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Victorian buildings were “really on the nose” and the Federal's creaky floorboards and lack of ensuites were an "extreme embarrassment" in a city desperate for progress in the late 1960s and early 1970s. However it was mostly due to its prominent association with the speculative land boom. Elaborate buildings including the Federal were painted in a negative light at the time as they were constructed speculatively with excessively large amounts of borrowed funds many of which were never paid back. In particular, the association with James Munro carried with it strong links to the city's total economic collapse and corruption prior to the
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Despite the lack of a steel frame, and partly due to tall ceilings, its height to roof was also among the highest in the world for a habitable building in 1888. Contemporary skyscrapers in New York and Chicago were not much taller. The Federal was just 5 metres short of New York's tallest hotel, the
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in Bourke Street was completed in 1962, and the proliferation of suburban hotels and motels in the 1950s and 60s was eating into of the business from the old grand city hotels such as the Menzies, Federal, Windsor and Scotts. Photos from the Wolfang Sievers Collection show that by 1965 the reception
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Disinterest in preservation of the Federal can be explained in part by its failure to compete as hotel accommodation despite attempts at modernisation and the stark contrast of the patchwork interiors between the modern and remaining Victorian features. According to historian Robyn Annear elaborate
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Skyscrapers by contemporary definition are 10 storeys tall and exceed 50 metres. The Federal at 9 storeys narrowly misses the criteria for floors but qualified for height when the tower is included. It had a 7 storey height to roof of 156 ft (48 m) and to the additional 2 storey habitable
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The Australian Women's Weekly featured a 1967 article on socialite Peter Jansen who leased the vacant upper levels and converted them into an expansive apartment in 1967 including a bedroom in the dome of the tower with an attic window from which the entire city centre could be viewed and a rooftop
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on the mansard roofs, truncation of the chimneys, the enlarging of the top floor circular windows into taller ones, and the insertion of small windows into the main pediments. Most of the building's original gargoyles were also removed, though the statuary remained. A mezannine was added to some of
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The building had 560 rooms in total. It also featured impressively appointed dining and entertaining rooms. The hotel had 370 guest bedrooms, with a penthouse suite in the tower at the top of the building. The construction took five million bricks and cost £110,000. The building was serviced by a
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The Federal was listed in 1948 as one of the key sites for the modernisation of Melbourne. The site, along with the adjoining Australian Estate Company wool store, was purchased for £78,500 and earmarked for replacement with a new modern hotel building, however the new hotel construction did not
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The Federal Coffee Palace opened in time for Melbourne's Centennial Exhibition in July 1888. The first floors included billiards, dining, lounging, reading, and smoking rooms. Its decor was so unique that the building became a tourist attraction. Its upper five floors included nearly 400 luxury
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The interiors were equally impressive, often attributed to William Pitt featured a huge sunlit, four storey lobby with vaulted roof and grand staircase, and a main hall reached via a long arcade loggia of 14 Ionic columns. The elaborately detailed interior atrium featured giant order composite
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The boom soon turned into the economic crash of the early 1890s, and the Federal struggled to make dividends for its investors. In 1897 the Federal gained a wine licence, and changed its name to the Federal Palace Hotel, and in 1923 after years of attempts, it finally became fully licensed.
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style mansard roofs Ellerker & Kilburn designed the building with multiple setbacks to relieve its great bulk whilst making an impressive visual statement with the lofty corner dome. The setbacks were punctuated by a mixture of recessed and projected balconies, forming a loggia
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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), its height to roof of 48m exceeded the 43m
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to the design of Tappin Gilbert and Dennehy, that would be 'the finest in the city'. In November 1885, perhaps not satisfied with that design, the Company held a competition, with 13 entries; the first prize was awarded to Ellerker & Kilburn, and the second to
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just years later, the Windsor's preservation benefiting from its proximity to Parliament and the new laws introduced following the demolition of the Menzies, Federal and others which saw the Windsor become the last surviving luxury hotel of the Victorian era.
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sold it to developers Artagen Property Group (a subsidiary of a London based company) in 1971 for $ 3,730,794. Closure and demolition for a $ 12 million 23 storey office development was announced, commencing March 1972 and completed in 1973.
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did not list the Federal and chose not to oppose the demolition, at the time it was concerned mainly with preserving of earlier colonial era buildings and houses, though in 1971 it had listed the nearby much smaller 1890
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near the base, and large vertical classical temple-like structures. The external stucco facade combined a staggering array of distinctive decorative features of the period. The main entrance was paired
