Providing housing for ‘industrious and deserving’ workers since 1899

The person responsible for the greening of Adelaide in the first decades of the twentieth century.

Cawthorne was a dynamic music seller and concert manager, and is remembered as a genial raconteur.

Daniel Moriarty has been acclaimed as the greatest footballer between the two World Wars.

Works by the renowned and unpretentious artist John Dowie enhance many public places

Joachim Wendt was a Danish-born silversmith whose work included extravagant naturalism, Edwardian style, and restrained Regency taste.

A union official and social reformer who was not a socialist, John McPherson became the first leader of South Australia's Parliamentary Labor Party 

Mahomet Allum was described in glowing testimonials as 'the wonder man' and by his adversaries as a 'quack'. 

A very industrious and conservative businessman, Murdoch McLeod was generous but modest and never flamboyant. 

A botanist, horticulturist and the director of the Adelaide Botanic Garden, Richard Schomburgk was honoured locally as 'the people’s pet'. 

A pastoralist, philanthropist and businessman, Elder supported numerous outback expeditions and Adelaide institutions.

William Muirden founded the Muirden College for Business Training, and was known for the balanced symmetry and harmony of his nature.