Coronation Hotel

The Coronation Hotel at 46-48 Montague Road, South Brisbane (corner Hope Street), is a heritage-listed Victorian-era public house constructed in 1891 to a design by the prolific colonial Brisbane architect Francis Drummond Greville Stanley. The building was originally named the Montague Hotel after its first licensee George Louis Lotz, with the licence approved in November 1891. It was renamed the Coronation Hotel in 1953 to mark the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The hotel was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 30 April 1993 under entry 600298, recognised under three of the criteria of the Queensland Heritage Act: as an intact remnant of an early streetscape of residential scale (now rare and endangered in inner-city South Brisbane), as a demonstration of the principal characteristics of an 1890s Queensland hotel, and through its association with FDG Stanley as a representative example of his commercial work. The building is two storeys of rendered and painted brickwork on a truncated corner site, with a hipped corrugated iron roof, cantilevered iron-lace verandahs to both Montague Road and Hope Street, and the original public bar and corner entry preserved. The hotel operated continuously as a licensed public house from 1891 until 1987, when it was acquired by neighbouring Queensland United Foods Industries for a redevelopment that did not proceed. It served as a backpacker hostel during Expo 88, was unoccupied at the time of heritage listing in 1993, and from 2007 to 2014 housed the live music venue The Joynt. In October 2014 it reopened as The Milk Factory cocktail bar and live music venue. Damaging Brisbane floods in February 1893 swept away portions of the original verandahs and footpath, requiring partial rebuilding within months of original completion.