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
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
Coffee palace
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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.
Hotel Windsor, Melbourne
…politician and the leader of the temperance movement in Victoria, who famously burnt the hotel's liquor licence in public and operated the hotel as a coffee palace, now renamed the "Grand Coffee Palace". The building was soon more than doubled in size in 1888, by adding the central section and the north wing…
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