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Topic: Rotorua Hotels, Motels, Guest Houses 1870s-1970s
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A brief location list with names of Establishments with managers and/or owners, A-B. If anyone knows of these people and/or have photographs of the buildings please email Kete Rotorua
| Information for this list came from National Newspapers, Don Stafford's Research Notes, Wises Post Office Guides, Electoral Rolls and Bay of Plenty Phone Books. | ||||||
| Name of Establishment | Era Built | Manager or Owner | Era of Occupation | Street address | When Demolished or Renamed | Site as at 2015 |
| Aaron Motel | c1960s | Ian H. McLean | 1968-1972 | 218 Fenton Street | Demolished March 1986 | Pak-n-Save |
| Herbie & Annette Sewell | c1974-1981 | |||||
| Airdrie Private Boarding House | was King Street Hospital | Lillian J. Clune | c1938-1949 | King Street | Cargan Guest House c1949-c1955 | Flats from c1970 |
| Ambassador Luxury Motel | c1968- | D & N Hart | 1964- | 2 Hinemaru Street | Ambassador Thermal Motel | |
| Kenneth & Rona Allen | 1972 | |||||
| R & G Banks | 1973- | |||||
| Coinwell | c1978 | |||||
| Amber Lodge | c1976 | G. A. Donovan | 50 Hinemaru Street | Amber Pacifica Lodge c1998 | ||
| Arawa House | c1889 | Mr & Mrs Dickie (Richard) Griffiths | c1895-1903, 1919-1934 | NE Cnr Arawa & Amohia Streets | Demolished 1986 | Property block includes Amohia to Haupapa Street - Central Pharmacy |
| Percy J. & Rose Ann Hammond | c1903-1913 | |||||
| Waikato Hospital Board Nurses Home | c1959- | |||||
| Arawa Lodge Motel | c1967 | G. F. Spence | c1967- | 116-118 Arawa Street | Expanded 1973- | Hot Rock Backpackers |
| Beryl Eaton | c1978-1986 | |||||
| Arcadia | c1914- | Mrs Margaret Baird | c1914-1926 | Hinemoa Street | Clubb's Private Hotel c1926- | |
| Mrs Winifred Clubb | 1926 | |||||
| Armidale Private Hotel | c1910 | Mrs Emily Willmott | 1910-1922 | 104 Hinemoa Street | Burned to ground 1924, Rebuilt at 106 Hinemoa Street | John Courts, then DIC, then Postbank/ANZ |
| Mrs T. H. Ashton | 1923-1926 | |||||
| Mrs Emily Carkeek | 1926-1938 | |||||
| Mrs Ann Shepherd | c1938 | |||||
| Ronald & Rebecca Wise | 1939-1947 | |||||
| Louise & Willie Clark | c1953 | |||||
| Norman Newdick | c1957-1963 | |||||
| Ashley House | c1953- | Mrs Isabella L Roberts | 1953-1954 | 85 Hinemoa Street | Demolished to make way for new Post Office in 1966 | Royal Court Apartments |
| Aston Guest House | c1949- | Mrs Florence G. Le Prou | c1949-1954 | 60 Eruera Street | Demolished to make way for Geyser Court c1969 | Approx. Art Expo Gallery |
| Rowland & Evelyn Wood | c1963- | |||||
| The Australia (also known as The Austral) | c1900 | Mr John N McLean | c1906-1930 | SW Cnr Tutanekai & Amohau Streets | Demolished 1985 | |
| George Brett | 1930-1931 | |||||
| Frank Greenfield | 1931-1941 | |||||
| R.N.Z.A.F | 1942-1944 | |||||
| Allan A. & Phyllis McGregor | 1945-1947 | |||||
| George Myers & Harold Holmes | c1950-55 | Flats or Apartments at this time | Austral Buildings | |||
| Australia Inn | Leslie & Gaynor Temple | c1971-1991 | 15 Hinemoa Street | was Bungalow Hotel, Fire destroyed in 1990 & 1991 demolished post fire | 1071 Hinemoa Street, Opus | |
| Bellvue Guest House | c1898 | Mrs Caroline Heerdegen | 1898 | Whaka Road (now Fenton Street) |  |
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| Belmont Guest House | c1910-1972 | Mrs Peak | 1910 | 72 Pukuatua Street | Demolished 1972 | Irvin & Stern c1973-c1984, Furniture Court |
