Hotels: Oldest

The oldest licensed pub is South Australia is the Edinburgh Castle in Currie Street, Adelaide. Its proprietor, John Guthrie, was granted the first license to sell alcohol in South Australia on 31 May 1837. The pub was originally known as Guthrie's and parts of the original building are still in use. Other pubs opened in Adelaide later the same year include The Princes Berkley in Hindley Street (then known as The Buffalo's Head and for some time as the Black Bull), Fordham's (known later as the Sturt Arcade Hotel), now Grenfell 110, Grenfell Street and The British in Finniss Street, North Adelaide. The oldest intact and wholly original hotel building is the former Beresford Arms in Gilles Street, built in 1839.