"MEMORANDA". The Telegraph, St Kilda, Prahran and South Yarra Guardian. No. 831. Victoria, Australia. 12 January 1878. p. 3. Retrieved 16 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia., ...The handsome new hotel lately erected on the St. Kilda Esplanade, and called the Esplanade Hotel, was formally opened on Monday. It is erected on the site of the old Criterion Hotel...