The term Coffee Palace was primarily used in Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 to describe the temperance hotels which were built during the period of the 1880s although there are references to the term also being used, to a lesser extent, in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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. They were hotels that did not serve alcohol, built in response to the temperance movement

Temperance movement

A temperance movement is a social movement urging reduced use of alcoholic beverages. Temperance movements may criticize excessive alcohol use, promote complete abstinence , or pressure the government to enact anti-alcohol legislation or complete prohibition of alcohol.-Temperance movement by...

 and, in particular, the influence of the Independent Order of Rechabites

Independent Order of Rechabites

The Independent Order of Rechabites was a Friendly Society founded in England in 1835 as part of the temperance movement to promote total abstinence from alcoholic beverages. Always well connected in upper society and involved in financial matters, it gradually transformed into a financial...

 in Australia. James Munro

James Munro (Australian politician)

James Munro , Australian colonial politician, was the 15th Premier of Victoria.-Early life:James Munro was born in Armadale, Sutherland, Scotland, to Donald Munro and his wife, Georgina. James Munro's grandparents were an Alexander Munro of the family of Foulis, Ross-shire and Barbara Mackay, a...

 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 construction of buildings for the temperance movement coincided with an economic boom in Australia and the use of richly ornamental High Victorian architecture

Victorian architecture

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.

Subsequently, many such hotels were given prestigious names such as "Grand" or "Royal" and were designed in the fashionable Free Classical

Classical architecture

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 or Second Empire styles.

The movement reached its height in Victoria and particularly Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

.

Catering for families, the Coffee Palaces were most popular in the coastal seaside resort

Seaside resort

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s and for inner city

Inner city

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 locations popular with interstate and overseas visitors.

Ironically as the temperance movement's influence waned, many hotels applied for liquor licences. Many were either converted into hotels or demolished; however, some fine examples still survive.

Melbourne

• Grand Coffee Palace, Melbourne
  Melbourne
  Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
  
   (1883) (later named Windsor)
• Gladstone House Coffee Palace, North Melbourne
  North Melbourne, Victoria
  North Melbourne is a large inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2 km north-west from Melbourne's central business district. It is bounded by the CityLink freeway to the west, Victoria Street to the south, O'Connell and Peel Streets to the east and Flemington Road to the north. Its...
  
  
• The Biltmore, Albert Park
  Albert Park, Victoria
  Albert Park is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 km south from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Port Phillip. At the 2006 Census, Albert Park had a population of 5827....
  
   (1887)
• The George, St Kilda
  St Kilda, Victoria
  St Kilda is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km south from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Port Phillip...
  
   (1887)
• Grandview Hotel, Fairfield
  Fairfield, Victoria
  Fairfield is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area are the Cities of Darebin and Yarra...
  
   (1888)
• Auburn Hotel, Auburn
  Auburn, Victoria
  Auburn is an unbounded neighbourhood of the suburb of Hawthorn, Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria. Its postcode is 3123.It is in the local government areas of the City of Boroondara....
  
   (1888)
• St Kilda Coffee Palace, St Kilda
  St Kilda, Victoria
  St Kilda is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km south from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Port Phillip...
  
  
• Mentone Coffee Palace, Mentone
  Mentone, Victoria
  Mentone is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 21 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Kingston...
  
   (1887) (Later Kilbreda Girl's School)

Regional

• Reid's Coffee Palace, Ballarat (1886)
• Mildura Coffee Palace, Mildura, Victoria
  Mildura, Victoria
  Mildura is a regional city in northwestern Victoria, Australia and seat of the Rural City of Mildura local government area. It is located in the Sunraysia region, and is on the banks of the Murray River. The current population is estimated at just over 30,000.Mildura is a major agricultural centre...
  
  
• Palace, Queenscliff
  Queenscliff, Victoria
  Queenscliff is a small town on the Bellarine Peninsula in southern Victoria, Australia, south of Swan Bay at the entrance to Port Phillip. It is the administrative centre for the Borough of Queenscliffe...
  
   (1879)
• Baillieu, Queenscliff
  Queenscliff, Victoria
  Queenscliff is a small town on the Bellarine Peninsula in southern Victoria, Australia, south of Swan Bay at the entrance to Port Phillip. It is the administrative centre for the Borough of Queenscliffe...
  
   (1881) (later renamed Ozone Hotel)
• Vue Grande, Queenscliff
  Queenscliff, Victoria
  Queenscliff is a small town on the Bellarine Peninsula in southern Victoria, Australia, south of Swan Bay at the entrance to Port Phillip. It is the administrative centre for the Borough of Queenscliffe...
  
   (1883)
• Queenscliff Hotel

Destroyed

• Federal Coffee Palace, Melbourne
  Melbourne
  Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
  
   (demolished 1972)
• Garand Open House, Melbourne
  Melbourne
  Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
  
  
• Victoria Coffee Palace, Melbourne
  Melbourne
  Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
  
  
• Parer's Crystal Cafe, Melbourne
  Melbourne
  Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
  
  
• Burke & Wills Coffee Palace, Melbourne
  Melbourne
  Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
  
  
• Fitzroy Coffee Palace, Smith Street, Fitzroy
  Fitzroy, Victoria
  Fitzroy is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Yarra. Its borders are Alexandra Parade , Victoria Parade , Smith Street and Nicholson Street. Fitzroy is Melbourne's...
  
