Authors: Dr Sue Rosen & Liz Gorman
Client: Thomas Hotels
The team has enjoyed preparing Heritage Impact Statements for our client Thomas Hotels this year, who are undertaking minor remodelling and accessibility adjustments on the premises.
The site on which Cantebury Hotel now stands was aquired by Tooth & Co. in February 1940, who recognised the potential of its central location to the railway station, village CBD and racecourse.
Canterbury Hotel was designed by arcitect Cyril Ruwald, a Tooth & Co. Hotel 'regular', having produced many notable hotels for them from the 1920's-1940's. Ruwald's streamlined, Interwar Functionalist Style design included the distinctive round colonnade, parapeted roofline, rooftop lantern and decorative white horses as a reference to the nearby racecourse.
The hotel exemplifies a Sydney-wide pattern of hotels owned or tied to Tooth & Co. Eventually Tooth & Co. were aquired by Carlton United Breweries Ltd. in 1983.