COFFEE PALACE

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The term 'Coffee Palace' was used for 1880s hotels that did not serve alcohol as part of the Temperance movement in Australia.
The construction of buildings for the temperance movement coincided with an economic boom in Australia and use of richly ornamental High Victorian architecture.
Subsequently, many such hotels were given prestigious names such as "Grand" or "Royal" and were designed in the fashionable Free Classical or Second Empire styles.
The movement reached its height in Victoria and particularly Melbourne.
Catering for families, the Coffee Palaces were most popular in the coastal seaside resorts and for inner city locations popular with interstate and overseas visitors.
Many have been either converted into hotels or demolished, however many fine examples still survive.

Contents

List of former Coffee Palaces in Australia

Victoria

Demolished

See also

List of former Coffee Palaces in Australia

Victoria

★ Palace, Queenscliff (1879)

★ Baillieu, Queenscliff (1881) (later renamed Ozone Hotel)

★ Vue Grande, Queenscliff (1883)

★ Queenscliff Hotel

★ Grand Coffee Palace, Melbourne (1883) (later named Windsor)

★ Reid's Coffee Palace, Ballarat (1886)

★ The Biltmore, Albert Park (1887)

★ The George, St Kilda (1887)

★ Victoria Hotel, Albert Park (1888)

★ Grandview Hotel, Fairfield (1888)

★ Auburn Hotel, Auburn (1888)

★ St Kilda Coffee Palace, St Kilda

★ Seaview Coffee Palace, Queenscliff

★ Mentone Coffee Palace, Mentone (1887) (Later Kilbreda Girl's School)

Demolished

★ Federal Coffee Palace, Melbourne

★ Melbourne Coffee Palace, Melbourne

★ Victoria Coffee Palace, Melbourne

★ Parer's Crystal Cafe, Melbourne

★ Burke & Wills Coffee Palace, Melbourne

★ Queen's Coffee Palace, Carlton

★ Hawthorn Coffee Palace, Hawthorn

★ Collingwood Coffee Palace, Collingwood

★ Sandringham House, Sandringham

See also

★ Temperance movement

★ Melbourne

★ Queenscliff