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 influencer 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.