Adelaide Walking Tour: Grand Mansions and Sub-Divisions
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Adelaide Walking Tour: Grand Mansions and Sub-Divisions
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11 Dec
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12 Dec
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14 Dec
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Adelaide Walking Tour: Grand Mansions and Sub-Divisions
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Highlights
Take an easy-paced 2 hour small-group walking tours around lower North Adelaide adjacent to the city of Adelaide. The focus of this 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
Adelaide
8 minsAdmission Ticket Free• North-east corner of Brougham Place & O'Connell Street - Introduction including brief history of Adelaide and North Adelaide and its development, route of tour, duration and other housekeeping. Discuss Victorian Villa and its previous occupants. (8 min)Adelaide
10 minsAdmission Ticket Free• Lincoln College - Discuss history of building, occupants, significance, connection with University of Adelaide (10 min)Adelaide
15 minsAdmission Ticket Free• St Margarets - Former use of house, history, architecture, occupants (3 min) • Taylor House - History - noted occupants, architecture ( 3 min) • Federation Style House - History - story of owners - architecture ( 3 min) • Nurney House - Historic and heritage value - occupants - architecture (3 min) • St Andrews - History of house, architecture, previous owners (3 min)Adelaide
16 minsAdmission Ticket Free• Georgian Style House - Architecture, reference to early colonial family (3 min) • Victorian Villa - Architecture including iron foundry work, previous owners, history of house (3 min) • Chichester Gardens Estate - History of estate, founder - occupier of limestone house (4 min) • Sandstone villa - boom period buildings (3 min) • Semi-detached cottages - German community connection (3 min)Adelaide
16 minsAdmission Ticket Free• Row Houses - History - usage (3 min) • Row Houses - cottages - usage (3 min) • Kentish Arms Hotel - History - connection with the sport of Cricket - previous owners - current use (4 min) • Semi-detached cottages - 1850's - history - occupiers (3 min) • Semi-detached cottages - connection to first settlement (3 min)Adelaide
16 minsAdmission Ticket Free• Cottage - German influence (3 min) • Cottage - German inhabitants (3 min) • Two storey limestone house - one of earliest houses in North Adelaide (4 min) • Shop - reference to crest above doorway - usage of building (3 min) • The Store Cafe - previous and current use (3 min)Adelaide
16 minsAdmission Ticket Free• Lion Hotel and Former Malthouse - History, development, associated characters, current usage (5 min) • St Mary's Catholic Church - reference to Mary Mackillop (5 min) • Admaston - History - architecture - occupants (3 min) • Sunnyside - History - architecture - previous owners (3 min)Adelaide
13 minsAdmission Ticket Free• Semi-Detached Houses - 1870's (3 min) • Sandstone Victorian residence - History - architecture - previous occupants ( 3 min) • Hylands - Bluestone Villa - History, occupants (3 min) • 3 Victorian Villas - History, current usage (4 min)Adelaide
9 minsAdmission Ticket Free• Former Congregational Church and Lecture Hall - History, previous usage, current usage (9 min)
What's included
INCLUDED
Local guide
NOT INCLUDED
Food and drinks
Hotel pickup and drop-off
Transportation to/from attractions
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Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Good To Know
Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Wheelchair accessible
Children must be accompanied by an adult
A maximum of 15 people per booking
Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
Location
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Provider
Down to Earth Tours
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