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Light's Vision
Corner Pennington Terrace and Montefiore Road
NORTH ADELAIDE, SA, 5006
Telephone:  08  8203 7203
Email address:  city@adelaide.sa.gov.au
Web address:  http://www.adelaidecitycouncil.com.sa.gov.au
Fax:  08  8203 7575
This lookout was designed in 1938 to incorporate the life size bronze of Adelaide's founding father, Colonel William Light, who was responsible for fixing and surveying the site of the City of Adelaide in the summer of 1837. The statue designed by Scottish sculptor, Birnie Rhind was first unveiled in Victoria Square in 1906, but it was moved in the mid 1930's because it had become a traffic hazard.

 

Marble Hill - Vice-Regal Ruin in Park Setting
Marble Hill Road
MARBLE HILL, SA, 5137
Telephone:  08  8387 0581
Fax:  08  8387 6310
Marble Hill was built as a summer residence for South Australia's early Governors. Completed in 1879 this 26 roomed house was designed in a Victorian gothic revival style.

 

Marvellous Mansions Cottages and Castles
City of Adelaide
Customer Centre
25 Pirie Street
ADELAIDE, SA, 5001
Telephone:  08  8203 7300
Web address:  http://www.adelaide.sa.gov.au
Fax:  08  8203 7554
Email address:  s.jung@adelaide.sa.gov.au
This walk through the Western part of North Adelaide features villas and semi-detached houses built during the boom period in the 1880s. Elsewhere, church and priory are combined at St Dominics and St Laurences creating landmarks of great character for the area.

 

 Mary MacKillop Centre
19 Phillips Street
KENSINGTON, SA, 5068
Fax:  08 8331 7585
Telephone:  08 8364 5311
Mobile phone:  0417 862 066
Email address:  mackillopkens@bigpond.com.au
Mary MacKillop was 24 years of age, when she founded a new and different kind of Religious Congregation of women to suit Australian conditions. The eldest of eight children of Scottish migrant parents, at sixteen she found herself the 'bread-winner' of the family as an employee of the stationery firm, Sands and Kenny in Melbourne.

 

Masonic Centre
254 North Terrace
ADELAIDE, SA, 5000
Telephone:  08  8223 1633
Email address:  glsa@freemasonrysaust.org.au
Fax:  08  8224 0755
Completed in 1927, this unique structure is the headquarters of Freemasonry in South Australia. The design, created by Mr W H Harral of the firm of Messers Bruce and Harral, Architects, was selected from a number of entries submitted by competing architects in South Australia in 1922.

 

North Adelaide Baptist Church
146 Tynte Street
NORTH ADELAIDE, SA, 5006
Telephone:  08  83369040
Fax:  08  8267 1635
As far back as 1838, before Adelaide was two years old, a little company of Baptists was meeting together for worship. In 1844, a chapel was built between Brougham Place and Kermode Street.

 

Paddocks to Picnic Grounds
City of Adelaide
Customer Centre
25 Pirie Street
ADELAIDE, SA, 5001
Telephone:  08  8203 7300
Fax:  08  8203 7554
Email address:  s.jung@adelaide.sa.gov.au
Web address:  http://www.adelaide.sa.gov.au
During the 19th century, the Adelaide Park Lands were used extensively for depasturing stock. In 1878 there were nearly 6,500 cows, 2,200 sheep and more than 1,100 horses licensed to graze across the Park Lands.

 

Parliament House
Corner North Terrace and King William Street
ADELAIDE 5000
This classical building with its majestic marble columns, Corinthian capitals and keystone portrayals of nineteenth century governors, presidents and speakers is located on the corner of King William Street and North Terrace. Visitors are welcome whenever parliament is sitting or there are free tours on non-sitting weekdays at 1000 and 1400.

 

Pilgrim Church
12 Flinders Street
ADELAIDE, SA, 5000
Telephone:  08  8212 3295
Fax:  08  8212 9637
Email address:  pilgrim.church@senet.com.au
Pilgrim Church came into being on 1 June 1969, when the Pirie Street Methodist Church and Stow Congregational Church united to form one congregation in the Stow Building. At the time of union it was called Union Church in the City but when the Uniting Church was formed the name of Pilgrim Church was adopted.

 

Platform 1 Heritage Farm Railway
Junction Road
LITTLEHAMPTON, SA, 5250
Email address:  liebelt@hotkey.net.au
Telephone:  08 8391 2696
Fax:  08 8391 6864
Mobile phone:  0412 324 022
Travel by train through and past historic farm buildings. Past cattle, sheep and possibly a chook or two.

 

Port Walks
66 Commercial Road
PORT ADELAIDE, SA, 5015
Telephone:  08  8405 6564
Web address:  http://www.portenf.sa.gov.au
Email address:  visitorinfo@portenf.sa.gov.au
Let a local volunteer tour guide showcase the State's first Heritage Area by taking you on a one hour walk around Port Adelaide in the maritime heart of South Australia. Port walks can be personalised to cater for special interests, otherwise the tour guide will take you for a stroll and introduce you to Port Adelaide.

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