Sydney Art Deco Heritage

The Petersham Inn at 386 Parramatta Road in Petersham is a fine interwar hotel was designed by Rudder and Grout to replace the existing hotel on the site which had been purchased by Tooth and Company in the 1930s. In 1940 a major extension to the Phillip street side was built called the Western Lounge. It featured a dramatic Art Deco tower designed by Leslie Soden and remains a local landmark today. A small plaque to the right of the tower notes this information. In 2001 the site was redeveloped to include 92 luxury apartments and studios while maintaining the hotel's original heritage. Petersham Inn facade detail Petersham Inn side entrance Commemorative plague outside side entrance Front Entrance doors Sources: Sydney Heritage Listings Citadel Property Group newsletter

The Alfred Hotel at 51 Missenden Road, Camperdown, was originally established in 1861 as the Grose Farm Hotel and later O’Kanes Grose Farm Hotel. It was renamed The Alfred Hotel in the 1980s. The unique horseshoe-shaped bar and art deco features give the pub its warm and friendly character. The Alfred Hotel is of aesthetic significance as a 1939 hotel design by Copeman, Lemont & Keesing, and as a representative of an interwar Art Deco style hotel. The Alfred Hotel is stylistically similar to the Australian Hotel in Chippendale and features the same tiled façade cladding and is listed on the RAIA register of significant 20th century buildings. Alfred Hotel facade detail Sources: Sydney Heritage Listings

The Lakes Hotel at 307 Gardiners Road in Mascot is a handsome interwar period Functionalist style suburban hotel designed by Architect J Dalziel for Tooth & Co. The builder was CE Paynter and Co. and it was completed on August 1st 1938 The curved wall corners in the upstairs verandah provide an expansive feeling to the building and balance well with the stepped roof line from the main front facade. It has excellent live jazz weekends. Facade detail Upstairs verandah detail Public bar when it first opened Tooths & Co had a formulaic approach to their hotels which is why there is such a similarity between them all. A modern example would be Westfields. No matter which one you go to there is a familiar format that makes you feel quite at home. Of course getting you to spend big (or drink big?) is a great way to make a fortune. Sources: ANU Open Research Library