The Macquarie Arms Hotel in Windsor, New South Wales, was built in 1815 by Richard Fitzgerald under the orders of Governor Lachlan Macquarie, making it the oldest purpose-built hotel in Australia. It is one of a half a dozen Australian pubs that can claim an establishment date of 200 years or more. Macquarie Arms opened to the public on July 31, 1815, and traded as a pub until 1835 when it was leased to the 50th West Kent Regiment as an officers’ mess. From 1840 the buildings was used as a priva