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.

Anzac Arch was built as a monument of appreciation to the men who fought in the First World War.

Huge crowds gathered on the streets of Adelaide on 11 November 1918 to celebrate the armistice of the First World War.

The classical building of the Art Gallery of South Australia, with its gracious colonnaded portico, is one of the cultural landmarks on North Terrace. 

Since 1936 this hall in Gothic style has served the University of Adelaide and the community

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

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

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

George Ian Ogilvie Duncan, a lecturer in law at the University of Adelaide, drowned on 10 May after being thrown into the River Torrens. Rumours spread that officers from the vice squad engaged in ‘poofter bashing’ had killed Duncan.

The simple exterior of Elder Hall belies the richness of its interior and the resonance of its organ

Right in the centre of the city, Elder Park was a first stopping point for many new migrants arriving in South Australia.

From dumping ground to pleasure gardens

Now lost, the Exhibition Building once dominated North Terrace

American aeronaut Thomas Gale made South Australia’s first successful aerial ascent in June 1871

Opened in 1957 for 360 people with a Sunday school for 300, the church has a marble porch and a 21.3m impressive entrance foyer

Every year between 1938 and 1975 Adelaidians showed pride in their city by beautifying it with mass displays of flowers on National Flower Day.

Completed in 1927 the Freemasons Grand Lodge, or Masonic Centre, is a well known landmark on North Terrace.

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

In 1910 thousands of people lined the Torrens to see the carnival of lavishly decorated boats in the first Henley-on-Torrens Regatta

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

Opened in 1986 the Migration Museum in Adelaide was a world first.

The 'University Building' has served many functions since it opened in 1882

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

Built in 1877 as a greenhouse for tropical plants, the Palm House was immediately hailed as the pride of the Adelaide Botanic Garden, and even of the city of Adelaide itself. It was the prized achievement of Dr Richard Schomburgk, the second and most renowned Director of the Botanic Garden. While it no longer houses tropical plants as originally intended, its restoration in the 1990s has meant that the Palm House is still a prominent part of the Botanic Garden experience.  It remains as the only known extant German-built glasshouse of the period anywhere in the world. 

The scene of pomp and ceremony, debates and demonstrations

Adelaide’s very first Gay Pride March took place on Saturday 15 September 1973. 

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