[1] The Post Office Hotel was built in 1889, for Messrs Hanley and Williams of Maryborough to a design of Victor Emmanuel Carandini, a Brisbane architect.

Aldridge retained the site until 1878 when it was sold to Mr John O'Brien, and Messrs Hanley and Williams acquired the property by 1889.

[1] On August 7, 1889, the tender of Mr Murray, a local builder, was accepted to construct a new two storeyed building to the designs of Victor Emmanuel Carandini, an architect from Brisbane.

[1] The Post Office Hotel is a two storeyed brick building, with cantilevered first floor verandah, located prominently on the corner of Wharf and Bazaar Streets, Maryborough.

Several rendered finials are placed along the parapet, with a slightly larger feature one on each elevation emphasising the principal entrance from that side.

[1] Openings to the ground floor have moulded plaster surrounds, and retain some early joinery and leadlight glazing, although there are some replacement louvres.

[1] Internally, the ground floor comprises the public bar, shops, and entrance and stair halls off which the dining room is accessed.

The first floor comprises many timber framed accommodation rooms clad with tongue and groove boarding and accessed from a central corridor featuring plaster arches and skylights at various intervals.

The building displays the principal characteristics of a Queensland country town hotel, in its corner situation, verandah arrangement and internal planning.