Star & Garter Hotel, 22-24 Robe Street (Extant)

First built in 1854 as Pitt's Hotel, this was one of the largest hotels in St Kilda, comprising thirty rooms. 

Later it was known as Oakley’s Family Hotel, International, Mager’s Family Hotel, and Morgan’s Family Hotel, and finally the Star & Garter.

William Killick, who became known to the community as ‘Billy the Bus Boy’ (see Rees’ Hotel) after an early stint driving Mooney’s horse-drawn omnibus, became the well-known and respected publican of the Star and Garter. Architect Lloyd Tayler called for tenders for repairs and drainage in 1859. 

In 1885 architect, Sydney W Smith designed three-storey brick additions in the form of a terrace house on the north side, while Richard Speight jnr designed a billiard room in 1888. 

Plans, prepared by J. & V. Gillespie, survive for the conversion to apartments in c1920 and show the ground floor as two apartments, with one large apartment occupying each of the upper floors, served by a central staircase. The original dormer windows of the attic floor were replaced by a long dormer to both front and rear facades. The roof was reclad in terra-cotta tiles.  The late Victorian door to the terrace is largely intact, and the arched entry to the pub is too, while the top floor flat has windows with very fine glazing bars typical of the 1850s. The interiors were greatly altered, though some Victorian fireplaces appear to remain.

Renamed Windsor Court, it remains as rebuilt in 1920.

The building is important as a survivor from early times and must have been a landmark in the ninteenth century as it still is today.