Ninety‑three places, marked in blue.

Alberton Hotel (formerly Shipwright’s Arms)

124 Port Road Alberton

As befits Port Adelaide’s oldest suburb, there has been a hotel on this location since at least 1841, when Robert Hayman was granted a General Publican’s Licence for the Shipwright’s Arms. Hotels provided travellers with food, drink and accommodation for themselves and their horses, as well as a venue for functions, meetings, inquests and land sales. The Shipwright’s Arms, rebuilt and extended to the design of architect Thomas English, reopened as the Alberton Hotel in December 1877.

Semi-detached house

80 Queen Street, Alberton

Located on the main road from Adelaide to the New Port, on the first dry land beyond the swamps, Alberton provided accommodation for many of the people who worked in Port Adelaide. This stone cottage, built around the1860s, is a good example of early residential construction. One of its earliest occupants, Captain Emanuel Underwood, arrived in South Australia in 1840. In his vessel the Governor Gawler, the second vessel built in Port Adelaide, he sailed St Vincent and Spencer Gulfs and voyaged to other Australian colonies transporting both cargo and passengers.

Former Shops

47 – 61 Sussex Street, Alberton

This row of single storey shops formed part of the Alberton Railway Station Precinct and served as an important centre for residents of Alberton and the surrounding suburbs. Constructed in the 1890s and 1910s, the shops retain much original detail including rendered masonry and glass and timber shopfronts. While the parapets from the two periods of time define the two periods, their wide span corrugated iron veranda which leads to the railway station link them.

Two-storey row house

7 Mead Street, Birkenhead

These bluestone terrace houses were constructed in 1882 for master mariner Captain William Krause and his family by contractor John Deslandes, who built many roads and residential properties in the district. Constructed after a period of strong population growth, these houses are a rare example of this type of residential housing in the district. William Krause sailed ketches and barges between Port Adelaide and SA country ports for many years before sailing interstate and overseas. These properties remained in the Krause family until 1946.

St Clement’s Anglican Church

354 Main North Road Blair Athol

St Clement’s Church, which represents the early progress of the Anglican Church in the Enfield area, was named after St Clement, the third Bishop of Rome. The church, opened in 1867, was designed by James William Cole in the Gothic Style on land donated by William Bartley. In 1878 the boundaries of the parish extended ‘from Prospect Village, north of North Adelaide to within 12½ miles of Gawler, including the districts of Enfield, Salisbury and Virginia’. No small responsibility for St Clement’s first regular priest!

Former Church

9 Berwick Avenue Devon Park

The Devon Park Congregational Church was formed when Reverends W. J. Magor and E. J. Stacy began services in a local hall in Devon Park in May 1929. This church, built to serve the needs of their community, was designed by architect, Charles Walter Rutt in a gothic style with red brick buttresses, as a church and kindergarten. The church was formally opened in May 1932 with proceedings conducted by the Reverend D. L. Benton. Declining attendances saw it close in 1969.

The Pines

2B Gurney Terrace, Enfield

Built in the 1850s for Charles French Folland on 80 acres of land he purchased from John Morphett, this dwelling is a fine example of early colonial architecture. The house is on two levels, with an unusual feature being its subterranean level, which houses a complete set of rooms. The surrounding land was developed into a profitable agricultural estate, producing barley, wheat, oats, vines, fruit trees, and vegetables. The house stayed in the Folland family for over 90 years, and remains largely as originally built.

Former Port Adelaide and Lefevre Peninsula Cooperative Society Ltd Store

23 Denman Steet, Exeter

Constructed in the 1880s for the Port Adelaide and Lefevre Peninsula Cooperative Society, this building’s raised parapet façade and tall arched shop-front windows are indicative of its use for several years as a nineteenth century commercial premises providing groceries and other necessities to members of the cooperative and the local residents of Exeter. Cooperative Societies were formed by local communities to assist their members to save and provide money for the purchase of their own home, and funeral, sickness and unemployment benefits.

Lord Exmouth Hotel

37 - 39 Exmouth Road, Exeter

First licensed in 1859, the Lord Exmouth Hotel has played an important role in the lives of the people of Glanville and Exeter in the nineteenth century, providing food and accommodation for travellers and their horses and a venue for functions, meetings, inquests and land sales. People also had letters and messages left there and for some years it was the meeting place for the Glanville Council. It survived the 1906 Local Option Poll (which closed one third of the Port district’s hotels in 1909) with the support of the police and local community.

Two-storey flats (former house)

144 Semaphore Road Exeter

This dwelling originally comprised two separate houses that had been combined to form one by the time Dr Robert Archer acquired it in 1891. In 1899 Dr Frederick L. Benham bought it. He was both a local medical practitioner and Visiting Medical Officer at St Margaret’s Convalescent Hospital 1899-1933. He amassed a library of 7000 books and was a significant collector. Bequests triggered by his death in 1938 benefitted many organisations and funded the University of Adelaide to support and encourage the study of natural history. Hence the University’s Benham Laboratories.

Former Tubemakers Administration Buildings No.1

502-494 Churchill Road, Kilburn

Until the mid-1930s all steel tubing was imported into Australia. As secondary industries expanded there became a need for Australia to manufacture its own steel tubing. In 1938 Tube Investments (UK) announced they would set up a factory at Kilburn to produce tubular steel. Built in 1939 and extended in 1940 – 42, Building No. 1 provided administration facilities for the Directors, Management and Staff of the British Tube Mills. Built in the Dry Creek Industrial Zone, British Tube Mills and neighbouring industries provided essential materials for WW2.

Former Tubemakers Administration Building No.2

502-494 Churchill Road, Kilburn

Until the mid-1930s all steel tubing was imported into Australia. As secondary industries expanded there became a need for Australia to manufacture its own steel tubing. In 1938 Tube Investments (UK) announced they would set up a factory at Kilburn to produce tubular steel. Built in 1941, Administration Building No. 2 provided canteen facilities for the Directors, Management and Staff of the British Tube Mills. British Tube Mills became Tubemakers in 1982 and then Stewart and Lloyds in 1984.

