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Notre Dame University Australia’s Fremantle campus is spread across several historical buildings in Fremantle’s heritage-listed west end making it a beautiful campus.
The building, formerly ‘His Majesty Hotel’ was built in the late 1800s on the site of an earlier pub, known as his ‘His Lordship Lager’. Apparently, a structure not as grand as the building today.
The Mail, Fremantle Thursday 26 May 1904 described it thus:
A visitor to Fremantle stepping out of the railway station has his attention at once arrested by that splendid pile of buildings, His Majesty's Hotel, which has arisen, not from the ashes, but upon the site of that quaintly named hostelry, "His Lordship's Larder." The old house was a favourite place of call, but the present imposing building, with its sumptuous internal arrangements, its roomy and handsomely furnished bedrooms, its ornate drawing rooms, and spacious billiard and drawing rooms, all finished and adorned with the utmost skill of the decorative artist, and finished in the best style of the upholsterer, may hold its own with the best hotel in the State of Western Australia. Hotel-keeping in the true sense of that word has become a fine art in Australia, and Messrs Pierce and Murphy, the licensees of His Majesty's Hotel, are experts in the business. – Fremantle Stuff.