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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Coffee Palace

Coffee Palace (Dunedin Coffee Palace Company), Moray Place, Dunedin. P.O. Box, 196. Bankers: Bank of Australasia. This splendid private hotel was built by Mr. R. Hudson, J.P., in 1880. The building is a handsome four storey brick structure. On the ground floor on one side of the main entrance is the public luncheon-room, where luncheon is served daily from 12 noon to 2 p.m; next to this is a large sample-room; then the kitchen and other offices situated at the rear of the premises. A splendid dining-room with seating capacity for seventy guests, and connected with the kitchen by a lift, is situated on the first floor, with a comfortable smoking-room and a handsomely furnished drawing-room en suite, together with two very large bedrooms and lavatories on the same floor. The second floor has a cosy private parlour, and eighteen good bedrooms, besides bath-room with hot and cold water laid on. In all there are twenty-four bedrooms, page 317 rooms, four of which contain double beds. The attics are assigned to the accommodation of the servants. The Coffee Palace is well known as a comfortable house for visitors,
Coffee Palace.

Coffee Palace.

and is very popular with the local and travelling public.