Melbourne Coffee Palace: 89 Bourke Street, MELBOURNE
| Building ProfileName : Melbourne Coffee Palace
LocationAddress: 89 Bourke Street
City: MELBOURNE
Postcode: 3000
Construction DetailsBuilt: 1879 - 1880
Original use: Club/Hotel/Coffee Palace
Current use: Not Used or Not Applicable
number of floors : 5Built in the Victorian period in the Mannerist style
Notable featuresA prize winnig design, and One of William Pitts earliest the Melbourne coffee palace was the first temperance hotel in the city. The coffee palace was a rare example of a classical Mannerist design by William Pitt. The building was superceeded during the land-boom in 1888, when the Federal Coffee Palace was built, also designed by Pitt, but in a far more opulent high-Victorian manner.
The 5 storey building consisted of a protruding central bay which culminated in a pediment. A trademark of Pitts later designs, individual storeys were treated uniquely.
2 large statues originally crowned the outer corners of the cornice, but were later removed. HistoryArchitect: William Pitt
This building has been destroyed (1960~)
The Melbourne Coffee Palace was destroyed in the 1960s ?
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