Birdsville Hotel
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Birdsville Hotel, 2007
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| Location | Burt Street, Birdsville, Shire of Diamantina, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 25°53′55″S 139°21′05″E / 25.8985°S 139.3515°ECoordinates: 25°53′55″S 139°21′05″E / 25.8985°S 139.3515°E |
| Design period | 1870s - 1890s (late 19th century) |
| Built | c. 1884 |
| Official name: Birdsville Hotel | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600461 |
| Significant period | 1880s (fabric) c. 1884-ongoing (historical use) |
 Location of Birdsville Hotel in Queensland
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Birdsville Hotel is a heritage-listed hotel at Burt Street, Birdsville, Shire of Diamantina, Queensland, Australia. It was built c. 1884. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
This singled-storeyed sandstone building was erected c. 1884 as the Birdsville Hotel, Birdsville, for publican William Blair. Although European explorers had passed through the Diamantina district in the 1840s and early 1860s, pastoralists did not occupy this semi-arid region until the mid-1870s. Annandale, Pandie Pandie, Glengyle and Roseberth were taken up in 1876; Sandringham, Cacoory and Haddon Downs in 1877; and Dubbo Downs in 1878. Monkira, Mt Leonard, Cluny and Coorabulka were other early holdings.
In the early 1880s the towns of Birdsville and Bedourie were established to service the newly taken up pastoral holdings of the Diamantina. Reputedly, a merchant named Matthew Flynn, who carried stores for the stations, built a rough depot in the late 1870s at the site of the present town of Birdsville, then known as the Diamantina Crossing, on the from Boulia south to Adelaide. By mid-1885, when the township of Birdsville was officially surveyed, a number of buildings had been erected at the Diamantina Crossing, including a police lock-up (1883), Groth's Royal Hotel (c. 1883), Blair's Birdsville Hotel (c. 1883), Curtain's Tattersalls Hotel, and at least 3 stores and 1 shop. Diamantina Shire was established in 1883, and its headquarters were at Birdsville until moved to Bedourie in 1953.
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