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A coffee palace was an often large and elaborate residential hotel that did not serve alcohol, most of which were built in Australia in the late 19th century.
The Federal Coffee Palace, built in Collins Street, Melbourne, in 1888, was the largest and grandest Coffee Palace ever built. It was demolished in 1973.
The Melbourne Coffee Palace, built in Bourke Street in 1881, was one of the earliest truly grand coffee palaces in Australia, featuring ornate interiors such as a grand dining room
Hotel Windsor (formerly the Grand Coffee Palace)
St Kilda Coffee Palace – now backpackers hostel
Hotel Windsor, Melbourne
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The Hotel Windsor is a luxury hotel in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Opened in 1884, the Windsor is notable for being Melbourne's only surviving purpose-built "grand" Victorian era hotel. The Windso
Coffee palace
…Palace, built in 1888 on the corner of Collins and King Street in the western end of Melbourne's CBD was the largest hotel built in Australia, and the Grand Coffee Palace at the other end of the city was the second largest in Melbourne, while the Queens Coffee Palace in Carlton was possibly the third (though it appears…
Hotel Windsor 2025
Grand Hotel, Melbourne (ca. 1879-ca. 1894) State Library Victoria H2008.59/15
Grand Hotel and Spring Street in 1906
Melbourne Windsor Hotel Lobby after the restoration in 2008