   - Constructed as a four storey building. The building has since been demolished, however two levels of the facade remain atop a Safeway supermarket.
• Queen's Coffee Palace, Carlton
  Carlton, Victoria
  Carlton is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2 km north from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Melbourne...
  
   (demolished ~1969)
• Hawthorn Coffee Palace, Hawthorn
  Hawthorn, Victoria
  Hawthorn is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Boroondara...
  
  
• Collingwood Coffee Palace, Collingwood
  Collingwood, Victoria
  Collingwood is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Yarra...
  
  
• Moris's (West Melbourne) Coffee Palace, West Melbourne
  West Melbourne, Victoria
  West Melbourne is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 km north-west from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Melbourne...
  
  
• Sandringham House, Sandringham
  Sandringham, Victoria
  Sandringham is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 16 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Bayside. At the 2006 Census, Sandringham had a population of 8693.-History:...
  
  
• Ozone Coffee Palace, Warrnambool
  Warrnambool, Victoria
  -Cityscape:The original City of Warrnambool was a 4x8 grid, with boundaries of Lava Street , Japan Street , Merri Street and Henna Street . In the nineteenth century, it was intended that Fairy Street – with its proximity to the Warrnambool Railway Station – would be the main street of...
  
  
• James' Coffee Palace, Williamstown
  Williamstown, Victoria
  Williamstown is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 8 km south-west from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Hobsons Bay. At the 2006 Census, Williamstown had a population of 12,733....
  
  
• Sandhurst Coffee Palace, Bendigo
• Central Coffee Palace, Bendigo

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). Brisbane Street, Launceston, Tasmania
  Launceston, Tasmania
  Launceston is a city in the north of the state of Tasmania, Australia at the junction of the North Esk and South Esk rivers where they become the Tamar River. Launceston is the second largest city in Tasmania after the state capital Hobart...
  
   (demolished 1976)

South Australia

• Grayson's Coffee Palace, Adelaide, South Australia (demolished 1918)
• Coffee Palace, Hindley Street, Adelaide, South Australia (known as Grant's 1908-1919; Wests 1919-)

New South Wales

• Sydney Coffee Palace, Sydney, New South Wales (built 1913-1914) (demolished ?)
• Sydney Coffee Palace, Woolloomooloo, New South Wales
  Woolloomooloo, New South Wales
  Woolloomooloo is a harbourside, inner-city eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Woolloomooloo is located 1.5 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Sydney. The suburb is located in a low-lying, former...
  
  
• Grand Central Coffee Palace (1880), Sydney
• North Queensland Coffee Palace, George Street, Sydney
• Canberra Coffee Palace, Manly, New South Wales
  Manly, New South Wales
  Manly is a suburb of northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Manly is located 17 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre of the local government area of Manly Council, in the Northern Beaches region.-History:Manly was named...
  
   (built 1912, demolished 1955)
• Dorrigo Coffee Palace, [Hickory St, Dorrigo, New South Wales] (burnt down sometime after 1923)

Queensland

• People's Palace, Brisbane
  People's Palace, Brisbane
  The People's Palace was a temperance hotel in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is located at 308 Edward Street on the southern corner with Ann Street, diagonally opposite to Brisbane's Central Railway Station...
  
   (built 1910-11, still standing 2010)
• Royal George, Nambour, Queensland
  Nambour, Queensland
  The area now known as Nambour, was first settled in 1870. The town was then called Petrie's Creek. In 1890 the Maroochy Divisional Board was established...
  
   (built 1911, licenced in 1912 and destroyed by fire on 15 February 1961)

Western Australia

• 1904 Wise Directory
  Western Australia Post Office Directory
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    has 20 coffee palaces listed in Perth and other locations in W.A>

United Kingdom

• Douglas Coffee Palace, Douglas, Isle of Man
  Douglas, Isle of Man
  right|thumb|250px|Douglas Promenade, which runs nearly the entire length of beachfront in Douglasright|thumb|250px|Sea terminal in DouglasDouglas is the capital and largest town of the Isle of Man, with a population of 26,218 people . It is located at the mouth of the River Douglas, and a sweeping...
  
   (demolished 1930)
• Newport Street Coffee Palace, Swindon
  Swindon
  Swindon is a large town within the borough of Swindon and ceremonial county of Wiltshire, in South West England. It is midway between Bristol, west and Reading, east. London is east...
  
  
• Ossington Coffee Palace, Newark-on-Trent
  Newark-on-Trent
  Newark-on-Trent is a market town in Nottinghamshire in the East Midlands region of England. It stands on the River Trent, the A1 , and the East Coast Main Line railway. The origins of the town are possibly Roman as it lies on an important Roman road, the Fosse Way...
  
  

External links

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