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lobby and some reception rooms had been completely or partly modernised, along with most of the accommodation rooms, in an effort to compete. The huge Victorian era vestibule however remained intact.
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was added to the Collins Street corner facade in addition to a large lettered 'Hotel Federal' sign on the corner. The entire external facade had also been painted dark grey with white trims.
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In 2017 approval to replace Enterprise Houes with a 46 level hotel and apartment tower was granted. In 2019 the design changed to a 35 level office building with retail at ground level.
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the function rooms resulting in the large arched window bays on the lower King Street frontage lower floors being converted into square windows. During this period a large 'Federal'
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Many of the interiors rooms were modernised in the interwar period including the dining room which was to be insulated with asbestos fibre for soundproofing in 1936.
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In response to public regret of the demolition of the Federal and other significant buildings at the time including the Menzies, the Historic buildings act 1974 and
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tower of 165 ft (50 m) making it briefly Melbourne and Australia's tallest building, exceeding Fink's Building (43m) in 1888 and until completion of the
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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".
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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".
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The builders were T. Cockram and W. Comely. Construction began in early 1886, and it opened in July 1888, in time for Melbourne's
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Overend, J. D. (1936). Proposed Acoustic Treatment Regent Dining Room Federal Hotel Collins Street Melbourne / H. Vivian Taylor.
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The Federal Coffee Palace was by far the largest and grandest product of the late 19th century temperance movement in the
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were introduced. Ironically justifications cited for not saving the Federal were used to support the preservation of the
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A cast-iron stair balustrade (with 'FCP' in the pattern) salvaged during demolition is on display at the Melbourne Museum
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as seen in 2008, like the Rialto was built offset to the street at 45 degrees. It was itself demolished in 2020-2021.
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completed the previous year making it briefly Melbourne and Australia's tallest building until completion of the
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How cultural cringe spelled the end of Marvellous Melbourne buildings, and how locals eventually fought back
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in response to its acquisition by developers, one of few similar type of buildings to be Trust listed. No
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View of the hotel in the 1950s. Many of the external and internal modifications dated to this period.
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Enterprise House the 1975 brutalist building on the right just in front and left of the much taller
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ionic columns in a large Paladian arrangement. Other external features included extensive use of
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proceed. The owners would instead attempt to modernise some of the bars and accommodation.
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1886 illustration by engraver F. A. Sleap showing it one floor more than actually built.
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Statuary salvaged from the building on display at McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery
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The Federal's replacement, the 23 storey Enterprise House was completed by 1975.
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Some minor modifications had taken place by the 1950s, including the removal of
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which were later removed, including lions and gryphons on the upper storeys.
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passenger lift, one of Melbourne's earliest which was popular with visitors.
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History of the Hotel Federal : (formerly the Federal Coffee Palace)
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in mid 1890, which measured 53m to the top of its corner spire.
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The Federal was designed in an eclectic style, with an array of
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completed the same year and 9 metres shorter than the 1886
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outside Frankston, Victoria in 1996, and a panel of the
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Some elements of the building were carefully removed by
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Facade detail prior to demolition, still largely intact.
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of 1887, which was 67 metres (220 ft) to the roof.
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Federal Hotels P/L, seeking funds to develop Hobart's
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Unlike many other historic buildings in the city the
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In June 1885, the local businessmen and politicians
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Knowledge (XXG) talk:Articles for creation/Federal Hotel, Melbourne

Melbourne
Victoria
Australia
Federal Coffee Palace Company
Federal Coffee Palace Company
William Pitt
Federal Coffee Palace Company
French Second Empire
temperance hotel
city centre
Melbourne, Victoria
Spencer Street Station
555 Collins Street
lost
southern hemisphere
The Age
Fink's Building
Australian Building

James Mirams
James Munro
Federal Coffee Palace Company
temperance hotel
William Pitt
Renaissance Revival
French Second Empire
Centennial Exhibition
Exhibition Buildings

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