Coffee palace

In Australia, a coffee palace was a temperance hotel built during 1880s. They were hotels that did not serve alcohol, built in response to the temperance movement and, in particular, the influence of the Independent Order of Rechabites in Australia. James Munro was a particularly vocal member of this movement. Coffee Palaces 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 beginnings of the movement were in 1879, with the first coffee palace companies founded in the cities of Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide. The movement in particular flourished in Melbourne in the 1880s when a land boom that followed the Victorian gold rush created an environment in which it was the construction of lavish buildings and richly ornamental high Victorian architecture, often designed in the fashionable Free Classical or Second Empire styles to attract patrons. Many of the larger establishments were bestowed prestigious names such as "Grand" or "Royal" in order to appeal to the wealthier classes. Coffee palaces were popular in the coastal seaside resorts and for inner city locations attracting catering for families as well as interstate and overseas visitors. Ironically as the temperance movement's influence waned, many of these coffee palaces applied for liquor licences. Many have since been either converted into hotels or demolished; however, some significant examples still survive. Australia-- Victoria- Melbourne: -Collingwood Coffee Palace. 232 Smith Street, Collingwood (now in Fitzroy) (1879 – constructed as a four-storey building) (demolished - though two levels of the facade remain atop a Woolworths supermarket) -Brunswick Coffee Palace, Brunswick (1879) -The Coffee Palace. Flinders Street. (1880) -Victoria Coffee Palace. Collins Street East (1880 - began as the Victoria Club) (demolished) -Melbourne Coffee Palace. Bourke Street. (1881) -Grand Coffee Palace (1883) (now renamed the Hotel Windsor) -Gladstone House Coffee Palace, North Melbourne -The Biltmore, Albert Park (1887) -Victoria, Albert Park -The George, St Kilda (1887) -Mentone Coffee Palace, Mentone (1887) (now Kilbreda College) -Auburn Hotel, Auburn (1888) -St Kilda Coffee Palace, St Kilda -Prince of Wales Coffee Palace -Federal Coffee Palace. Corner of Collins and King Streets, Melbourne (1888) (demolished 1972) -Garand Open House, Melbourne (demolished) -Parer's Crystal Cafe. 103 Bourke Street, Melbourne (demolished) -Burke & Wills Coffee Palace. Corner of Collins and Russell Streets, Melbourne (demolished) -Queen's Coffee Palace. 1 Rathdowne Street, Carlton (demolished 1970) -Hawthorn Coffee Palace, Hawthorn (demolished) -Moris's (West Melbourne) Coffee Palace, West Melbourne (demolished) -Sandringham House, Sandringham (demolished) -James' Coffee Palace, Williamstown (demolished) -Prahran Coffee Palace, Prahran, Victoria Ballarat: -Reid's Coffee Palace (1886) -Victoria Coffee Palace. Cnr Lydiard and Doveton Crescent. Soldiers Hill. (demolished) Bendigo- -Sandhurst Coffee Palace (demolished) -Central Coffee Palace (demolished) Queenscliff- -Palace (1879) -Baillieu (1881) (later renamed Ozone Hotel) -Vue Grande (1883) -Queenscliff Hotel (1887) Other: -Mildura Coffee Palace, Mildura, Victoria -Ozone Coffee Palace, Warrnambool -Marnoo Coffee Palace, Marnoo, Victoria -Wimmera Coffee Palace, Horsham, Victoria Tasmania: -Imperial (Hobart) Coffee Palace, Hobart, Tasmania (built in two sections, firstly in the 1880s then extended in 1910. Cast iron verandah, balcony and mansard roof were removed during the 1950s and the 1910 extension was demolished in the 1960s) -Tasmanian Coffee