Pirie Street

History and notable buildings

Pirie Street was named after Sir John Pirie, Lord Mayor of London and a founding director of the South Australian Company.

The Pirie Street Methodist Church was located on the site that is now the Adelaide Town Hall office building, with the 1862 Methodist Meeting Hall (see below) behind.

The Adelaide City Council headquarters are on Pirie Street.

The Pirie Street Brewery, later known as Adelaide Brewery, occupied a number of buildings down Wyatt Street, as well as no. 113 Pirie, which was occupied by the Hill Smith Gallery from July 1983 for 37 years. While no. 113 has not been heritage-listed, the other brewery buildings in Wyatt street were listed on the South Australian Heritage Register on 20 November 1986.

Buildings which are heritage-listed at state level are:

• the Queen's Chambers at no. 19
• the Old Methodist Meeting Hall at no. 25
• Darlington House offices, formerly the Salvation Army's People's Palace, where Archie Roach met Ruby Hunter), and before that the original German Club building (1879)
• the old Tivoli Hotel at no.248 (state and local listing)

Other buildings which are heritage-listed as of local heritage interest are:

• The Epworth Building at 31–35 Pirie Street was built in 1926 as a commercial property for the Methodist Church. Designed by the architectural practice of English and Soward, it is listed among 120 nationally significant 20th-century buildings in South Australia.
• A 1920s façade of the former Bank of South Australia at no. 51; however, in August 2020, developers were given permission to demolish the whole building ahead of the construction of a new Hyatt Regency Adelaide Hotel

Film location

In March 2019 a section of Pirie Street was closed for the day and transformed to represent Cape Town in the 1970s, for filming of the thriller film Escape from Pretoria, starring Daniel Radcliffe.

Junction list

Transportation

Pirie Street is also the location of a stop on the Glenelg tram line.

Tram_stop

References

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