One of South Australia's earliest buildings and home to over 300 000 people from 1841 to 1988, Adelaide Gaol is one of Australia's longest operating prisons.

The classically styled freestone Adelaide General Post Office was constructed in the late nineteenth century and housed both the post and telegraph offices which connected Australia with the world

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

Botanic Park has blossomed as a place for informal family gatherings and a venue for public events

A geologist and explorer, Cecil Madigan crossed the Simpson Desert in the last classic Australian exploration adventure.

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

It started in a tent and grew – meals, clothes, accommodation and recreation for servicemen on the move.

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

Despite an inauspicious start as a dumping ground for waste, the East Parklands gradually developed as an attractive centre for recreation in the city. 

From dumping ground to pleasure gardens

An eclectic mix since foundation, Hindley Street has seen it all

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

Opening in 1933, inheriting the place of a cinema which had existed on the spot since 1910, the Rex Theatre was a popular cinema on Rundle Street that was demolished in 1961.

Roy Rene, known most prominently for his character of Mo McCackie, has been generally hailed as one of Australia’s best comic performers. 

In 1925/26 Thomas Sym Choon bought his four children a shop each.

A temporary camping ground for the early European settlers, the West Parklands developed to host most notably a cemetery and a school.