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.

Built in 1896, Beehive Corner with its Neo-Gothic facade has been a famous meeting spot since the early 20th century.

Brown Street, running from South Terrace to Grote Street, morphed into Morphett Street in 1967 but the area retains its out-of-the-way feel

The second oldest remaining church in Adelaide, Scots Church is still in use today.

Relief for the poor, the pregnant and the unemployed was a theme from the colony’s commencement

Dunmoochin, built around 1858, was the home of Irish emigrants John and Honora Griffin and their three children. It is an example of the many workers’ cottages built in the West End. 

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

A street in an area of contrasts - the rich, the poor, society figures, outcasts, business, leisure, health and education are associated with East Terrace

Care for migrants, the unemployed and the destitute was evident from South Australia’s foundation days.

Now lost, the Exhibition Building once dominated North Terrace

From ‘City of Churches’ to the ‘City of Cars’, Flinders Street reflects changes in Adelaide

One of Adelaide’s oldest buildings, Government House welcomes thousands of visitors each year

Her Majesty’s Theatre and the Central Market continue to attract people to Grote Street

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

Holy Trinity Church is the earliest surviving Anglican Church building in South Australia, and one of Adelaide’s oldest standing structures.

The oldest of North Terrace’s cultural buildings

Celebration, commemoration and protest happen amid the grand buildings that line Adelaide's main thoroughfare

Montefiore Hill, overlooking the city planned by Colonel William Light, was named after South Australian Colonization Commissioner Jacob Montefiore

North Terrace east is Adelaide’s premier cultural boulevard

Stretching from Adelaide’s first survey point to Parliament House, the character of this part of North Terrace continues to evolve

The site of countless debates, Old Parliament House dates from 1855

Pirltawardli, (possum home) is the site of the first Christian mission to Aboriginal people in South Australia.

The River Torrens has dominated the development of Adelaide and its metropolis, often in subtle or little recognised ways

Mansions at one end and cottages at the other, with businesses, welfare, medical and educational institutions in between, all overlooking the parklands

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

A major cemetery, a palace and an observatory have graced West Terrace along with its parklands border