Manufacturing Sites

This is a narrow three-storey Victorian commercial building built to James Place frontage for the Goode Brothers in the 1870's. Bluestone upper storeys with cream-painted brick quoins, painted brick side walls, painted render below first floor windows and at ground level. Upper storeys are intact including sashed windows flanking large ... Continue Reading »

This is a five-storey interwar commercial building (warehouse and office) built to French Street frontage, with original entrances, windows and detailing. Red brick construction, timber windows, central timber framework and windows. Symmetrical treatment of façade, with strong vertical divisions of brick façade surmounted by projecting brick cornice, and divided into ... Continue Reading »

This two-storey building, bluestone at ground floor and brick at the second storey, has a Dutch gable parapet in front of its iron gable roof, and mild Italianate detailing above the first-storey windows that feature segmentally arched heads: the windows are timber-framed double hung sash. The front window and door ... Continue Reading »

The Adelaide Cordial Factory building was erected in 1877 for the manufacturers and importers Stephen & Company. The business was begun in early 1877 by M Stephens and JS Solomon, and was one of several such manufactories established in Adelaide. Under Joseph Clare (formerly of Hall & Sons, Norwood) the ... Continue Reading »

A. Simpson and Son's Colonial Tinware Manufactory was on the northeast corner of Grenfell Street and Gawler Place. Simpson's had occupied the site in 1854, and first stages of the building were constructed about this time. In 1971, the second floor was added to the design of James Cumming; Brown ... Continue Reading »

Holden and Frost was a firm of saddlers, shown by the horse which topped the porch of its building in Grenfell Street. The firm had begun in 1859, but it was not until the late 1870s that it moved to this building, designed for it by Daniel Garlick. The building ... Continue Reading »

This was built in 1881 for W. & H. Bickford, wholesale druggists, whose business was conducted here. Architecturally it is one of the few example in Adelaide of a building of its period erected for a great business to combine an office and warehouse. The site is part of the ... Continue Reading »