Palace, Hobart, Tasmania, 89 Macquarie St (established in Ingle Hall which was built c1814). Also known as Norman's Coffee Palace, the Orient, and Anderson's. Now home to the Mercury Print Museum. -Federal (Sutton's) Coffee Palace (later Metropole), 67 Brisbane Street, Launceston, Tasmania (demolished 1976) -Shield's Temperance Hotel (Shield's Coffee Palace), 77 Esplanade, Launceston, Tasmania. Ironically established in the former Burten Brewery in 1859, the building was eventually reduced in size as the Monds Flour Mills expanded in the early 20th century with the building finally being demolished in the 1950s. -Commonwealth Coffee Palace, 23-29 Tamar Street, Launceston, Tasmania (demolished 1960s) South Australia: --Grand Coffee Palace, Hindley Street, Adelaide, built 1890. Grayson's Coffee Palace, Adelaide (demolished 1918) -Coffee Palace, 110 Hindley Street, Adelaide, built 1903. Known as Grant's 1908-1919 and West's 1919-. Identified by architects as one of the most significant 20th century buildings in South Australia. -Port Pioneer Coffee Palace. Hindley Street, Adelaide. (1879) New South Wales: -Sydney Coffee Palace, Sydney, New South Wales (founded 1879, rebuilt 1913-1914) (demolished ?) -Sydney Coffee Palace, Woolloomooloo, New South Wales -Grand Central Coffee Palace (1880), Sydney -North Queensland Coffee Palace, George Street, Sydney -Canberra Coffee Palace, Manly, New South Wales (built 1912, demolished 1955) -Dorrigo Coffee Palace, Hickory St, Dorrigo, New South Wales (burnt down sometime after 1923) -Bee Hive Coffee Palace, Sydney NSW -Great Western Coffee Palace, Sydney NSW -Town Hall Coffee Palace, Sydney NSW -Johnsons Temperance Coffee Palace. York Street, Sydney. (built 1879 -Rose and Crown Coffee Palace. Knightsbridge, Sydney. -Alpine Heritage Motel (built as: Goulburn Coffee Palace) Goulburn, New South Wales Queensland: -People's Palace, Brisbane (built 1910-11, in 2015 operating as a backpackers' hotel) -Canberra Hotel, Brisbane (built 1929, sold 1985 and later demolished) -Royal George, Nambour, Queensland (built 1911, licensed in 1912 and destroyed by fire on 15 February 1961) -Hill's Coffee Palace Dalby, Queensland Western Australia: -Horseshoe Coffee Palace, Perth WA -Burnett's Coffee Palace and Temperance Hotel (Perth's first 'Coffee Palace', although the building, constructed c1834, was previously the (licensed) Devonshire Arms, prior to that The Mason's Arms), corner Hay and Barrack Streets, diagonally opposite Town Hall, Perth WA -Ellis's Grand Central Coffee Palace (still standing as the Grand Central Hotel), Wellington St, Perth WA -Continental Coffee Palace (Wellington St, Perth WA -Rechabite Coffee Palace, Wellington St, Perth WA (Opposite Central Railway Station) -Royal Coffee Palace, 165-167 Murray St, Perth WA -Musson's (Sydney) Coffee Palace (Hotel), Murray St, Perth WA -Cornwall Coffee Palace (previously the Yankee Coffee Palace), 239 Murray St (between William and Barrack Sts), Perh WA -Prince of Wales Coffee Palace, Murray St, Perth WA -(Shafto's) Victoria Coffee Palace, Wellington St, Perth WA -Wilson's Coffee Palace, King St, Perth WA -Paris Coffee Palace, corner of James and Pier Sts, Northbridge WA -Worsleys Coffee Palace, Katanning, Perth WA -Metropolitan Coffee Palace, Stirling St, Northbridge WA -Britannia Coffee Palace, 323 William St, Northbridge WA -Perth Coffee Palace, William St, Northbridge WA -1904 Wise Directory has 20 coffee palaces listed in Perth and other locations in W.A> United Kingdom: -Douglas Coffee Palace, Douglas, Isle of Man (demolished 1930) -Newport Street Coffee Palace, Swindon -Ossington Coffee Palace, Newark-on-Trent