House

5 Kintore Avenue, Kilburn

This cottage is an example of working-class cottages built in Kilburn in the early 20th Century, when this part of the suburb was known as Chicago. James Gill, a labourer, was the first owner of the property in 1910. After a succession of owners, the property was purchased by Robert McConnochie in 1942, who served as a local councillor and founded the Kilburn Football Club.

House

36 Kintore Avenue, Kilburn

Part of the suburb of Kilburn was originally known as Chicago. Land was first subdivided and offered for sale in 1894 by C. H. Matters & Co., advertising the Government had invested in the Islington Railway Workshops, but was not fully realised until 1911. George Poole, a carpenter, purchased this land in 1912 and had his house built. This timber framed and corrugated iron cottage with hipped roof and corrugated iron verandah is representative of the working-class cottages built in the area at that time.

House

16 Second Avenue Klemzig

This cottage is an example of the simple style of housing built in early 20th century Klemzig after the South Australian government bought 268 acres of land for closer settlement in 1900. Twenty-three mainly two-acre blocks and 27 larger blocks were advertised as ‘suitable for garden and orchard purposes’. Originally the cottage had two main rooms with additions at the rear. A visitor to the area in 1907 said most of the settlers had good homes surrounded by fertile gardens and vineyards, and on the river flats were beautiful orange groves.

St Maximilian Kolbe Catholic Church

Rosewater Terrace, Ottoway (Agnes Street, Ottoway)

This Church is named after St Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish saint and martyr who died in Auschwitz Concentration Camp during World War Two. The building’s design imitates the shape of the traditional Polish ‘Podhale’ (mountaineer hut), symbolising protection for the largely Polish congregation. The Church also features a mosaic, designed by Stan Ostoja-Kotkowski, which is a tribute to the survivors of World War Two and a reflection of their suffering, and stained-glass windows which represent the sacrifices of those condemned to concentration camps.

House

6 Aberdeen Street, Port Adelaide

This house was built in 1898 for timber merchants Theophilus John Walter and Charles Richard Morris of Walter & Morris. Walter & Morris purchased many allotments in this area to build simple workers cottages of corrugated iron, pressed tin and timber. Ownership of this house remained with the Walter & Morris families until it was sold in 1953 to Ellis Gardner, a driver for Walter & Morris. This area was once known locally as “Tin Town” due to the number of corrugated iron workers cottages and sheds here.

Former South Neptune Island (originally Port Adelaide) Lighthouse

Black Diamond Square, Port Adelaide

This wrought iron latticework lighthouse was prefabricated by Chance Brothers of England. It was erected at the entrance to the Port River and first lit in 1869. In 1901 it was dismantled, and the lantern and optics installed in a new lighthouse on Wonga Shoal, off Semaphore. The iron structure was re-erected on South Neptune Island, off Port Lincoln, with a new lantern, serving there until 1985. In 1986 the lighthouse was restored and reassembled on this site by the South Australian Maritime Museum.

House

24 Bower Crescent Port Adelaide

This cottage was one of several built in the area for timber merchants Walter & Morris, who purchased allotments 175, 176, 177 and 180 Bower Street in 1900. Port Adelaide Mayor John Cleave said that when his house was built in this area in the mid-1800’s the locality was a tea tree swamp. As development occurred the area became known locally as “Tin Town” due to the number of corrugated iron workers cottages and sheds here.

Old Coach House

19 Calton Street, Port Adelaide

In the world before motor cars, horses were a very important part of the transport network. So important that hotels had to provide stabling for both guests’ and travellers’ horses. This former coach-house, stable and loft was built for the Port Admiral Hotel, still located nearby at the intersection of St Vincent St and Commercial Rd. The chamfered brickwork on the Calton St corner allowed coaches to turn more easily. The round metal discs on the building’s sides are anchor plates for the interior tie rods that were installed to prevent the walls spreading.

House

18 Cannon Street, Port Adelaide, SA, 5015

This house is an example of modest residential housing in Port Adelaide, providing accommodation for the working class. It retains its original design features including high ceilings, return verandah with timber posts, corrugated iron roof and picket fence. It also retains original subdivision arrangements. This property was first purchased by Mary Ryan and Thomas Fisher in 1879. In 1915 ownership of the property transferred to George Harrison, a dairyman, who delivered milk to Cheltenham, Largs Bay and the surrounding districts.

St John’s Spiritual Church

28 Cannon Street, Port Adelaide

This building is significant for representing the development of Spiritualism in Port Adelaide. The Spiritual Society of St John was founded in Adelaide in 1915. The Port Adelaide Branch of the Society first held meetings in the Institute of Marine Engineers building in Divett Street while raising funds for their own church. Previously occupied by a gymnasium, the church was officially opened in this building in February 1925 by the Rev. Jeanne B. Duncan and Mrs. R. Francis, President of the Port congregation.

St Pauls Anglican Church

1 Church Place Port Adelaide (St Vincent Street, Port Adelaide)

In January 1841 the notable explorer Captain Charles Sturt drove the first pile of the wooden building known as ‘St. Paul’s on the piles’, making St. Paul’s the third oldest Anglican parish in Adelaide. In 1852 a replacement stone church was opened. The present St. Paul’s was built in 1905 through a generous gift from a former church member, Samuel Tyzack, who also donated the stained glass windows.  The lady chapel (1915) and the war memorial (1919) were added later.

Former De Souza Bakery

62 College Street Port Adelaide

William Henry Oldfield probably occupied these premises in the 1880s, and they served as Oldfield’s Bakery until the early 1930s, when Robert and Alice De Souza rented and in 1941 purchased the bakehouse and residence. The De Souza Bakery was famous for its pies and pasties until it closed in 1991. The former bakery residence features a distinctive curved verandah to protect the displayed baked goods and a rear carriage entrance for carts.

Former Port Adelaide Customs House

30 Commercial Road, Port Adelaide

Designed by George Thomas Light in 1877, and constructed by Williams and Cleave, this building was completed in 1879. It was initially the home of the Customs Department and Marine Board and was the third Customs House in Port Adelaide. Constructed in the Victorian Italianate style of bluestone with freestone dressings, it has extensive cellars and an observation tower, and is built on timber footings on reclaimed land. It occupies the site of the original (1840) one.

