The building is to be renovated at a cost of £20m before being reopened as a Radisson hotel in 2024.
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The George Hotel in Huddersfield was earmarked to become the national rugby league museum after the sport was founded at the hotel in 1895The building has been described as one of Huddersfield's "most iconic" due to its historic role and position outside the railway stationA Grade-II listed building in West Yorkshire famed for being the birthplace of rugby league is to become a hotel again after a council agreed renovation plans.
Closing as a hotel in 2013, plans to turn the Kirklees Council-owned site into the national rugby league museum were axed by the authority earlier this year.
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