Parliament House stage 1 |
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| Title : | Parliament House stage 1 |
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| Date of creation : | 1928 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
| Dimensions : | 151 x 106 | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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| Description : |
West wing of Parliament House, North Terrace photographed in 1928. Building began in 1883, 10 years after the design competition for the building had been won by Edmund Wright and Lloyd Tayler. It was completed in 1889. Construction material was sourced from the colony: the grey marble from Kapunda, north of Adelaide, and the granite from West Island off Victor Harbor in the south. With some modifications made to Wright and Tayler's design, as only part of the building would be built at this time, the builders still allowed foundations and superstructure of sufficient strength, to bear the dome, should it be added at a future date. The only external signs that the western end of the building was constructed fifty years earlier than the rest are the lamps on the staircase and six faces carved in the keystones of the upstairs windows. The faces are those of leading parliamentarians and Governors of that era.Sometime during the building of the second half of Parliament house in the 1930s the four ornamental urns sitting on the parapet were removed and lost. In 1989, 50 years after the building work was completed 6 reproduction urns, designed from the original drawings, were installed. |
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| Related names : | Parliament House (Adelaide, S. Aust.) |
| Coverage year : | 1928 |
| Period : | 1884-1913,1914-1918,1919-1927,1927-1939 |
| Place : | North Terrace (Adelaide: S. Aust.) |
| Region : | Adelaide city |
| Further reading : | Heritage of the city of Adelaide: an illustrated guide Adelaide Corporation of the City of Adelaide, 1990 Jensen, Elfrida Colonial architecture in South Australia: a definitive chronicle of development 1836-1890 and the social history of the times Adelaide: Rigby, 1980 South Australia. Parliament Completion of Parliament House: unveiling ceremony of commemoration stone by His Excellency the Governor, Major-General Sir Winston Dugan at Adelaide on 23rd December, 1936 Adelaide: Frank Trigg, Government Printer, 1936 Danvers Architects Parliament House, Adelaide: conservation study Adelaide: Danvers, 1987 Queale, Michael Adelaide's architecture and art: a walking guide Kent Town, S. Aust.: Wakefield Press, 1996 Fischer, Peter Vintage Adelaide [Adelaide]: Heritage Press, 1989 Morgan, E. J. R Early Adelaide architecture 1836 to 1886 Melbourne, New York, Oxford University Press [1969] Page, Michael F. Sculptors in space: South Australian architects 1836-1986 [Adelaide, S. Aust.]: Royal Australian Institute of Architects (South Australian Chapter), 1986 Turney, Barbara Adelaide, city of charm [Kent Town, S. Aust.]: Axiom Publishing, 1989 The Sunday Mail, 29 October 1989, page 42 Case of the missing urns |
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