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Exchange In Mossman Pty Ltd

Locality: Mossman, Queensland

Address: 2 Front Street 4873 Mossman, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.exchangeinmossman.com.au

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24.01.2022 New owner plans to bring grand old Mossman icon back to its 1940s glory MOSSMAN is going back in time to the 1940s as new owners of the Exchange Hotel formerly the Daintree Inn plan to spend $400,000 to restore the iconic building.

13.01.2022 Exchange In Mossman Pty Ltd

13.01.2022 1896 The Exchange Hotel was built by Denis O’Brien, who also built the North Australian Hotel (now the Central) in Port Douglas in 1878.

03.01.2022 1935-present The Daintree Inn/former Exchange Hotel, built in 1934-35 after a cyclone damaged its predecessor, capitalised on the 1933 completion of the Cook Highway. It is important in illustrating the growth and prosperity of the north Queensland tourism and sugar industries during the 1920s and 1930s and the associated development of Mossman as the administrative heart of the Douglas Shire. The Daintree Inn/former Exchange Hotel also demonstrates a wider pattern of hote...l building, rebuilding and modification in Queensland during the 1930s, undertaken with the support of the Queensland Government to encourage tourism. The Daintree Inn/former Exchange Hotel is a good regional example of a large timber interwar hotel that demonstrates the principal characteristics of its type. Built to provide comfortable accommodation for tourists, its original form and layout is legible and it retains many features including its lounge and coffee room (ballroom) space and evidence of its bars, parlours and retail facilities on the ground floor. On the first floor it retains: largely intact bedrooms, each with wash basin, opening off a central hall and onto wide verandahs; separate male and female bathroom facilities off the rear verandah; and a central guest lounge. Decorative features include ornamental plaster ceilings in the public ground floor spaces, battened sheet ceilings to the first floor rooms and generously sized timber joinery including built-in cabinets. Situated on a prominent corner site, and as the largest of Mossmans three hotels, the place has landmark presence. It also contributes to a streetscape of 1930s buildings, including the Mossman Shire Hall [QHR 602758], the former Jack and Newell building, and the former National Bank of Australasia in Mill Street [QHR 601542].

02.01.2022 1896 The Exchange Hotel was built by Denis OBrien, who also built the North Australian Hotel (now the Central) in Port Douglas in 1878.