Coffee Palace

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Grand Coffee Palace - now the Windsor Hotel
Grand Coffee Palace - now the Windsor Hotel

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 a 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

[edit] List of former Coffee Palaces in Australia

[edit] Victoria

Hotel Windsor (formerly Grand Coffee Palace) - now 5 star hotel

The Biltmore, Albert Park - now private apartments

Victoria Hotel - now private apartments

The George, St Kilda - now private apartments

Auburn Hotel

Grandview Hotel, Fairfield

St Kilda Coffee Palace - now backpackers hostel

Reid's Coffee Palace, Ballarat

Ozone, Queenscliff

[edit] Demolished

[edit] See Also

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