Community Contributed
The Levin Hotel
This hotel was located on the southern corner of Oxford Street and Queen Street West.
 | Pictured around 1890: |
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| Levin Hotel is visible on the left of this photo. BUT uncertain of occasion as different copies have different descriptions: either: showing the Welcome Home to men from the Boer War – 1903 or:The service to commemorate the death of Edward VII, 1910. |
 | Levin Hotel in 1918 at the Armistice Day celebrations: |
 | The Levin Hotel in the 1920s.Became the New Levin Hotel. |
The hotel advertised in the newspapers - for example:
| In the New Zealand Truth of 24 April 1909:
| In the Truth 23 August 1913:
5O ROOMS BEAUTI FULLY FURNISHED. REBUILT AND NOW OPEN TO CUSTOMERS. E. C. HIGGINS, Proprietress. | In the New Zealand Truth of 15 July 1922:
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However not all reports in the papers were complimentary - this stinging report was in the Evening Post of 7 December 1906:
The Papers Past website shows that the hotel changed hands quite frequently - these are just some entries for the Levin Hotel:
| 5 March 1896 | Tranfser of ownership of the Levin Hotel from F.L. Garland to R. Buckeridge. |  | |
| 21 March 1905 | The lease and furniture of the Levin Hotel, was sold to Mr. Charles Harrison, late of the Imperial Hotel, New Plymouth. |  | |
| 8 February 1908 | Mr Thomas D Thomas’ interest in the lease, goodwill and furniture of the Levin Hotel, Levin, was sold to Mr Frank Rhodes, late of Bulls. |  | |
| 7 March 1910: | Levin Hotel transfer of license from Frank Rhodes to John Berriman. |  |
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