hotel. By the mid-1930s it had been renamed the Ravenshoe Hotel and it has always been famous as Queensland’s highest pub.

At over 900 metres above sea-level Ravenshoe is Queensland’s highest...

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