The Yandina Australian Hotel

Australian Hotel, Stevens Street, Yandina, 1932. Source: Picture Sunshine Coast, Sunshine Coast Libraries.

Yandina had been without a pub for five years when John Gustave Sommer built the hotel in 1888-1889 on his land at the intersection of Fleming and Farrell Streets (adjacent to the Old Gympie Road) at Yandina. 

Following the completion of the North Coast Railway line to Yandina in 1891, the hotel was relocated to its present site opposite the Railway Station in Stevens Street.

It was extended in the 1930s and later renamed the Yandina Hotel. While the hotel was being moved, you could still get a beer and upstairs, incredibly, Mrs Sommer gave birth to a son.