I'm just not sure. The colours mauve & pink on the second storey and 1970's brown tiles at street level. A plaque explains the site's history. Thomas Staunton had the Gold Diggers Arms here in 1859 which he later updated to The Commercial, a two storey timber hotel.
In 1939, J J King came along and built effectively the structure that remains today. He called it the Hotel Monarch after the British battleship as a result of a competition for possible names.
Michel P Nader remodelled the building into a Hotel-Motel in 1972. I suppose Mr Nader is responsible for the brown tiles. And actually I'm fairly sure I do not like the brown tiles but I suppose there is or will be in the future a Seventies Society that will love them.
I am reluctant to criticise knowledgeable people, but nah, you're wrong. There just ain't gonna be no seventies preservation society, well so far as buildings and architecture go.
ReplyDeleteMark my words there will be such a society. :-)
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