History
Islington is a curated hotel. Corridors and rooms are filled
with art and antiques, an ancient, modern and eclectic mix
of 30 years of traveling around the world, added together
with the historic nature of Islington itself and the owner's
family history in Tasmania.
Islington, built in Regency style in 1847, was one of the
first houses built in the dress circle of Hobart. The house
was not called Islington until about 1899. Davey Street to
which the property fronts was formerly known as "Holebrook
Place" - an exclusive address in the class conscious
Hobart town of the period. Interestingly, it was built by
a hotel owner and over the years has been leased to a number
of very prominent and dignified tenants. Then, as now, it
has one of the most prime views of Mt Wellington that Hobart
can offer.
Within the library is a collection from the works of Louisa
Anne Meredith, an early settler who wrote of the colony
and drew the flora and fauna and is an ancestor of the present
owner
and a prime infiuencer on the house and its contents.
With its acre of garden, its history, art and luxury, Islington
is fittingly continuing in the direction its original owner,
Sarah Hodgson, intended.
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