WAKEFIELD HOTEL
| The story of the Wakefield Hotel begins with the Wheelwrights Arms Hotel on Roper Street, which was built in 1851 to serve the local wheelwrights working in the area. By 1859, Johann Langvogt (also spelt Landvoigt) had become the publican. Finding the original premises too small for his growing business, he began constructing a larger hotel just around the corner on Wakefield Street. The new hotel was completed in 1864, and Johann moved his operations there. He sold the Wheelwrights Arms to Robert Cottrell and continued as the publican of the new Wakefield Hotel for nearly 40 years, before selling it in 1901. The hotel sustained significant damage in a storm in 1916, with the roof being torn off. It was later expanded in 1927 and underwent a major Art Deco-style renovation in 1938. Throughout the 20th century, the Wakefield remained a popular and well-loved establishment. In 2005, under new ownership, the hotel was briefly renamed the Moon Under Water Hotel, but the historic Wakefield name was restored in 2008.  |
 
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| WAKEFIELD HOTEL | 1864 | 2005 |
| MOON UNDER WATER HOTEL | 2005 | 2008 |
| WAKEFIELD HOTEL | 2008 | Current |
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The Wakefield Hotel is the centre building 1870
State Library [B 16004/4]
1925
State Library [B 2455]
1927
State Library [B 4165]
1939
State Library [B 8182]
Hotel in 2025
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| Publican Name | Start Date | Finish Date | Hotel |
| Johann Philipp LANDVOIGT | 1864 | 1876 | Wakefield Hotel |
| Michael John LEONARD | 1876 | 1879 | Wakefield Hotel |
| Johann Philipp LANDVOIGT | 1879 | 1901 | Wakefield Hotel |
| Frederick CLARKE | 1901 | 1902 | Wakefield Hotel |
| August Friedrich SCHROEDER | 1902 | 1915 | Wakefield Hotel |
| Franz CC GOETJENS | 1915 | 1917 | Wakefield Hotel |
| Mrs Annie Marion CHAPPLE | 1917 | 1920 | Wakefield Hotel |
| Gilbert N GOLDSWORTHY | 1920 | 1921 | Wakefield Hotel |
| Mrs Charlotte D LEWIS | 1921 | 1922 | Wakefield Hotel |
| Joseph LAIRD | 1922 | 1923 | Wakefield Hotel |
| Nasoor FAIG | 1923 | 1925 | Wakefield Hotel |
| Walter Visic BACHE | 1925 | 1926 | Wakefield Hotel |
| Maurice G HENDERSON | 1926 | 1927 | Wakefield Hotel |
| & Vincent KENNY | 1926 | 1927 | Wakefield Hotel |
| Vincent KENNY | 1927 | 1929 | Wakefield Hotel |
| Christopher FORDE | 1929 | 1930 | Wakefield Hotel |
| H G MORRIS | 1930 | 1930 | Wakefield Hotel |
| Leonard FREEMAN | 1930 | 1931 | Wakefield Hotel |
| H G MORRIS | 1931 | 1931 | Wakefield Hotel |
| John Kevin WALSH | 1931 | 1933 | Wakefield Hotel |
| P P R SEXTON | 1933 | 1934 | Wakefield Hotel |
| Albert Aloysius LEAY | 1934 | 1940 | Wakefield Hotel |
| Charles Kevin LEAHY | 1940 | 1940 | Wakefield Hotel |
| John Stanley Hollis PITCHER | 1940 | 1946 | Wakefield Hotel |
| Colin George DANDY | 1946 | 1947 | Wakefield Hotel |
| John Stanley Hollis PITCHER | 1947 | 1948 | Wakefield Hotel |
| Albert Aloysius LEAY | 1948 | 1950 | Wakefield Hotel |