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Our History
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The Normanby is entered in the Queensland Heritage Register and listed by the National
Trust as one of the few large suburban hotels from the late 19th century horse and
buggy era to survive in Brisbane.
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The original suburb of Normanby, named after the third Governor of Queensland, George
Augustus Constantine, the Marquis of Normanby, was the hub of colonial traffic and
horse-drawn trams, as well as a station on Brisbane's first suburban rail line.
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Built on the site of a previous timber and shingle hotel at a cost of 4,100 pounds,
the Normanby demonstrates an early Brisbane use of "Queen Anne" stylistic elements
in commercial design.
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The first publican at the original Normanby was Matthew Burton, who bought the land
in 1865 and built the original hotel in 1872. When he died in 1873 the title to
the property passed to his wife, Elizabeth.
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Originally it featured a number of bars and parlours, dining, drawing and billiard
rooms and nine guest rooms on the upper storey.
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The hotel lease changed hands twice before William Valentine took over in 1888 and
decided to upgrade the hotel to something more substantial than the timber original,
which had been oriented in the opposite direction, northeast towards Kelvin Grove
Road. It was completed in 1889 and opened in 1890.
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Elizabeth Burton regained the lease in 1891 and when she died in 1901 her three
sons John, Francis and Richard inherited the property as tenants in common.
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In 1936 the brewers Castlemaine-Perkins Limited, a one-time mortgagor of the property
and long term supplier of beer, bought the Normanby for 52,000 pounds.
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A second building fronting Kevin Grove road was added as a new bar in 1937 along
with two garages that were later converted to a drive-in bottleshop. However a study
prepared for the Brisbane City Council in 1999 found these additions were of a lesser
cultural significance than the main hotel and they were demolished as part of road-widening
for the Inner City Bypass and upgrading of the Normanby Fiveways.
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The Normanby is important as it is one of the last remaining examples of the commercial
work of Brisbane architect John Beauchamp Nicholson, in partnership with Alfred
Wright.
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