AUSTRALIANA
“Originally known as the Victoria Coffee Palace, The Victoria Hotel in Collins Street was established in 1880 as a sober alternative to the rowdy hotels with onsite pubs. It was the first coffee palace to open in Melbourne and the last to bow to selling liquor”.
First Edition.
- xv, 144 p. : ill., facsims., map, plans, ports. ; 26 cm.
- #260624
- Victoria Hotel (Melbourne, Vic.) — History
- Hotels — Victoria — Melbourne — History