Former Port Adelaide Institute (Later a part of the Customs House)

30 Commercial Road, Port Adelaide.

Completed in 1876, this purpose-built Institute building housed a library, reading rooms, residence for the librarian, book bindery and classrooms. In addition, its general museum (founded 1871) became Australia’s first nautical museum when refocused in 1933, and its Art Gallery (opened 1880) was Australia’s first regional gallery. It also opened one of Australia’s early Juvenile Libraries in 1901. In 1959 the Institute moved to new premises and this building was incorporated into the adjacent Customs House. The Port Adelaide Public Library superseded the Institute in 1979.

33 Commercial Road Port Adelaide

33 Commercial Road Port Adelaide

This building was built in the late 1800s and originally had a two-storey balcony/verandah. Its many occupants have included Charles Hains Exchange Auction Mart, Max Swift’s complete home furnishers, A. E. Bond Photographic Studios and long term owner/occupant tailor Peter Goudie. In 1949 ownership of the property transferred to MacDonald Hamilton & Co who removed the verandah and reconstructed the front of the building. P & O shipping company purchased the premises in 1960 and leased it to the Commonwealth of Australia for use as courts in 1976.

Port Admiral Hotel

55 Commercial Road, Port Adelaide

This, the oldest surviving building in Port Adelaide, was opened as the Railway Hotel in 1849 by Robert Sanders, who believed the location would be near the terminus of a proposed railway from Adelaide. New licensee Charles Calton renamed it the Port Admiral Hotel in 1852. Major external changes since then include adding a verandah in the 1890s and, during its renovation 2015-17 for reopening after a 13 year closure, a balcony. The hotel’s former coach-house, stables and loft, around the corner in Calton Street, has its own blue plaque.

Two storey row shops

71 – 75 Commercial Road, Port Adelaide

These shops, which boast a prominent position at the intersection of St Vincent Street and Commercial Road, are representative of the development of commercial establishments in Port Adelaide around 1880. Designed by local architect and Port Adelaide Councillor William Beattie and built by local Member of Parliament William Edward Mattinson, they have housed many businesses over the years. They include Robert Fraser, Drapers; J. N. Birks, Chemist and Druggist; the Criterion Dining Rooms; “Checks” Frocks and Millinery and the Sanitarium Health Food Company.

Single Storey Row Shop

117 Commercial Road Port Adelaide

These premises were built for Arthur Wilfred Gordon who opened his tailor and clothier business in 1923, where all garments were created under his supervision. He provided mercery, clothing, hats and shirts and the best selection of suiting. In the 1920s Arthur studied tailoring at night school and in 1928 toured England, Scotland, Canada and U.S.A. studying the latest English and American tailoring methods and establishing contacts for importing material. His father and three brothers were also tailors. The business remained in the family until the passing of Arthur's son Gordon in 1966.

Single Storey Row Shops

125 – 129 Commercial Road, Port Adelaide

These shops were built for Robert William Alfred Linton who purchased the land in 1922. The shops provide an excellent example of 1920’s commercial construction including the continuous verandah, elaborate parapet and patterned entry tiles. Over the years this group of shops has accommodated a diverse range of businesses including the English, Scottish and Australian Bank and Renovial Rubber Company who were long term tenants. In 2015 Dominion Homes purchased the property and suitably renovated the shops in honour of Port Adelaide’s heritage.

Masonic Building and Shops

142-150 Commercial Road, Port Adelaide

The Port Adelaide Masonic Centre is constructed in the Egyptian Revival style. The architect was C W Rutt and the builder E. Colgate, both of whom were Freemasons. The shape of the building is derived from the Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyph for “Temple”. Incorporated into the design are symbols consistent with Freemasonry. The Square and Compasses at the main entrance are the “All-seeing Eye”, and the “Winged Disk”. The doorway is flanked by two pillars with the “Celestial and Terrestrial Globes” on top.

Port Adelaide Uniting Church (former Congregational Church)

169 Commercial Road, Port Adelaide

The life of the Port Adelaide Congregational Church began on 13 November 1849. The congregation met in two other buildings before the present church was built. This Church was designed in the Gothic Revival style by architect James Macgeorge, and built by Frank Reynolds. The Foundation Stone was laid on 16 July 1867, and the opening held on 13 December 1868. In 1973, the Port Adelaide United Parish (Congregational-Methodist) was formed, which subsequently became part of the Uniting Church in Australia in 1977.

Howard House

87 Dale Street, Port Adelaide

Howard House was originally built as a four-room dwelling (c1865), the second storey was added soon after. It is representative of the substantial housing built in the eastern end of Dale Street in the 1860s and 1870s, when some of the Port’s more prominent citizens chose to live there. An early occupant, Thomas Coombe, set up the Devon Steam Flour Mill in Commercial Road. During the 1880’s – 90s a portion of the building was used as Mrs Sweetapple’s private school for young ladies. The property is named after Sister Mary Ephrem Howard, one of Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart who occupied the property as a convent in the late 1890’s.

Former IOOF (later Legacy) Hall

94 Dale Street Port Adelaide

As Port Adelaide’s population grew so did the need for social institutions and meeting places. Built for the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (Manchester Unity) Victoria Lodge in 1866, this building provided facilities for meetings, concerts and entertainment for the Order, other groups and the public. It was built in the Victorian Classical Revival style to the design of James MacGeorge. In 1949 the property was sold to Legacy, which provided care for the widows and children of deceased war veterans, and renamed Legacy Hall.

St Mary’s Catholic Church and Hall

95 Dale Street Port Adelaide

Historically, this Church/Hall complex is of State and national significance as the site of one of the earliest schools in Australia operated by the Sisters of St Joseph, which arose as a result of a very early scheme of Catholic education devised by the Reverend Father Julian Tenison-Woods, well-known priest, scientist and educator. The original church was designed by G S Kingston and dedicated in 1858. St Mary's Hall, the former school of 1869, is also significant for being an early documented use of cavity wall construction in South Australia.

