Dictionary of Sydney

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Retail and office building on the corner of Hay and Sussex Streets in Haymarket that was originallly built as a temperance hotel called the Great Western Coffee Palace on land resumed for slum clearance. It became a licensed hotel in 1916 and renamed the Burlington Hotel. In 1965 it was the scene of a demonstration protesting against the hotel's policy to refuse admission to Aboriginal patrons. In the 1980s it was converted into the Kien Hay Centre, containing retail and offices.

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Constructed
1912 - 1914
Name
Alternate
Great Western Coffee Palace
Alternate
Burlington Hotel
Type