Ellerker & Kilburn in partnership with William Pitt
Developer
Federal Coffee Palace Company
Other information
Number of rooms
560
Number of suites
370
The Federal Coffee Palace was a large, elaborate French Second Empire style 560 room temperance hotel in the city centre of Melbourne, Victoria, built between 1886 and 1888 at the height of the city's 1880s land boom, and demolished in 1972-73.[2] Located on Collins Street, the premier thoroughfare, on the corner of King Street, near Spencer Street Station (the address is now 555 Collins Street), it is prominent in lists of the buildings Melburnians most regret having lost.[3]
The Federal Coffee Palace was by far the largest and grandest product of the late 19th century temperance movement in the southern hemisphere. The Age wrote that the £150,000 hotel was one of "Australia's most splendid" buildings; in fact, it was "one of the largest and most opulent hotels in the world".[4][5]
With seven main floors and two more in the corner tower, it was the most massive of the rash of large tall buildings built in the central city in the 1880s boom. The height to the top of the corner dome was 165 ft (50 m),[6] its height to roof of 48m exceeded the 43m Fink's Building completed the previous year making it briefly Melbourne and Australia's tallest building until completion of the Australian Building in mid 1890, which measured 53m to the top of its corner spire.
^"THE FEDERAL COFFEE PALACE". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 13, 136. Victoria, Australia. 28 July 1888. p. 12. Retrieved 11 April 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
^History of the Hotel Federal : (formerly the Federal Coffee Palace), [s.n.], 1963, retrieved 11 August 2019
^"Forget me not: Melbourne's glorious buildings". www.heraldsun.com.au. 7 October 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
^Hay, James Grant (2 March 2019). "Lost Melbourne: 10 Landmark Buildings Demolished Forever". Medium. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
^Chapman, Heather; Stillman, Judith (2015). Lost Melbourne. London: Pavilion. ISBN 9781910496749.
^"THE FEDERAL COFFEE PALACE". Argus. 1 June 1888. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
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