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Owen Broughton Sculpture
This Owen Broughton work won the 1976 Rundle Mall sculpture contest alongside Bert Flugelman’s Mall’s Balls and John Dowie’s Girl…
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Palm House
Built in 1877 as a greenhouse for tropical plants, the Palm House was immediately hailed as the pride of the…
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Paper Bag
Michelle Nikou’s bronze sculpture stands in almost comic contrast with the plinths that populate North Terrace further west.
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Parklands
An ongoing source of enjoyment and controversy, the parklands are a unique and remarkably intact feature of Adelaide
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Pennington Hostel 1974-1975
Arrived at Pennington Hostel Sept 1974 with my family, mum, dad, two brothers and a sister. I was nearly 14…
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Pennington Migrant Hostel
Finsbury, later known as Pennington, was the longest running of South Australia’s hostels.
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Peter Smith Dawson
Peter Smith Dawson said of himself, ‘I am a man of the soil, I come from the people and what…
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Philanthropy
‘South Australia’, wrote the early twentieth-century author of The Cyclopedia of South Australia, ‘owes its existence to a movement which…
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Pilgrim Uniting Church
The Church is a beautiful example of Revival Gothic, quite rare in South Australia. Features include the largest church pipe…
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Pirie Street
Pirie Street has been home to cottages, churches, commerce and clubs
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Pirie Street Methodist Church
Pirie Street Methodist Church was the ‘cathedral church’ of Methodism in Adelaide.
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Pirltawardli
Pirltawardli, (possum home) is the site of the first Christian mission to Aboriginal people in South Australia.
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Port Adelaide Customs House
Construction of Port Adelaide’s fourth customs house commenced in 1878, following demolition of the timber customs house established on the…
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Prisons
Although South Australia was proclaimed a free settlement, colonial officials soon found they needed a gaol to house lawbreakers.
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Public Libraries
South Australia was unique among the Australian colonies in that the South Australian Literary and Scientific Association assembled a subscription…
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Queen Victoria Monument
Since 1894 Queen Victoria has looked imperiously over the bustle of Victoria Square