Eureka Hotel
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| Eureka Hotel | |
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  Location of Eureka Hotel in Queensland  Eureka Hotel (Australia) | |
| Location | Hervey Range Road, Hervey Range, Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 19°21′19″S 146°27′12″E / 19.3553°S 146.4534°E |
| Design period | 1840s–1860s (mid-19th century) |
| Built | c. 1865 |
| Official name | Eureka Hotel (former) |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600923 |
| Significant period | 1860s (fabric) 1865–1908 (historical) |
| Significant components | shed/s, stockyards |
Eureka Hotel is a heritage-listed hotel at Hervey Range Road, Hervey Range, Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built c. 1865. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.[1]
The first recorded licensee, Charles Saville Rowe, was operating from the hotel in 1865. It was built at the top of Thorntons Gap on Herveys Range to accommodate travellers moving down to the plains at Townsville and up to the new gold fields and pastoral leases west and north of Charters Towers. The hotel was first known as the Eureka, as the Sanatorium by c. 1879, as Rolfe's in c. 1882 then as the Eureka from 1884 to 1886 and finally as the Range from 1886.[1]
William James Rolfe became the licensee in c. 1875 and he or members of his family were responsible for the name changes for the next thirty three years. After acquiring the property in 1875 William Rolfe erected another building of sawn timber while retaining the original structure. The second building was moved to a property in the Upper Ross area sometime this century and was later destroyed by a bushfire.[1]
After the licence was surrendered sometime after 1908 the building was owned by the Moodie family who used it as refreshment rooms and a dance hall. It was later acquired by the Fryer family, early landholders in the region, and sold to the present owners in 1984.[1]
