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A brief location list with names of Establishments with managers and/or owners, C-D. 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 | Managers / Owners | Era of Occupation | Location | Demolished/or | Site as at 2015 |
Cargan Guest House | see Airdrie Private Boarding House | Miss Doreen P. Worth | 1949-1955 | 31 King Street | 1970 | Flats |
"Carlton Club" Carlton Temperance Hotel | 1885 | Mr Lewis Lee | 1885 | Ohinemutu | Unknown | |
John Wilkinson | 1885-1887 | |||||
Mrs Caroline Heerdegen | 1888 | |||||
Mr John N. McLean | 1906 | |||||
William R. Melvin | 1905, then 1907 | |||||
Jas. Wilson | 1912-1918 | |||||
Central Apartment House (Private Hotel) | c1923 | Mrs Ada Berry | 1923 | Pukuatua Street | Unknown | |
Central House | c1904 | Mrs Ellen G. Perrin | 1904-1912 | ? Hinemaru Street | Sold to Private Owner 1912, ceases to be a Guest House. | |
Chirms Private Hotel | c1930- | Charles & Harriet Chirm | 1930-c1947 | 15/17 Hinemoa Street | was The Langham & Tremayne Guest Houses? | |
Mrs Dorothy Peterson & F.J. Cheater | c1947-1951 | |||||
Cloverleigh Guest House | c1955 | Walter G. Minnitt | 1956-1957 | 81 Eruera Street | Demolished 1978 | |
Mrs Mary P. Bickerstaff | 1960-1969 | |||||
Joyce Oriowski | 1969 | |||||
Clubb's Private Hotel | see Arcadia | Mrs Winifred Clubb | 1926-1931 | by Railway Gates Adjoining Government Gardens | ||
Colonial Inn | Gabriel & Roger Thomas | c1978 | Hinemaru Street | was, Minerva Court - YHA Hostel | Crash Palace Backpackers | |
The Commonwealth | c1910 | Mrs Edith Pearce | 1910-1911 | 84 Hinemoa Street | becomes the Tainui then, demolished 1961/62 | State Insurance Building now Quest Apartments |
Mrs Varah Mangham | 1914-15 then 1917 | |||||
Mrs Kate Constant | 1916 | |||||
Mrs Margaret M. Jones | 1925-1930 | |||||
Mr & Mrs Fred Styles | 1935-1936 | |||||
Herbert J. Dooley | 1938-1943 | |||||
Mrs Leititia Mitton & Mrs Louisa Emony | 1943-1947 | |||||
Coffee Palace (Blue Baths Coffee Palace) | c1896 | Mrs Annie Crowther | c1899-1900 | opposite Sanatorium Gates, Hinemaru Street | Unknown | |
Mrs Rose Bushby | 1901-02 | |||||
James G. Peace | 1907 | |||||
Crowther House | see Grand Vue | Soldiers Boarding House, RSA | 1944- | Demolished 1968 | Rotorua Lakes Council | |
Bruce & Gwynedd Logan | c1949-1952 | |||||
Eric & Thelma Cleveland | 1953-1957 | |||||
Maurice P. Kyne | 1968 | |||||
Darlington Villa | c1900 | Mrs Elizabeth Saunders | 1900-1903 | Haupapa Street | Not advertised post 1906 | |
Mrs Ada McFarlane | 1903-1904 | |||||
John Henry McPartland | 1904 | |||||
Mrs Ellen Head | 1905-1906 | |||||
Mrs Mary C. Williams | 1906 | |||||
Denbies | c1911 see The Pines | Mrs Coral M. Williamson | 1930-1955 | 5 Pukuatua Street /also numbered as No. 11 | Demolished 1993 | Police from c1976- |
Archer & Mary Birch | 1947 | |||||
Possible proprietor | Abbott, Kenneth & Joyce | 1966 | ||||
William.S. & Ruth Young | 1968-1972 | |||||
Devonshire House | c1901 | William & Marjery Webber | 1901-1908 and 1915-1922 | 37-39 Eruera Street | Demolished 1960 | Became Woolworths, now individual shops |
Martha E. Reynolds | 1910 | |||||
M. Douglass | 1911-1912 | |||||
Mrs Ellen Bradley | 1913-1920 | |||||
Mrs Emma Andrews | 1923-1927 | |||||
Walter & Elizabeth Dean | 1927-1933 | |||||
Catherine (Clara) Morgan | 1935-1942 | |||||
Neville & Catherine Goldsmith | 1942-1946 | |||||
Mr & Mrs Ashley Guy Roberts | 1946-1956 |