Buildings with past uses
- Buildings such as churches, hospitals, and hotels that required registration.
See Public places and Government buildings. As registrations were gazetted in local newspapers, searching digitised newspapers on Trove may also be helpful. - Churches and church buildings
Information may also be found among the records of the particular denomination; for example, search ‘Anglican Church of Tasmania’ in an Archives search.
- Hotels and guest houses
- Search the Tasmanian Names Index for information on hotel licensees, inquests into fires, Launceston buildings and demolished hotels.
- View this list of our publications on the history of guest houses and hotels.
- Also see our guide to Hotels & publicans’ licences.
- General businesses/industry
- Lindy Scripps, Industrial heritage of Hobart: [Hobart, Tas. : Hobart City Council], 1997
- Morris, Miranda and Tassell, C. B., Launceston’s industrial heritage: a survey, [Launceston, Tas. : s.n.], 1982-1983
- Miranda Morris-Nunn and C.B. Tassell., Tamar Valley industrial heritage: a survey: [Launceston, Tas.? : M. Morris-Nunn and C.B. Tassell?], 1984
- Wapping History Group, Down Wapping : Hobart’s vanished Wapping and Old Wharf districts: Hobart : Blubber Head Press, 1994.
- Hobart Town map and street directory showing businesses and significant buildings, F. Proeschel, 1860.
- c.1830 – 1890 Business Advertisements Index. This card index accessible through the Hobart Reading Room records business advertisements in the Tasmanian Directories and Almanacs, giving locations.
- Local council records
Some local council records include plans of buildings and facilities for some periods, for example, MCC28 Queenstown Municipal Council and MCC26 Port Cygnet Municipal Council.