Adelaide Architecture Tour

Join an easy-paced 2 hour small-group walking tours around upper North Adelaide adjacent to the city of Adelaide. The focus of these 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.

Meeting Point

Wellington Hotel

36 Wellington Square, North Adelaide SA 5006, Australia

Outside of the Wellington Hotel

What's included:

• Local guide

Not included:

• Food and drinks
• Hotel pickup and drop-off
• Transportation to/from attractions

What to expect:

Duration: 2 hours

Down to Earth Tours

Adelaide, South Australia

• Wellington Hotel - Introduction including brief history of Adelaide and North Adelaide and its development, route of tour, duration and other housekeeping. Discuss Wellington Hotel and its history. (10 min)
• Wellington Square - Discuss history of square, significance (5 min)

15 minutes

Adelaide

Adelaide, South Australia

• City Land Investment Company Sub-Division - Discuss history, significance, area covered (7 min)

7 minutes

Adelaide

Adelaide, South Australia

• Victorian Mansion - History, architecture, previous occupants ( 3 min)
• St Dominic's Priory - History, previous and current usage - pioneering connection ( 5 min)

8 minutes

Adelaide

Adelaide, South Australia

• Zephyrside - History - connection to Australian Rules Football (6 min)
• Two-storey house - previous occupants - history (6 min)

12 minutes

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Adelaide, South Australia

• Interwar Bungalow - History, occupants (4 min)
• Sidegarth - History, Pioneering family connection (5 min)

9 minutes

Adelaide

Adelaide, South Australia

• St Laurence's Church & Priory - History, architecture (7 min)
• Red brick Edwardian residence - architecture (3 min)

10 minutes

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Adelaide, South Australia

• Buxton House - History, previous occupants including Sir Josiah Symon (7 min)
• Victorian sandstone residence - architecture (2 min)

9 minutes

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Adelaide, South Australia

• The previous "Corner Store" - architecture (3 min)
• Sandstone residence - 1870's - architecture (3 min)
• Regency Style dwellings - History, occupants, architecture (3 min)
• Bluestone Semi-detached houses - Architecture (3 min)

12 minutes

Adelaide

Adelaide, South Australia

• Victorian Limestone dwelling - 1870's - architecture (3 min)
• Veda, previously Greenhill Galleries - History, occupants (5 min)
• Semi-detached 1870's-1880's dwellings - Architecture (4 min)
• Workers Cottages - 1840's - 1860's - History (4 min)

16 minutes

Adelaide

Adelaide, South Australia

House - connection to early pioneer - architecture (6 min)
• Cottage - 1850 - occupant history (5 min)
• Bay fronted Sandstone Residence - 1870's-1880's - Architecture (4 min)

15 minutes

Adelaide

Adelaide, South Australia

• Bay fronted Sandstone Residence - 1880's - architecture (4 min)
• Bluestone Villas - Architecture (3 min)

7 minutes