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LOCATION
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Address 19 - 23 King William Street ADELAIDE
Locality
Accuracy H - high level confidence
Development Plan ADELAIDE Council
Polygon Type B - Building footprint
DESCRIPTION
Details (Known As) Office (former AMP [Australian Mutual Provident Society] Building, former CBA)
Registered Name Office - C.B.A.
Significance The former Australian Mutual Provident Society Building is representative of the development and continued rise in the importance of insurance and financial institutions in South Australia, and in particular, the Australian Mutual Provident Society. Completed in 1936, it was built as the new State headquarters of the AMP, replacing smaller premises built for the Society on the same site in 1880. The building is also significant for being designed by the notable Adelaide architect Louis Laybourne-Smith, considered one of the key practitioners of architecture in South Australia in the first half of the Twentieth Century. It is architecturally significant as a representative example of a 1930s multi-storey commercial building, now becoming rare in Adelaide, and is of high integrity. Its classically derived form and abstracted details illustrate one of the common architectural styles of the period. It is concrete framed in construction and fully integrates services such as lifts, external shutters and distributed heating systems within a centrally located services core. The building also includes an evaporative mechanical ventilation system, an innovative feature at the date of its construction. (Adapted from Danvers Architects Pty Ltd Conservation Plan 1996)
Subject Index Finance - Insurance Company; Miscellaneous - Office [Miscellaneous]
Class State
STATUS
Status Code REG - Confirmed as a State Heritage Place in the SA Heritage Register
Status Date 11-SEP-1986
REFERENCE
LGA Adelaide
State Heritage ID 11574
Heritage Number 1261
SECTION 16 INFORMATION
Section 16
PLAN PARCEL & TITLE
As listed in the SA Heritage Register
Plan Parcel & Title Information CT 5975/193 C23717 F103,CT 5975/194 C23717 F105,CT 5975/195 C23717 F106,CT 5975/196 C23717 F107,CT 5975/199 C23717 F201,CT 5975/200 C23717 F202,CT 5975/201 C23717 F203,CT 5975/202 C23717 F205,CT 5975/203 C23717 F206,CT 5975/204 C23717 F207,CT 5975/205 C23717 F208,CT 5975/206 C23717 F209,CT 5975/207 C23717 F301,CT 5975/208 C23717 F302,CT 5975/209 C23717 F303,CT 5975/210 C23717 F305,CT 5975/211 C23717 F306,CT 5975/212 C23717 F307,CT 5975/214 C23717 F309,CT 5975/216 C23717 F502,CT 5975/217 C23717 F503,CT 5975/218 C23717 F505,CT 5975/219 C23717 F506,CT 5975/220 C23717 F507,CT 5975/222 C23717 F509,CT 5975/223 C23717 F601,CT 5975/224 C23717 F602,CT 5975/225 C23717 F603,CT 5975/226 C23717 F605,CT 5975/227 C23717 F606,CT 5975/228 C23717 F607,CT 5975/229 C23717 F608,CT 5975/230 C23717 F609,CT 5975/232 C23717 F702,CT 5975/233 C23717 F703,CT 5975/234 C23717 F705,CT 5975/235 C23717 F706,CT 5975/236 C23717 F707,CT 5975/237 C23717 F708,CT 5975/238 C23717 F709,CT 5975/239 C23717 F801,CT 5975/240 C23717 F802,CT 5975/241 C23717 F803,CT 5975/242 C23717 F805,CT 5975/243 C23717 F806,CT 5975/244 C23717 F807,CT 5975/245 C23717 F808,CT 5975/246 C23717 F809,CT 5975/247 C23717 F901,CT 5975/248 C23717 F902,CT 5975/249 C23717 F903,CT 5975/250 C23717 F905,CT 5975/251 C23717 F906,CT 5975/252 C23717 F907,CT 5975/253 C23717 F908,CT 5975/254 C23717 F909,CT 5975/255 C23717 F1001,CT 5975/256 C23717 F1002,CT 5975/257 C23717 F1003,CT 5975/258 C23717 F1005,CT 5975/259 C23717 F1006,CT 5975/260 C23717 F1007,CT 5975/262 C23717 F1009,CT 5975/261 C23717 F1008,CT 5981/752 C23717 F1010,CT 5981/753 C23717 FCP,CT 6006/540 C23717 F108,CT 5975/231 C23717 F701,CT 6119/713 C23717 F308,CT 6119/999 C23717 F508,CT 6134/139 C23717 F62,CT 6134/140 C23717 F61,CT 6137/98 C23717 F501,CT 6171/555 C23717 F109

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