GUESS WHO HAS TURNED 120 YEARS OLD...?

On Saturday the 12th of October the Mundaring Hotel celebrating 120 years since it opened in 1899 by then owner H.A. Hummerston.

Lost Mundaring & Surroundings held a display featuring old photos and information of the hotel on Saturday to fit in with the celebration!

History of the Hotel...

On 22nd October 1898, soon after the Mundaring townsite was gazetted in May 1898, H.A. Hummerston, then licensee of the Helena Vale Hotel in Railway Parade Midland, acquired lots 54 and 55 on the corner of Jacoby and Nichol Streets and near to the newly-built Mundaring Railway Station. In April 1899, the first publican Albert Maddock, opened the two-storey, brick building for business. In June 1900, John Chipper took over the lease and began to advertise to attract the holiday resort trade. It became a very popular weekend retreat and many other guest houses and cottages, such as 'Temuka', followed the trend. Before the Masonic Lodge in Jacoby Street was built in 1926, meetings of the local Freemasons Lodge were held in the hotel. In January 1929, the lease was taken over by Bob Crawford from the Freemasons Hotel in Bridgetown. After Hummerston died in 1932, the hotel was bought by Mundaring identity Fred Jacoby. Jacoby first came to Mundaring in November 1893, when he and brother Mathieson Harry and father Daniel purchased the vineyard Peter Gugeri had established in 1882. In recent times, the hotel was owned by prominent Mundaring family, the Italiano Brothers.

Information courtesy of  WA Heritage Council.

***BELOW: Article advertising Mundaring Hotel, 1980s Courtesy of SLWA***