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Building of the first section of Government House began in 1839. Prior to this, the Governor John Hindmarsh, and then his successor George Gawler, lived in a three-roomed wattle and daub cottage with calico ceiling.
In 2024, as part of the Adelaide Festival, Rundle Mall hosted a special activation featuring Little Amal, a 3.5-metre puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee girl, drawing large crowds with this symbol of hope.
The first street statue erected in the city on North Terrace is actually a copy of a famous neoclassical work. Based on Italian sculptor Antonio Canova’s ‘Venus’, it was chiselled from Carrara marble by Fraser & Draysey, and presented by Mr W A Horn to Mayor F W Bullock on 3 September 1892.
Walk too fast and you might miss the home of Adelaide’s ‘establishment’ on North Terrace.
The South African War Memorial is a life-sized, 3.4 metre tall bronze statue of a mounted infantryman located on the corner of King William Street and North Terrace and is a memorial to all those who fought and fell in the Boer War (11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902).
