Empire Hotel, Fortitude Valley, Heritage-listed hotel in Fortitude Valley, Australia.

The Empire Hotel is a three-story brick building in Fortitude Valley featuring ornate verandahs and cast-iron columns. Across its three levels sit a public bar, bistro, lounge areas, and multiple dining spaces with decorative timber details.

This building was constructed in 1888 to replace an earlier hotel from 1865 that once stood on the same site. It emerged during a growth period for Brisbane's hospitality sector and has shaped the neighborhood since.

The hotel's name carried over from the earlier Empire (Family) Hotel that stood here from 1865, bought by Nathaniel Corrigan in 1871 for £950. Its first publican was Walter McFarlane, and the 1888 building held over sixty rooms. The ground floor still works as a bottle shop entered from the street corner, a public bar off Brunswick Street and a lounge bar and bistro.

The hotel stands at the corner of Brunswick and Ann Streets, with the bottle shop entered from the street corner and the public bar and foyer off Brunswick Street. The upper floors are working hotel areas, not open to visitors; the ground-floor bar and bistro are the parts the public can use.

The 1937 conversion of part of the Ann Street wing into the Empire Apartments cut that frontage from seven bays to three when the flats were demolished in the 1960s. Look up at the Brunswick Street parapet: its projecting pediment is flanked by interlocking circles instead of balusters.