Esplanade Hotel, Perth

Its demolition in 1972 was controversial because of the building's beauty and popularity.

[citation needed] Its early history appears in James Sykes Battye's 1912 Cyclopedia of Western Australia.

[2] Various proprietors owned the property over time, including N. W. Harper, who sold it in 1927 to J. Paxton,[3] whose daughter Elsie May Plowman became sole licensee in 1957.

[4] It was located opposite the Perth Bowling Club on the Esplanade Reserve.

[5] The hotel was one of nine in the Perth area to have orders to remove its verandahs in 1962[6] but its owner Elsie May Plowman responded with a successful court action against the Perth City Council regulation.