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The Federal Coffee Palace, erected at the height of the temperance movement was the largest and tallest building in Melbourne when it was built in 1888. The building reverted to a hotel in the 1950s and before being demolished in 1972. The largest temperance hotel in Melbourne is now the Hotel Windsor (formerly the Grand Hotel).

The term Coffee Palace was used in Australia to describe the temperance hotels which were built during the period of the 1880s. They were hotels that did not serve alcohol, built in response to the temperance movement. They were often multi-purpose or mixed use buildings which included a large number of rooms for accommodation as well as ballrooms and other function and leisure facilities.

The construction of buildings for the temperance movement coincided with an economic boom in Australia and the 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.

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)
• Grandview Hotel, Fairfield (1888)
• Auburn Hotel, Auburn (1888)
• St Kilda Coffee Palace, St Kilda
• Mentone Coffee Palace, Mentone (1887) (Later Kilbreda Girl's School)

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	Mentone Coffee Palace - Now Kilbreda Girl's School

Demolished

• Federal Coffee Palace, Melbourne
• Garand Open House, 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

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