North Adelaide Trip Overview
Join an easy-paced 2 hour small-group walking tours around upper North Adelaide adjacent to the city of Adelaide. The focus of these tours is on history, heritage and culture and covers not only the architecture and history of the varying buildings but also the people who have been associated with them, and the stories about Adelaide’s development from colonial times to today. Most of the sites visited are public institutions, statues and monuments as well as private homes and tour participants, whether locals, interstate or from overseas get to experience the essence of what Adelaide is all about.
Additional Info
Duration: 2 hours
Starts: North Adelaide, Australia
Trip Category: Tours & Sightseeing >> City Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Join an easy-paced 2 hour small-group walking tours around upper North Adelaide adjacent to the city of Adelaide. The focus of these tours is on history, heritage and culture and covers not only the architecture and history of the varying buildings but also the people who have been associated with them, and the stories about Adelaide’s development from colonial times to today. Most of the sites visited are public institutions, statues and monuments as well as private homes and tour participants, whether locals, interstate or from overseas get to experience the essence of what Adelaide is all about.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Down to Earth Tours, Adelaide, South Australia Australia
• Wellington Hotel – Introduction including brief history of Adelaide and North Adelaide and its development, route of tour, duration and other housekeeping. Discuss Wellington Hotel and its history. (10 min)
• Wellington Square – Discuss history of square, significance (5 min)
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Adelaide, Adelaide, Greater Adelaide, South Australia
• City Land Investment Company Sub-Division – Discuss history, significance, area covered (7 min)
Duration: 7 minutes
Stop At: Adelaide, Adelaide, Greater Adelaide, South Australia
• Victorian Mansion – History, architecture, previous occupants ( 3 min)
• St Dominic’s Priory – History, previous and current usage – pioneering connection ( 5 min)
Duration: 8 minutes
Stop At: Adelaide, Adelaide, Greater Adelaide, South Australia
• Zephyrside – History – connection to Australian Rules Football (6 min)
• Two-storey house – previous occupants – history (6 min)
Duration: 12 minutes
Stop At: Adelaide, Adelaide, Greater Adelaide, South Australia
• Interwar Bungalow – History, occupants (4 min)
• Sidegarth – History, Pioneering family connection (5 min)
Duration: 9 minutes
Stop At: Adelaide, Adelaide, Greater Adelaide, South Australia
• St Laurence’s Church & Priory – History, architecture (7 min)
• Red brick Edwardian residence – architecture (3 min)
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Adelaide, Adelaide, Greater Adelaide, South Australia
• Buxton House – History, previous occupants including Sir Josiah Symon (7 min)
• Victorian sandstone residence – architecture (2 min)
Duration: 9 minutes
Stop At: Adelaide, Adelaide, Greater Adelaide, South Australia
• The previous “Corner Store” – architecture (3 min)
• Sandstone residence – 1870’s – architecture (3 min)
• Regency Style dwellings – History, occupants, architecture (3 min)
• Bluestone Semi-detached houses – Architecture (3 min)
Duration: 12 minutes
Stop At: Adelaide, Adelaide, Greater Adelaide, South Australia
• Victorian Limestone dwelling – 1870’s – architecture (3 min)
• Veda, previously Greenhill Galleries – History, occupants (5 min)
• Semi-detached 1870’s-1880’s dwellings – Architecture (4 min)
• Workers Cottages – 1840’s – 1860’s – History (4 min)
Duration: 16 minutes
Stop At: Adelaide, Adelaide, Greater Adelaide, South Australia
House – connection to early pioneer – architecture (6 min)
• Cottage – 1850 – occupant history (5 min)
• Bay fronted Sandstone Residence – 1870’s-1880’s – Architecture (4 min)
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Adelaide, Adelaide, Greater Adelaide, South Australia
• Bay fronted Sandstone Residence – 1880’s – architecture (4 min)
• Bluestone Villas – Architecture (3 min)
Duration: 7 minutes
