Stories tagged "North Terrace": 38
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South Australian Museum (Minerals Collection)
From Darwin’s Theory of Evolution to the steam engine, scientific enquiry and exploration of the natural world was an important aspect of the Victorian era, and like many worldly men of his time Henry kept a close eye on new developments. The early…
The School of Mines and Industry: Stained glass windows
In the late 19th Century, there was a push in South Australia to encourage practical instruction in engineering, mining and agriculture. By the beginning of the 20th Century, a new building was needed for The School of Mines and Industry. Prominent…
Art Gallery of South Australia: Angel of Faith and River of Life Windows
The only Tiffany & Co. windows in Australia can be found in the Art Gallery of South Australia. American-born Louis Comfort Tiffany, son of Tiffany & Company's founder Charles Lewis Tiffany, is widely regarded as one of the leading figures…
South Australian Museum: Montgomery and Grimbly Windows
The North Wing of the South Australian Museum is home to a set of stained glass windows that were installed in 1893. The windows were made in South Australia in 1880 at the Waymouth Street studio of artists, Montgomery and Grimbly. The windows were…
Fowler's Live
The lion atop Fowler’s Live is a well-known icon of the City of Adelaide and provides a hint to the building’s former use. In 1854, David and James Fowler opened a retail shop in King William Street. The business grew rapidly and by the 1880s,…
Nexus Arts
Nexus Arts began as an artists’ collective known as the Multicultural Arts Workers Committee. The collective brought together artists in South Australia to encourage greater appreciation of the state’s culturally diverse arts. In 1984, the…
Bank of New South Wales/ Jamie’s Italian & 2KW
The former Bank of New South Wales office building is a landmark structure positioned on one of the most important intersections of the city- the corner of North Terrace and King William Street. At the time of its construction it was one of the…
Somerton Man Mystery: St Leonards Bus Stop
One of the items found in the man’s possession was a used bus ticket from the city to Somerton Beach. Detectives assumed that the man must have caught a double-decker bus from the bus stop located across from the railway station to St Leonards (now…
Somerton Man Mystery: Adelaide Railway Station
Among the items that had been found on the man’s body was an unused railway ticket from the city to Henley Beach. Detectives Lionel Leane and Len Brown made enquiries at the Adelaide Railway Station in January 1949 to see if the man had left…
Somerton Man Mystery: South Australian Museum
With no promising leads and the burial date rapidly approaching, by June 1949 it was decided that a plaster cast should be made of the body in the hope that it would help identify the man in the future. Taxidermist Paul Lawson from the South…
Somerton Man Mystery: Royal Adelaide Hospital Emergency Entrance
Although the body of a deceased man was reported to police on 1 December 1948, many had in fact seen the man lying on Somerton Beach the day before. The position of the body, propped up against the seawall with his legs crossed, had given passers-by…
Old Parliament House
The first government in South Australia was quite different to what we have today. Governing power over the new British colony was divided between a board of four men and the Governor. This council met regularly in the Sitting Room of Government…
Stella Bowen: Dancing at Government House
Stella’s mother was well-connected. Among her friends were the bishop’s wife, the governor’s wife, and the wives of university professors and the higher clergy. Stella wrote that at the turn of the century, in this quasi-British society, "There…
14 Pieces
14 Pieces is a collaboration between two artists, husband and wife Hossein and Angela Valamanesh. It was commissioned by the Adelaide City Council and stands where the former fountain honouring Sir John Lavington Bonython once was.
The work’s…
Statue of Dr John Dowie AM
The noted Adelaide artist and sculptor Dr. John Dowie AM is immortalised in this statue by John Woffinden.
Dowie’s sculptures are found throughout South Australia and the world, from Windsor Castle to the University of Papua New Guinea in Port…
Statue of Robert Burns
This statue of the famous Scottish poet Robert Burns is evidence of South Australia’s strong ties to Scotland.
As early as 1838, Scottish migrants in South Australia were meeting and in 1881 they founded the Caledonian Society of South…
Venus: A Victorian scandal
Venere di Canova, or Venus as she is known, was the first public artwork to be erected in the city. It is a direct copy of a work by the 18th-century Italian sculptor Antonio Canova. (The title Venere di Canova means “Canova’s Venus”).
The statue is…
Ayers House
As one of the last mansions on North Terrace, Ayers House is a rare sight. This bluestone mansion is a well-known feature of the city, partly because of its most famous owner, Sir Henry Ayers.
Henry Ayers arrived in South Australia in 1840, four…
Parliament House
This Parliament House, on the corner of North Terrace and King William Road, is the second one built for South Australia. It replaced its neighbour Old Parliament House.
By the early 1870s the colony’s population and prosperity was growing. There…
The School of Mines and Industry
In 1886 there were moves to create a school in South Australia for technical and practical instruction in engineering, mining, agriculture and other industries. The school was set up two years later. Sir John Langdon Bonython, the namesake of the…
University of Adelaide: Bonython Hall
Bonython Hall is a prominent feature on North Terrace. It is also right in the centre of the vista as you make your way north along Pulteney Street from the South Terrace parklands. Bonython Hall is the reason Pulteney Street never ventured further…
University of Adelaide: Elder Hall
Ten years after the first lectures began at the University of Adelaide, the School of Music was established. Many South Australians, including composer and former Governor Sir William Robinson, had agitated for such a school. Its founding in 1884…
University of Adelaide: Mitchell Building
The University of Adelaide was South Australia’s first university. It was established in 1874 by an Act of Parliament and the South Australian government set aside land on North Terrace for the new university. While work on the buildings took place,…
Government House
The official residence of South Australia’s Governor has always been on North Terrace. However, the first one was quite different to the building we see today.
Shortly after establishing the colony, the crew of the HMS Buffalo built a small and…
Freemasons Hall
As with the nearby Adelaide Club, this imposing building was constructed as a meeting place for men. Specifically, it was for men who belonged to the Freemasons.
Freemasonry is an organisation that evolved from stonemasons’ guilds in Great Britain…
House at 261-262 North Terrace
This grand building is a rare example of the fashionable houses once visible on North Terrace.
Around 1881 two small houses were demolished so that this house could be constructed for Thomas Greaves Waterhouse. Thomas was a successful businessman…
Art Gallery of South Australia
The Art Gallery of South Australia, along with the library and museum, had several temporary homes. The Gallery occupied the Institute Building, the Jervois Wing of the State Library, and the former Jubilee Exhibition Building. It was the last of…
South Australian Museum: East Wing
In January 1895, Adelaide celebrated the opening of the South Australian Museum’s North Wing. The museum, which had housed both in the Institute Building and the Jervois Wing, had moved to the new building due to a lack of space. Just 18 months…
South Australian Museum: North Wing
The oddly plain northern wing of the South Australian Museum stands out beside the grand architecture of the East Wing and the Jervois Wing of the State Library. The wing was meant to be temporary, hence its more modest brick façade. It was built…
State Library of South Australia: Jervois Wing
This was the first of three new buildings planned to ease the pressure on space in the nearby Institute Building. By 1874, it was decided that the public library, museum and art gallery would move to a new building nearby on North Terrace. However,…