Former National Bank of Australasia

9 Divett Street Port Adelaide

In 1865 the National Bank of Australasia purchased this portion of SA Company’s Reserve for their new premises which were designed by architects Messrs Wright and Woods and built, using Dry Creek stone, by Francis Reynolds in the Anglo-Italian style.  Opening in 1866 it provided bank services to the community and accommodation for the Manager, his family and their servants. During WWII the branch temporarily closed to provide offices for the Department of Import Procurement. In 1959 the property was sold and subsequently hosted the Departments of Labour and Industry and Social Welfare, Police Court #3 (1966-89) and later Port Adelaide Serviced Offices. In 2014 it transitioned into a private residence.

Divett Chambers Offices (originally the Advertiser Buildings) 1881

11 & 13 Divett Street, Port Adelaide

Advertiser Buildings, constructed in 1881 for the owners of one of Adelaide’s major daily newspapers, was designed to provide offices for the newspaper and for rent. Hence it was divided into two wings, each with their own entrance, staircase and ornamental iron gates leading into a central hallway with offices on either side. The Advertiser’s chief rival, the South Australian Register, destined to be acquired by the Advertiser many decades later, had its offices nearby. The building was renamed Divett Chambers in the mid-1930s.

Former Bank of Australasia, Port Adelaide Branch

15 Divett Street, Port Adelaide

Located in the commercial centre of Port Adelaide, this building was completed in 1891 for the Bank of Australasia’s Port Adelaide Branch and incorporated a bank, the manager’s residence, and sundry offices to let. The bank faced Divett Street and part of Lipson Street, the offices, Lipson Street. Sold privately in 1916, it later became the offices of Shipping Agents, R. Fricker and Co. Ltd, well known for their involvement in the South Australian coastal trade from 1901 to 1982.

Former Elder & Co Store

20 Divett Street, Port Adelaide

Erected as a store for Elder & Co. by Walter Smith in 1856. the structure is notable for its use of imported cast iron, with 16 iron pillars, connecting archways and overarching roof supports. Originally symmetrical in design, the facade was remodelled at a later date utilising random stone. Down the years these premises have also been used as a store for George Ferguson & Co; by Gollin & Co, importers and manufacturers agents, and Stevens & Boucaut shipping agents; as a seahorse farm, a gym, and a screen printing businessIt became a private residence.

George Wills & Co Ltd

21 Divett Street cnr Timpson Street, Port Adelaide

Originally one building, this c1900 warehouse/office and its neighbour were built close to the wharves, railways, Customs and Harbors Board offices. They were the home of several well-known businesses. J. L. Lewis & Co., Customs and Shipping Agents began here. In 1908 H. Graves & Co. Ltd, Railway, General Carriers, and Forwarding Agents, purchased it before becoming Graves, Hill & Co. Ltd in 1912. In 1923 the premises were bought by George Wills & Co., shipping agents for many large international and national shipping companies.

Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers

22 Divett Street Port Adelaide

Originally a warehouse, in 1913 this building was transformed for its new owner, the Adelaide District of the Australasian Institute of Marine Engineers. The façade was remodelled to its present form and a reading room, members room, scientific and technical library, billiard-room and kitchen were constructed. The Port Adelaide News reported: ‘Splendidly ventilated, lighted throughout with electricity, the institute will be the rendezvous for engineers who go down to the sea in ships, and where social intercourse, interchange of ideas on their profession, and lectures on the developments of engineering will take place

26 – 32 Divett Street Port Adelaide

26 – 32 Divett Street Port Adelaide

This site was originally used as a grain store for Christen & Co., and from the late 1870s as a timber mill for William King. This current building was built in the mid 20th century for the South Australian Harbors Board who occupied the site from 1957. Subsequent occupiers include the Adelaide Stevedoring Co Ltd in 1960, the Employers of Maritime Labor in 1961, the Association of Employers of Waterside Labor in 1975, Jane Lane Art Gallery in the 1990s, the South Australian Ambulance Service and more recently domestic housing.

29 – 31 Divett Street Port Adelaide

29 – 31 Divett Street Port Adelaide

This site has been utilised by a succession of businesses including printing offices, restaurants, offices, sail loft, and bulk store and carriers’ premises. It was first recorded as fenced stables, then iron stores and from 1882 as large stores with offices. The longest-standing occupier of the current building was the Port Adelaide Cooperative Carrying Co, general carriers, carting to or from the city and suburbs, from the early 1920s until the mid-1970s. Later known as Port Carriers, customs, shipping and forwarding agents, they first occupied no. 29 and later 31 as well.

Former Dalgety’s Wool Store

1-15 Fisher Street Port Adelaide

Dalgety’s Wool Store was constructed during the expansion of the wool industry in Port Adelaide, by Stuart Bros of Sydney in 1938. It exhibits the latest in design and material features of the time, while showcasing embellishments and detail reminiscent of the wool stores built in the 1880s. The building design maximised features such as lighting and ventilation, and also the efficiency in the receiving, handling, inspection and despatch of wool.

Former Weman's Warehouse and Sail Loft

Jane Street, Port Adelaide

Constructed in the 1870s, Henry Weman’s warehouse was built to store sail making materials and bulky ships stores. Henry Weman & Co. traded as sailmakers, ships' chandlers, riggers, grocers and general storekeepers until 1906, when the buildings were occupied by L.E. Small, French Polishers and Furniture Repairers. Goods were loaded using the large loading doors and first-floor hoists. The warehouse and adjacent shop were joined in the 1980s when they were restored for use by the new South Australian Maritime Museum.

