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.
Adelaide Teachers College
Adelaide Teachers College
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.
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Significance
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. George Gavin 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)
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Architecture, construction & engineering
- Architects
- Alfred Simpson
- Builders
- Building materials
- Render
- Architectural styles
- 3.12 Inter-War Period (c. 1915–c. 1940), 3.17 Mediterranean
- Construction
- 1925/06 -
- Architecture and design features
- Alfred Simpson, Terra Cotta, tower, scalloped exposed rafters
- Engineering features
Location, occupancy & use
- Precinct
- Riverbank
- Council Ward
- Central
- Alternative Addresses
- Geo-coordinates
- Town Acre
- Planning Zone or Policy Area
- Original owners
- Government of South Australia
- Original occupant
- Later occupant/s
- Purposes and use
- Education, School
- AS2482 classification
- 14010 - University
- Public Access
- Business/trading hours
Heritage protection
- NTSA ID
- 3675
- State Heritage ID
- 13652
- ACC Reference No.
- DPTI Heritage No.
- 1524
- RNE ID
- 1524
- Certificate of Title No.
- CT 5968/734 H105100 S737
- NTSA file exists
- Yes
- Heritage Status
- State Heritage listed
- State heritage listing
- State Heritage listed
- Date of State heritage listing
- Local heritage listing
- Date of Local heritage listing
- NTSA listing
- NTSA classified
- Date of NTSA listing
- Section 23 (4) crtiteria
- Risk status
Historic themes
- Historic Themes
- 3.6 Professional Services
- 3.6.4 Teaching
- 7 EDUCATING
- 7.1 Schools
- Topics
- Inter-War Period
Curriculum connections
- Australian Curriculum references
- Year 6: Australia as a Nation
- ACHHK116
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