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#13894 - No. 2 Hostel site

Resource ID
Location
13894
Photograph 191
Title/subtitle
No. 2 Hostel site
Picture
No. 2 Hostel site
Format
Photograph
Publisher
19 March 1925
Physical description
Black & white photograph; 10cm x 15cm
Summary
No. 2 Hostel site (the Hotel Wellington), on the corner of National Cicuit and Wellington (now called Canberra) Avenue.
Availability
Not for loan. Copies available for purchase.
Notes
The Hotel Wellington opened in 1927 in time for the opening of Parliament House. The building was demolished in 1984 and replaced by the Rydges Capital Hill Hotel. See also 'Canberra's Early Hotels' published by the CDHS.