3B Jubilee Street and 3a Todd Street

3B Jubilee Street and 3a Todd Street, Port Adelaide

This building was built for John Colton & Co in 1879 by Kestel & Burge to the design of architect, William Beattie. J. Colton & Co were an ironmongery and saddlery business which sold agricultural machines and tools. In 1889 J. Colton & Co amalgamated with Harrold Bros to become Harrold, Colton & Co. and in 1911 Colton, Palmer and Preston Ltd. The Vacuum Oil Company, the first oil company to establish in Australia, purchased these premises in 1916. In 1939 Howard Smith Ltd. bought them and remodelled the Todd Street face of the building. In 1982 the property was purchased by Patrick Operations

Former Missions to Seamen

11 Jubilee Street, Port Adelaide

This red brick building was officially opened in 1960 by Sir Thomas Playford, providing a club and Chaplains quarters for the Missions to Seamen’s complex that had been providing for the needs of visiting seamen for many decades. However, a steady decline in seamen needing its services led the organisation to co-locate with kindred bodies in 1980. This building became solely a residence in 1996. The adjacent dance hall and former chapel in Todd Street have also been repurposed. The Missions’ long and significant contribution to many lives is conveyed in Heather Hartshorne’s The Flying Angel (Adelaide, 1998).

Warehouse (Quins)

8 Kyle Place (formerly Hart Street) Port Adelaide

The basement of this building was built for Crooks and Brooker in 1881 to the design of architect, William Beattie by contractors Williams and Cleave. It was built strong enough to support a future three-storey building to store household equipment and tools, which was built and burnt down in 1885. This new building was built for Crooks and Brooker in 1891 for the storage of heavy goods and machinery. Built of brick and stone, the store ran from Hart Street through to Lipson Street. In 1969 these premises were sold to members of the Quin family as part of their rigging and sail making company.

Former Le Messuriers

110 Lipson Street, Port Adelaide

This single storey stone warehouse was built for Captain Peter Le Messurier in 1872 and completed in 1876 with alterations made in 1940 and 1990. Capt. Le Messurier entered into partnership with Mr. Theophilus Robin, trading as timber merchants and as “an agency for the sale, purchase and transmission of goods of every description”. On Captain Le Messurier’s passing, his sons Alfred and Ernest managed the business as A & E Le Messurier managing Coast Steamship Limited in this property until 1973.

Dwelling (Former Bank of Adelaide, Port Adelaide Branch)

114 Lipson Street, Port Adelaide

This building was designed by James Haslam C.E. in the Queen Anne style and completed in 1885 by local builders Kestel and Burge . It is an outstanding example of a bank building from the boom period of the early1880s. The façade, which features Mitcham freestone, is extremely elaborate. The Register newspaper of 10 January 1885 proudly recorded that ‘the ornamental ironwork, safe-doors, walnut mantelpieces, and the whole of the fittings are of colonial manufacture’. The Branch was closed in 1981.

Former Lewis and Webb Office

116 Lipson Street, Port Adelaide

This two-storey brick building is a notable example of an early, small mercantile property in Port Adelaide. It was purchased by the Bank of Adelaide in 1877 and used for the business of the bank until their premises next door were completed. It was later used by Alfred Charles Evans, land and share broker, and estate agent until the 1930s and then Lewis and Webb auctioneers and estate agents.

Weman's Sailmaker's Shop

117 Lipson Street, Port Adelaide

Henry Weman built this loft and shop front in the 1870s to expand on his successful ships chandlery and sail making business. The ground floor housed the Chandlery’s assortment of nautical essentials including tar, pitch, whale oil, tools, leather goods and other galley supplies. The first-floor workshop, built for sail making, features large double doors used for loading raw materials into the loft and finished sails out. In the 1980s the building was restored for use by the new South Australian Maritime Museum.

Former Warehouse

118 Lipson Street Port Adelaide

This two-storey warehouse was originally constructed of bluestone with red brick quoins in 1859. It was rendered with cement stucco in the 1950s and internally features a large pulley system once used to lower and lift goods onto horse-drawn carts. These premises provided warehouse facilities to significant Port Adelaide businesses including Robin and LeMessurier, Timber Merchants and Shipping, Forwarding and Customs Agents; John Newman & Son, Merchant and Shipping Agent; H. C. E Muecke & Co.; W & T Rhodes; R. Fricker & Co. Shipping Co; T. J. Fricker & Sons; W. P. Crowhurst Pty Ltd. and W. & R. Gibb, Carriers.

SA Maritime Museum (former Elder’s Bond & Free Stores)

126 Lipson Street, Port Adelaide

Built as bonded and free stores for Elder & Co. (predecessor of Elder, Smith & Co.) in the 1850s, these buildings are impressive examples of early warehouses. Bonded warehouses allowed merchants to store their goods until they were sold, deferring the payment of customs duties. Free stores held goods on which duty had already been paid. Since 1986 the warehouses have been home to the South Australian Maritime Museum.

Former H Muecke & Co. Warehouse

12 McLaren Parade, Port Adelaide

This building, which was originally constructed of brick, was built for Captain Henry Simpson as two stores with offices and cellars. In 1924 the premises were purchased by Louis Hugo Muecke and redeveloped for H. Muecke & Co. who conducted business as customs and shipping agents, owning and operating small coastal vessels and later a carrying company. When it was sold in 2001 the business of H Muecke & Co had been in the family for over 120 years, encompassing five generations.

House

24 The Minories, Port Adelaide

This house, built c1910, and its immediate neighbours are good examples of working class timber-framed homes.  They each have imitation-stone pressed metal for their front walls, horizontally-laid corrugated iron on the side, and a central hallway and four rooms - each with a coal burning fireplace for heating - typical of the time.  The stone patterns on each home are identical, suggesting they were built at the same time or alternatively, perhaps by the same builder. This pattern appears in the 1912 catalogue of Wunderlich Ltd a noted Australian maker of embossed metal sheeting for both exteriors and interiors.

Birkenhead Bridge

Nelson Street, Port Adelaide

A bridge to Birkenhead was suggested as early as 1851, but a bridge from St Vincent St to Glanville was built instead in 1858-59. Serious discussions resumed in the 1890s, but the more direct route to Birkenhead and its growing number of industries relied on rowing boats, steam and later motor ferries until this bridge was officially opened on 14 December 1940. Australia’s first double bascule bridge, counterweights on each 360 ton bascule meant they were so well-balanced that only two 40 h.p. electric motors were needed to open and close the

House

13 Nile Street Port Adelaide

This house, built c1910 for John and Sarah Woollatt, is a rare example of a substantial single-storey stone house in this part of Port Adelaide. The attractive stone fence with its cast iron frieze and gate is also noteworthy. Dora May Cooke, the last licensee (1943-1951) of the Port Hotel nearby on North Parade, managed this property as a guest house after the Port Hotel was demolished in 1951 for the redevelopment of Queens Wharf. The Australian Timber Workers Union owned the property 1977-1984.

