Exchange Hotel, Mossman
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Exchange Hotel, 2015
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| Location | 2 Front Street, Mossman, Shire of Douglas, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 16°27′34″S 145°22′27″E / 16.4595°S 145.3741°ECoordinates: 16°27′34″S 145°22′27″E / 16.4595°S 145.3741°E |
| Design period | 1919 - 1930s (interwar period) |
| Built | 1934-1935 |
| Architect | Vibert McKirdy Brown |
| Official name: Daintree Inn/Former Exchange Hotel, Exchange Hotel Mossman | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 9 November 2012 |
| Reference no. | 602803 |
| Significant period | 1935-present |
| Significant components | lounge/recreation room, shop/s, bar |
 Location of Exchange Hotel in Queensland
Location of Exchange Hotel in Queensland
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Exchange Hotel is a heritage-listed hotel at 2 Front Street, Mossman, Shire of Douglas, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Vibert McKirdy Brown and built from 1934 to 1935. It was also known as Daintree Inn. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 9 November 2012.
The Exchange Hotel is the second timber hotel to stand on the prominent site at the corner of Front and Mill streets in Mossman, a sugar town located about 75 km north of Cairns. Built in 1934-35 to replace the first Exchange Hotel (c. 1896), which was badly damaged in a March 1934 cyclone, the second Exchange Hotel was designed to appeal to a tourist clientele. Tourism to the district increased after the opening of the Cook Highway in 1933, with road trips to Mossman and the town of Daintree among the local attractions promoted to visitors to far north Queensland.
Mossman lies inland from Port Douglas, on the flood-plain of the Mossman River between the Great Dividing Range and the coast. Cedar stands on the Mossman River were logged from 1874 and agricultural settlers followed the timber getters from the late 1870s, supplying fodder, maize, rice and tropical fruits to the Palmer River (1873) and Hodgkinson goldfield (1876).
Port Douglas was established in 1877 as a port for the Hodgkinson goldfield and Mossman was founded in the mid-1880s with the subdivision of land, located south of the Mossman River, owned by Daniel Hart and Thomas Wilson. The Exchange Hotel stands on part of Portion 72, selected by Wilson in 1879. Although early selectors attempted mixed agriculture, poor soil and high rainfall meant that the land around Mossman was more suited to sugar cane cultivation.
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