Riverview Hotel, Balmain

The Riverview Hotel was built in 1880. Patrick Kearney was licensee of the Tooheys pub in 1881.{{cite news|date=17 December 1881|title=Publicans and Brewers|page=6|newspaper=The Sydney Daily Telegraph|issue=763|location=New South Wales, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article238312113|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=2 October 2021}} Joseph Bergin took over the licence from Herbert Edwards in August 1887.{{cite news|date=5 August 1887|title=Water Police|page=7|newspaper=Evening News|issue=6306|location=New South Wales, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article108005128|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=2 October 2021}} In December 1899 Bergin was granted permission by the water licensing court to change the hotel's name{{cite news|date=7 December 1899|title=Water Licensing Court|page=4|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|issue=19,262|location=New South Wales, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14216535|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=2 October 2021}} and it became known as Bergin's Hotel. Bergin sold the licence, lease, goodwill and furniture to Tooth and Company in 1908{{cite news|date=27 August 1909|title=The State Courts|page=10|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|issue=9437|location=New South Wales, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article238337974|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=2 October 2021}} and was again known as the Riverview Hotel from 1909.{{cite news|date=12 May 1909|title=Sailing|page=13|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|issue=9345|location=New South Wales, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article238279103|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=2 October 2021}} In 1929 John Reay Palmer transferred his licence to Jack Richards May.{{cite news|date=28 May 1929|title=Licensing Court|page=8|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|issue=28,516|location=New South Wales, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28047783|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=2 October 2021}} A year later the licence was transferred from William Tierney to John Rogers Walter,{{cite news|date=23 September 1930|title=Hotel Transfers|page=6|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|issue=28,929|location=New South Wales, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16716519|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=2 October 2021}} while in 1936 Charles E. Davis took over from George Stanley Bettley as licensee.{{cite news|date=16 April 1936|title=Licences Transferred|page=7|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|issue=30,666|location=New South Wales, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17322801|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=2 October 2021}} David Joseph Cloughessy was proprietor in 1938.{{cite news|date=11 December 1938|title=Bitten by Dog|page=29|newspaper=Truth|issue=2553|location=New South Wales, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article169097727|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=2 October 2021}}

In late 2008, after renovation, it reopened.{{cite book |author1=Davidson, B |author2=Hamey, K |author3=Nicholls, D |title=Called To The Bar - 150 Years of pubs in Balmain & Rozelle |publisher=The Balmain Association |year=1991 |isbn=0-9599502-6-5}}

The Riverview Hotel is listed on the Inner West Council local government heritage register. The corner building was built in the Arts and Crafts style with distinctive brick work details. It was remodelled again {{circa|1909}}.{{cite NSW SHR|1940135|Riverview Hotel|date=|accessdate=1 October 2021}}

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