Grace Darling Hotel

The Grace Darling is Collingwood's oldest surviving hotel, that still operates as a hotel. The name Grace Darling commemorates the heroine of the wreck of the "Forfarshire" off the north-east coast of England in 1838. It is an excellent example of the early bluestone buildings found in Collingwood. The hotel is also famous as the site of the 1892 meeting that led to the eventual formation of the Collingwood Football Club. It is built of bluestone with Tasmanian sandstone door and window surrounds, no doubt as a result of the first owner Thomas Risby, who was from Tasmania. The 1920s extensions down Peel Street by Sydney Smith, Ogg and Serpell were sympathetically designed to match the original building.

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