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I only learnt about them from a video I was watching earlier, but Coffee Palaces were built as an alcohol-free alternatives to pubs modeled after European coffee houses but using the insane wealth of the time - Melbourne is often considered the world's richest city in 1880 due to gold rush; to make them attractive to customers.

We should all have many and it's a shame they're gone.