Adelaide Walking Tour: Grand Mansions and Sub-Divisions

Take an easy-paced 2 hour small-group walking tours around lower North Adelaide?ÿadjacent to?ÿthe city of Adelaide. The focus of this tours is on history heritage and culture and covers not only the architecture and history of the varying buildings but also the people who have been associated with them and the stories about Adelaide’s development from colonial times to today. Most of the sites visited are public institutions statues and monuments as well as private homes and tour participants whether locals interstate or from overseas get to experience the essence of what Adelaide is all about.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Adelaide Adelaide Greater Adelaide South Australia

ƒ?› North-east corner of Brougham Place & O’Connell Street – Introduction including brief history of Adelaide and North Adelaide and its development route of tour duration and other housekeeping. Discuss Victorian Villa and its previous occupants. (8 min)

Duration: 8 minutes

Stop At: Adelaide Adelaide Greater Adelaide South Australia

ƒ?› Lincoln College – Discuss history of building occupants significance connection with University of Adelaide (10 min)

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Adelaide Adelaide Greater Adelaide South Australia

ƒ?› St Margarets – Former use of house history architecture occupants (3 min)
ƒ?› Taylor House – History – noted occupants architecture ( 3 min)
ƒ?› Federation Style House – History – story of owners – architecture ( 3 min)
ƒ?› Nurney House – Historic and heritage value – occupants – architecture (3 min)
ƒ?› St Andrews – History of house architecture previous owners (3 min)

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Adelaide Adelaide Greater Adelaide South Australia

ƒ?› Georgian Style House – Architecture reference to early colonial family (3 min)
ƒ?› Victorian Villa – Architecture including iron foundry work previous owners history of house (3 min)
ƒ?› Chichester Gardens Estate – History of estate founder – occupier of limestone house (4 min)
ƒ?› Sandstone villa – boom period buildings (3 min)
ƒ?› Semi-detached cottages – German community connection (3 min)

Duration: 16 minutes

Stop At: Adelaide Adelaide Greater Adelaide South Australia

ƒ?› Row Houses – History – usage (3 min)
ƒ?› Row Houses – cottages – usage (3 min)
ƒ?› Kentish Arms Hotel – History – connection with the sport of Cricket – previous owners – current use (4 min)
ƒ?› Semi-detached cottages – 1850’s – history – occupiers (3 min)
ƒ?› Semi-detached cottages – connection to first settlement (3 min)

Duration: 16 minutes

Stop At: Adelaide Adelaide Greater Adelaide South Australia

ƒ?› Cottage – German influence (3 min)
ƒ?› Cottage – German inhabitants (3 min)
ƒ?› Two storey limestone house – one of earliest houses in North Adelaide (4 min)
ƒ?› Shop – reference to crest above doorway – usage of building (3 min)
ƒ?› The Store Cafe – previous and current use (3 min)

Duration: 16 minutes

Stop At: Adelaide Adelaide Greater Adelaide South Australia

ƒ?› Lion Hotel and Former Malthouse – History development associated characters current usage (5 min)
ƒ?› St Mary’s Catholic Church – reference to Mary Mackillop (5 min)
ƒ?› Admaston – History – architecture – occupants (3 min)
ƒ?› Sunnyside – History – architecture – previous owners (3 min)

Duration: 16 minutes

Stop At: Adelaide Adelaide Greater Adelaide South Australia

ƒ?› Semi-Detached Houses – 1870’s (3 min)
ƒ?› Sandstone Victorian residence – History – architecture – previous occupants ( 3 min)
ƒ?› Hylands – Bluestone Villa – History occupants (3 min)
ƒ?› 3 Victorian Villas – History current usage (4 min)

Duration: 13 minutes

Stop At: Adelaide Adelaide Greater Adelaide South Australia

ƒ?› Former Congregational Church and Lecture Hall – History previous usage current usage (9 min)

Duration: 9 minutes