It was built at the top of Thorntons Gap on Herveys Range to accommodate travellers moving down to the plains at Townsville and up to the new gold fields and pastoral leases west and north of Charters Towers.

After acquiring the property in 1875 William Rolfe erected another building of sawn timber while retaining the original structure.

[1] After the licence was surrendered sometime after 1908 the building was owned by the Moodie family who used it as refreshment rooms and a dance hall.

[1] The Eureka Hotel is a colonial period structure built of ironbark with a gabled roof of modern corrugated iron over the central core of three rooms.

The building stands in well tended modern gardens of trees, shrubs and plants popular in the early part of this century.