Broadway Hotel Collection Woolloongabba

The Broadway Hotel in Woolloongabba, Brisbane, is a significant heritage-listed building constructed in 1889–1890 during a period of rapid economic growth in Queensland. Designed by the architectural firm John Hall & Son and built by Wooley & Whyte, it was established as a commercial hotel catering to travellers and locals in a busy transport corridor where major roads converged. 12 The hotel reflects the late nineteenth-century boom, when such establishments played an important social and economic role, providing accommodation, food, and meeting spaces for a growing and mobile population. 1 Added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992, the Broadway Hotel is recognised for its cultural significance as a rare surviving example of large-scale masonry hotels from this era. 1 After operating for over a century, the building closed following a major fire in 2010 and suffered further damage in 2018, leaving it vacant but still valued as an important part of Brisbane’s architectural and social history. 1

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Broadway Hotel Collection Woolloongabba