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LOCATION
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Address Kintore Avenue ADELAIDE
Locality
Accuracy H - high level confidence
Council Area ADELAIDE Council
Polygon Type B - Building footprint
DESCRIPTION
Details (Known As) Hartley Building (originally Adelaide Teachers College), The University of Adelaide
Registered Name Hartley Building
Significance Completed in 1927 as a purpose-built Teachers Training College, in which role it was in continuous use until its transfer to the University of Adelaide in 1991, the Hartley Building is of high historical and architectural significance. As the principal home of teacher training in South Australia for sixty-five years, the building is historically important in the development and expansion of the public education system in South Australia, and for its associations with its first and second principals, Dr A J Schulz and Dr H H Penny, each of whom had a significant influence on teacher training in South Australia. The work of noted South Australian architect George Gavin Lawson, the Hartley Building is a distinctive architectural composition, significant for its rarity as an example of the Inter War Mediterranean ('Spanish Mission') Style. It is an early and unusual example of the use of the Inter War Mediterranean Style in a large institutional building in Adelaide, a style that was more common in domestic architecture in South Australia. Lawson's design incorporated a number of technical innovations in regard to fire protection, including concrete encased escape routes within the building. (Adapted from Bruce Harry & Associates Conservation Plan 1992)
Subject Index Education - Tertiary Institution
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 13652
Heritage Number 1524
SECTION 16 INFORMATION
Section 16
PLAN PARCEL & TITLE
As listed in the SA Heritage Register
Plan Parcel & Title Information CT 6129/107 H105100 S737

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