Former Elder, Smith & Co ' X' Wool Store (originally D & J Fowler Warehouse)

3 – 5 Santo Parade, Port Adelaide

This purpose-built warehouse, with a street frontage to both Santo Parade and St Vincent Street, was built as a bulk store for D & J Fowler Ltd, Wholesale Manufacturing, Grocers and Merchants, and completed in 1881. It fronted the ‘New Dock’ (opened 1880). Notable features included extensive cellars, five hydraulic lifts, a hoist, an overhead traversing crane, a railway line through the building and a raised ground floor for ease of loading trollies and railway trucks. Fowlers sold it in 1942 sold to Elder Smith & Co in 1942, who used it as their Merchandise Store.

Kembla House

55 St Vincent Street Port Adelaide

The style and location of this Italianate, bluestone house with its decorative verandah and window surrounds and substantial two-storey former coach-house/stables at the rear reflect the importance of St Vincent Street as one of Port Adelaide’s main thoroughfares. Blacksmith John Bennett purchased this property in 1869 for his family. It then became a Doctors residence for many years before becoming a boarding house providing superior rooms to let, furnished single and double bed sitting rooms with all the conveniences including a hot bath, telephone and use of a kitchen.

Harrisons Milk Depot

87 – 91 St Vincent Street Port Adelaide

This two-storey milk and butter factory was built in 1927 for Harrison Bros., milk purveyors, to the design of Architect C. A. Smith. The ground floor was for offices and a shop while the second floor had huge storage and brine tanks for the creation of product. The company delivered fresh milk to customers and ships in the harbour. It ceased trading in 1974 and in 1975 the property was purchased by Quin’s Marine providing marine supplies and servicing the fishing and commercial shipping sector with equipment.

Two-Storey Shop

126 St Vincent Street, Port Adelaide

Built c1870s, this shop has played an important role in the longevity of the St Vincent Street retail shopping precinct, housing a range of small businesses including hairdressers, tobacconists, fancy goods, delicatessens and cafes. The most diverse business was that of Polish immigrants Jan and Eudoxia Rakowski, who opened in 1952. During their time it served as a restaurant with dancing, a hairdresser, haberdashery and delicatessen selling European food and music, beads, earrings, bracelets, wallets and various other gifts, and books and magazines in different languages.

Two storey shop

136 St Vincent Street Port Adelaide

This building is representative of the importance of St Vincent Street as a shopping strip to the residents of Port Adelaide. These premises housed a bakehouse for William Griffiths in the 1880s “with its stock of cakes of every order and variety”, Hampden & Co Fancy Goods, Macrow and Sons, merchants and manufacturers of furniture, clothing and jewellery, and for more than 50 years Clarksons Ltd, glass and paint manufacturers. In the 1970s the building became the premises of Brands shoes, then an office and depot for Alex P Mann hardware and from 2010 cabinetmaker Jason Hindes

Former Brunswick Pier Hotel

147 St Vincent Street, Port Adelaide

This building was built in 1867 for local butcher T. H. Parker as a shop and dwelling. It was sold in 1877, becoming first the Brunswick Pier Restaurant, before being enlarged to become the Brunswick Pier Hotel the next year. The Brunswick Pier was one of 15 local hotels to lose its licence in 1909 as a result of temperance campaigning. It once again housed a butchers shop and then several chemists from 1925 to 1996. Ironically one of them was Bevan Kirby, son of local Congregational Minister J C Kirby, a leading temperance advocate.

Bower Buildings - Two storey row shops

150-166 St Vincent Street Port Adelaide

The architectural design of this row of nine two-storey shops reflects the importance of St Vincent Street as one of Port Adelaide’s main thoroughfares. This shop has been a bakery and pastry shop since the original buildings opened in 1871, beginning with John Joseph Earle whose shop windows offered “a display of cakes which fascinated the juvenile”. Other long term occupants were Robert Anderson Lamb and William Grant Grigor who managed it as the Balmoral Tea Rooms and Bakery. ‘Mayfair’ has been in the name since 1950.

221 – 223 St Vincent Street Port Adelaide

221 – 223 St Vincent Street Port Adelaide

These two warehouses were built for William Blackler in 1865, as was No 225 across Calton St. Their strength lies in their foundations of concrete and double timbers bolted with iron straps and bolts; heavily joisted floors and inverted arches to support the windows and doorways. Throughout the years No’s 221 and 223 have served as bond and free stores for Customs and Shipping Agents, J Rawlings and Son and ships chandlers for several companies including Thompson & Co., and Paul & Gray Pty. Ltd., providing an assortment of nautical essentials including tar, pitch, whale oil, tools, leather goods and other supplies.

Warehouses

225 St Vincent Street Port Adelaide

Built for local publican William Blackler in 1865, this and his two other warehouses across Calton St exhibit the fundamental requirements of such buildings: to be easily secured, able to bear heavy loads, and allow for easy movement of goods. Their goods lifts powered by water under pressure – that is, hydraulic lifts – was one of the earliest installations in South Australia. The longest standing tenant of this building, Smith, Channon & Co, Customs, Shipping and Real Property Act Agents, relocated here from nearby Lipson St in 1918.