| Mrs Annie Campbell | c1914-16 | |||||
| Miss C. Morgan | 1940-1941 | |||||
| Mr Alfred Savage | 1942-1949 | |||||
| Mr & Mrs Wilfred Quinnell | 1954-1957 | |||||
| Joseph & Dorothy Rosoman | 1963-1964 | |||||
| Mr C. Massey | 1964- | |||||
| Holga W. & Barbara Bellini | 1968-1972 | |||||
| Belvedere Guest House | Unknown | 59 Eruera Street | Demolished 1969 | Courtney's Furnishings ; Woolworths ; now approx. Elim Church c2011- | ||
| Bidwell House Private Hotel | Charles Stewart Bidwell | 1950 | 37 Amohia Street | Reverts to Queensland Private Hotel by 1955 | Railway Motors 1957-1990s, Hammer Hardware ; Godfrey's | |
| Bonchurch Private Boarding House | c1926- | Mrs Melba Haynes | 1926-c1950 | 254 Fenton Street SE cnr Ti Street | Also Known as Melba' nui, demolished pre 1963 | Dallas Motors |
| Bondi Private Hotel | c1899 | Mrs Agnes Henderson | 1925-1926 | 54 Haupapa Street | was Edinburgh 1899-1925, becomes Hotel Delta 1952- then Ivanhoe c1976-1991 | Cactus Jacks |
| William & Katherine Yuill | 1927-1935 | |||||
| Mrs J. Vybanal | 1940-1942 | |||||
| Robert A. Sutherland | 1942 | |||||
| John H. Hodgson | 1943 | |||||
| Mrs Mary A. McGregor | 1943-1944 | |||||
| Mrs M. Edmunds | 1944 | |||||
| Mr Eric C Forster | 1946-1967 | |||||
| Braeside Boarding House | c1910 | Mrs Jane Rennie | 1912-1914 | Arawa Street | was Braeside Private Nursing Home | Unknown |
| Branches Boarding House | c1946 | Harold & Elsie Branch | c1946- | 17 Rangiuru Street | ||
| Brents Hotel | 1885-1979 | Stephen T. Brent | 1885-1921 | 2 Hinemoa Street | Accomodation wings demolished 1979, Beer Garden still open at this time. | Millenium |
| Walter B. Gieson | 1922-1929 | |||||
| Harold E. Mellsop & Co. | 1930- | |||||
| Cyrus C. Hutton | 1933-1934 | |||||
| RNZAF | 1940s incl WW2 years | |||||
| Mr Hartley | 1972-1979 | |||||
| Mervyn Wells (Hotel Manager) | 1972-1981 | |||||
| Brentwood Private Hotel | c1949 | Mrs C. L. McGrath | 1949-1953 | 39 Amohau Street | ||
| Cowan & Ruth Costello | 1949 | |||||
| Brinkley's Boarding House | c1884 | Rebecca Brinkley | 1884-1895 | Lake Road, nxt to Utuhina Stream | see also Grosvenor House | |
| Brookby House | 1950 | A. M. McDonnell | 1950 | 85 Hinemoa Street | also known as Ashley House and previously Randwick House c1906-1947 | Royal Court Apartments (was Post Office 1966-) |
| Brooklyn House | 1906- | Mrs W. E. Bennett | 1906-c1908 | 73 Eruera Street | Becomes -- Hamilton House c1923-Demolished 1966 | Maple Furnishing Co. 1967-c1993 ; Farmers ; The Co-Operative Bank |
| Mrs J. Cross Jnr | 1909 | |||||
| Mrs Constance Watson | 1913- | |||||
| Mrs Emma Andrews | 1915-(see Hamilton House 1923-1928) | |||||
| Buffalo (or Buffet) Boarding House | 1904 | Mr & Mrs John Halkett (or Halcott) | 1904-1920 | Unknown | ||
| Bungalow Private Hotel | c1903- | The Misses Yates | 1903-1905 | 13 Hinemoa Street | was a Nursing Home, the Misses Yates were qualified nurses. | Becomes Australia Inn 1980-1991 -- Now Offices for Opus. |
| Mrs Margaret Melville | 1905-1910 | |||||
| Mrs Kate Constant | 1912-1923 | |||||
| Mr & Mrs Caleb Tapper | 1918-c1938 | |||||
| Mrs Mary K. Chandler | Owner until 1938 | |||||
| Harold & Elsie Branch | 1939-1945 | |||||
| Mrs Ella M Cottrell | 1945-1950 | |||||
| J. Knight | 1950 | |||||
| Joseph & Mabel Duffy | 1949-c1966 | |||||
| Robert & Gladys Lake | 1964-1971 | |||||
| Leslie & Gaynor Temple | 1972-1991 | Fire then demolished 1991 | ||||
| Hugh Lloyd (Manager) | 1979 | |||||
| Neil Kenny (Manager) | 1986 | |||||
| Henry Kenny (Hotel Leasee) | 1986 | |||||
