Collection SummaryComo Hotel is located on Cremona Road, Como opposite Scylla Bay oval. It was first built in the 1880s and has been in the same location ever since.HistoryThe building known as Como Hotel was completed about 1883 before the coming of the railway to Como. The general consensus is that the building was a social club for the German Consul or the Concordia Club of Sydney. The building itself was built in the style of a European recreational-holiday building once popular at seaside resorts and was built facing Scylla Bay. This bay was filled in during the Depression of the 1930s to form playing fields. It would seem that by 1887 the club had become a hotel. In the period up to World War one the Hotel was associated with the Como Pleasure Grounds. A symbiotic relationship developed between the two. Visitors to the Grounds (built around 1886 by James Murphy) hired boats and rowed down Scylla Bay to the Hotel. Three factors occurring at the same time contributed to the decline of both the Hotel and the Pleasure Grounds. They were the 1914 subdivision of Como, the advent of the motor car and the First World War. Both the subdivision and the motor car meant that other areas were available for entertainment especially the beaches. People who lived at Como went to Cronulla not to the pleasure grounds. Following the war the Hotel seems to have reverted to becoming a local watering hole. A succession of publicans owned the building. In 1977 the Hotel was listed on the National Trust register. The hotel was restored and operated as a pub with a restaurant. On 3 November 1996 the hotel was burnt to the ground. It was later rebuilt in a style similar to the original and still serves the local community to this day.