235 St Vincent Street

235 St Vincent Street, Port Adelaide

These three buildings were completed in 1872 to the design of architect William Beattie. The foundations were made of concrete with redgum sleepers on top and the basement walls two feet (60cm) thick for strength. No 235 was built for Captain John Bickers, manager of the B.B. (Bickers Brothers) line of ships, trading throughout the world. Tenants have included J. Gadsden, Calico and Hessian Bag Manufacturers; Gibbs – Parkinson Shoe Co.; Misses Clarke and Parkes - Cafe Australia; James H. Turnbull printing business; Kilpatrick’s Allied Wood Merchants and Lloyd Wiggins & Co Ltd, Auctioneers, Valuers and Licensed Agents

Railway Hotel

247 St. Vincent Street Port Adelaide

The Railway Hotel was first licensed in 1856 and is one of a handful of buildings that survive from the Port’s second decade of settlement. It was then across the road from the terminus of colony’s first steam-powered railway, which linked Adelaide with its port. Its first licensee was William Wooldridge. In 1907 the hotel was advertised as providing good accommodation for visitors with the best brands of spirits, wines and beers, and ales drawn through glass pipes and silver pumps.

249 St Vincent Street Port Adelaide

249 St Vincent Street Port Adelaide

This bluestone shop was completed in 1876 as a shop of eight rooms with a kitchen. No’s 249 and 251 have used for a single or two separate businesses depending on the need at the time. From the 1870s, predominantly as a pastry shop, dining room and/or restaurant, sometimes catering for large events such as weddings, and receiving a wine licence in 1878. It also provided accommodation in “five commodious and well-ventilated bedrooms upstairs” with all the comforts of home. The first-floor balcony, upper French doors and parapet are all original

John McKell & Sons, Flour Milling Engineers

15 Timpson Street Port Adelaide

John McKell purchased this building in 1901 to manufacture flour milling machinery. Flour milling was one of the important industries in 19th century South Australia, which became known as ‘the granary of Australia’. Machinery and grindstones were imported from Europe until businesses like McKells began manufacturing flour milling components. In 1925 John McKell & Sons was awarded a bronze medal for their “Marvel” flour centrifugal dressing machine and “Marvel” self-raising flour mixer at the All-Australian Exhibition in Adelaide. McKells ceased operations in 1990 and the building became a residence in 1997.

Three Storey Shop

83 Commercial Road, Port Adelaide

This building was built for the showroom of Crooks & Brooker's Furnishing Establishment. The show-room had a frontage of 30 feet to Commercial Road and went all the way through to Hart-street. In 1913 the premises were renovated for Ezywalkin. The street level was converted into a fine shop, with underlich ceilings, white enamel paint., electric lights, and special divisions for men's, women's, and children's departments. The two floors above, were used as the bulk store for all Ezywalkin South Australian shoe shops. The premises were purchased by City Rubber in 1980 and later Ripple Art Studios.

Shop and Dwelling

129 Port Road Queenstown

This building is significant as it represents the development of commercial businesses in Queenstown and the importance of Port Road as the main thoroughfare between Port Adelaide and the City. The suburb of Queenstown was subdivided in 1848. In 1902 chemist, William Joseph Stead, who devoted his life to the study of alleviating ailments, purchased this property for use as a chemist and remained there until the late 1940s. According to the newspapers of the day his prescriptions and remedies were tried and tested, and approved by many.

Chapel (former Primitive Methodist Church)

63 Grand Junction Road, Rosewater

This Gothic style stone chapel was built in 1878 for the Primitive Methodist Church. It was designed by architect Mr. W. H. Campbell and built by Walter Russell. As the population of Rosewater had been significantly increasing at that time, there was a requirement for a local place of worship. The transept was added in 1884, and the hall in 1920. To mark its jubilee in 1928, the chapel was renovated and decorated and had stained glass windows installed to honour deceased church members. The church closed in 1983.

Dwelling (former Semaphore Water Tower)

40 Blackler Street, Semaphore

The first (1878) Jervois Bridge across the Port River also carried pipes to supply Lefevre Peninsula with water. However, whenever the bridge swung open to allow boats to pass through, Peninsula folk had no water. This 30m high octagonal tower, with walls two metres thick at the base, supported a 66,000 gallon (300,000 litre) tank to maintain the water pressure. In 1898 a main from the new Happy Valley Reservoir provided the Peninsula a permanent water supply that did not cross the bridge!

Two Storey House

64 Esplanade, Semaphore

This dwelling was built for Edith Emily and Sarah Tamzzine Marshall about 1916 as a boarding house. They named it Tamerton-Folliott after the birthplace of their father, Uriah George William Marshall, who purchased the land in 1866. Uriah worked for the pilot service at Semaphore and while there, was a member of the rescue party to the wreck of the ‘Admella’ (1859), for which he received three medals for saving three people. He was later head lighthouse keeper at Cape Northumberland for 25 years.

Two Storey House

65 Esplanade, Semaphore

This substantial house represents the growth of Semaphore in the 1870s and 1880s, due in part to the extension of the Adelaide to Port Adelaide railway line to Glanville and thence to the sea end of Semaphore Rd in 1878. It was built for George and Rosa Foulis on land purchased from Uriah Marshall in 1869. Foulis was master of the schooner Hawthorn that engaged in trade with the regional ports of Port Pirie and Port Augusta, shipping goods such as wheat, wool and copper.

Dwelling (former home of Richard Jagoe)

68 The Esplanade Semaphore

This, the final home of Richard Jagoe, was built c1882, but he had lived nearby since the 1850s, when Semaphore became the service point for shipping arriving at Port Adelaide’s ‘outer harbour’, the Semaphore Anchorage. Jagoe established a fleet of small boats that transported goods and passengers to and from the Anchorage, served as Assistant Health Officer, and was the Shipping Reporter for various Adelaide newspapers for several decades. He earnt the nickname The Sandhill Savage ‘because of his potent personality and uncompromising fashion of resisting innovations he considered uncalled for’.

Former Semaphore Customs Boarding Station

74 Esplanade, Semaphore

The Boarding Station, completed in 1883, is significant for representing the period before Outer Harbor opened (1908), when the Semaphore Anchorage was the 'outer harbour' for Port Adelaide. Customs boarding officers, postal workers, pilots, signal station staff and journalists were all based at Semaphore to serve newly-arrived vessels. The Signal Station, pilots' accommodation and Mailing Station that occupied the opposite corner are long gone, leaving the Boarding Station, Timeball Tower (opposite) and Jetty as the most notable reminders of Semaphore's former shipping functions.

