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FORMER ST NICHOLAS HOTEL SITE
221 MAIN ROAD GOLDEN POINT, BALLARAT CITY
FORMER ST NICHOLAS HOTEL SITE
221 MAIN ROAD GOLDEN POINT, BALLARAT CITY
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The site is first mapped as Allotment 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 of Section Q on the 1857 Revised Town Plan of Main Street. The site abuts an early sludge drain to the north and northeast. The site contains the remains of the former St Nicholas Hotel. The site was likely developed as a residential commercial premises throughout the nineteenth century. The Ballarat DEM predicts approximately 0.5m to 1m elevation increase since 1858.
How is it significant?
The site is of archaeological of local historical significance.
Why is it significant?
The site is of historical significance as the location of an early hotel during the years of the Victorian gold rush. The site is significant as a women run business, in addition to being a hotel ran by Chinese people in the nineteenth century. The later nineteenth century shows the development and likely expansion of the commercial and residential use of the site. The site is of archaeological significance due to its potential to contain artefacts, deposits and features that relate to the establishment of commercial operations and the exchange hotel in the gold rush, and later 19th-century activities.
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