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This month in South Australia’s history

The Grosvener Hotel opens

Opened in July 1920 and designed by Albert Selmar Conrad, the four-storeyed Grosvenor with its 368 bedrooms (each with a wash basin) and marble façade rivalled the South Australian Hotel.

“A Day Out” is installed

Rundle Mall was given a makeover by the Adelaide City Council in the mid 1990s with the installation of new paving, lights, seating and trees. A set of bronze sculptured pigs by Marguerite Derricourt, ‘A Day Out’, was added on 3 July 1999.

The German Club is founded

Der Deutscher Verein was founded on 15 July 1854. The club began meeting in the Hotel Europe in Grenfell Street, but sought more extensive accommodation in a building of its own in the mid 1870s. The foundation stone for the new building on Pirie Street was laid on 19 August 1878 and the clubhouse was opened on 14 July 1879. The German Club continued in these premises until 1899, when it was forced to sell the building to pay for accumulated debts.