Semaphore Palais

86 Esplanade, Semaphore

The Palais was officially opened by the Mayor of Port Adelaide, Mr Henry Slade, on 23 December 1922. During its heyday, it was at the forefront of the State’s seaside social scene hosting lively dances, and sited alongside a fair ground, shops and a bandstand. Constructed by Messrs. Dunn and Fricker, the impressive building was modern for its time and is the only remaining example of the bathing pavilions built along the South Australian coast in the 1920s to accommodate the thriving world of seaside entertainment.

Dwelling, Warrinilla (formerly Doctor Bollen’s Surgery)

43 Semaphore Road, Semaphore

Warrinilla (restful sleeping place) was purpose-built as a doctors surgery and residence for Dr. Percival and Elizabeth Bollen in 1894. Built by J Cleave for £1500, the house served as a surgery for Dr. Bollen, later his son, Dr. Kenneth Bollen, and from 1954, Dr. Vivian Lee Hawke. Original interior joinery and external decorative detail including rendered quoins and window surrounds, paired eave brackets, and cast-iron work on the balcony and verandahs have all been retained.

Masonic Buildings

66 Semaphore Road, Semaphore

The Semaphore Masonic Lodge was consecrated in 1884. In 1909 the Lodge formed a committee to take steps to build this Masonic Building, which was completed in 1911. It included a masonic temple, lodge room, hall and four shops. The architect was Charles Walter Rutt and builder Firth Tillotsen. The Ancient Egyptian influence on Freemasonry can be seen in the archway entrance featuring columns with globes atop and the symbols on the upper left front of the building. The hall has accommodated a great many community events down the years.

House

92 Semaphore Road, Semaphore

The introduction of the trainline to Semaphore from Port Adelaide via the Jervois Bridge in 1878 encouraged development along this section of Semaphore Road. This substantial house was built of bluestone, with corrugated iron roof and wrought iron fence for Richard Henry Barrett, master of the brig Lochinvar who purchased this land in 1881. Barrett worked the interstate coastal trade, visiting Newcastle and other major interstate ports before becoming one of the earliest pilots in the South Australian Pilot Service. Monika Molloy who purchased the home in 1943 operated the property a boarding house.

Semi-detached house

96 Semaphore Road, Semaphore

These stone buildings with bay windows, rendered masonry trim, and corrugated iron roof were built on land originally granted to Robert Thornber on 9 May 1850 by Sir Henry Edward Fox Young, Lieutenant Governor of South Australia. Captain John Yeo, who purchased this allotment in 1878 owned several ships which traded between Port Adelaide and west coast ports. These houses represent the development of substantial residential properties along this section of Semaphore Road due to the introduction of the railway to Semaphore from Port Adelaide via the Jervois Bridge in 1878.

Semi-detached House

102 Semaphore Road, Semaphore

In 1854 this land was advertised “the position of this allotment renders it valuable as an investment”. Frederick James Sanderson, the first Commissioner of Patents, from 1878, Collector of Customs and later President of the Marine Board, purchased the land in 1866. This bluestone building with bay windows, decorative parapet and corrugated iron roof represents the development of substantial residential properties built along this section of Semaphore in the late 1800’s due to the introduction of the railway to Semaphore from Port Adelaide via the Jervois Bridge in 1878.

Shop and dwelling

115 – 117 Semaphore Road, Semaphore

When William Jenkins moved his butchers shop from nearby Harris Street to here in 1886 he set the scene for decades of butchers. His stay was brief, but his successor James Hollis leased the premises from c1891, bought them in 1894, and they remained in the family until 1958. The building dates from a time when butchers did their own slaughtering and, in the absence of refrigeration, carcases were hung from shops’ verandahs in the street. The opening of the Metropolitan Abattoirs at Gepps Cross in 1913 signalled the end of that era.

Two-storey row of shops

119 – 121 Semaphore Road, Semaphore

These shops served the increasing population requiring goods and services at the eastern end of Semaphore Road. William Hastie’s bakehouse and grocery shop, now 119 Semaphore Road, opened in 1883 in this new stone building, which claimed to be ‘the finest two-storied structure in the neighborhood’. It also included living quarters and extensive sheds and stabling. The store sold general goods as well as hiring out horses and traps. From 1895 A C Fraser & Co sold the latest in drapery lines including hosiery, millinery and capes for more than fifty years.

House

10 Union Street, Semaphore

The fine stone and brick houses of Union St began to be constructed in the mid- 1880s after allotments were advertised for sale in 1878 and 1895. Early residents included ship chandler and sailmaker William Russell, printer and newspaper editor Edwin Derrington, and partner in wholesale grocers D & J Fowler, James Phillips.  This home was built for Edmund and Lena Elkan c1896. In 1905 the two other directors of Edmund’s Adelaide-based Continental Import and Finance Corporation were Eugen Elkan and B. Rothschild, both bankers of Berlin. Note especially the railed rooftop lookout - one of only two such structures remaining in Semaphore.

Former Post and Telegraph Office

15 Semaphore Road, Semaphore

OWNER NO LONGER INTERESTED

Built in 1881 to service a rapidly growing population and an increase in the arrival of mail boats to Semaphore, this building is an example of government-constructed buildings of the late-nineteenth-century. The Semaphore Post Office, which was comprised of post and telegraph offices, living quarters and a telephone exchange, operated for over a century, servicing generations of local residents, before moving to the opposite side of Semaphore Road in 1983. The building has since operated as a medical clinic, Member of Parliament’s office and skin care clinic.

104 Pitman Road Windsor Gardens

104 Pitman Road Windsor Gardens

This house represents the agricultural past of this area. Walter Henry Pitman purchased 21 acres of land in 1905, with construction of this substantial house taking place c1915. At that time this portion of Windsor Gardens was known as Bovagh Estate, which was part of a largely agricultural area, characterised by small and large market gardens. Walter Pitman cultivated an orange orchard, lemons and vegetables on this property which remained in the Pitman family until 2017. Post World War Two the South Australian Housing Trust built 675 houses by 1964-65, changing the Windsor Gardens landscape from rural to residential.