Old Parliament House, Adelaide
Old Parliament House is the former seat of the Parliament of South Australia, located on North Terrace in the Adelaide city centre, and has housed the House of Assembly from 1857 to 1889 and the Legislative Council from 1855 to 1939. It was entered on the South Australian Heritage Register in 1981 and the Australian National Heritage List in 2006. The development of Old Parliament House came about due to the increase in legislative councillors in the 1850s. This is after the passage of the Australian Colonies Government Act 1850 and Ordinance No. 1 of 1851, which increased the number of members of the Legislative Council from 11 to 24. Thereafter, there was a design competition for the construction of a new parliamentary house, which was won by William Bennett Hayes, who was appointed the Colonial Architect in 1852. Construction work had been hindered by the effects of the Victorian gold rush, and consequently, a two-story building was erected by English & Brown from 1854 to 1855. The building was first used by the Legislative Council on 1 November 1855. After the introduction of responsible government and a bicameral legislature through the constitution of South Australia of 1856, additional changes were introduced to cater for the House of Assembly. The existing structure was built on the present site between 1856 and 1857 through the contractor I. W. Perryman, and consequently the bicameral Parliament of South Australia met for the first time on 22 April 1857. Additional extensions and renovations were undertaken in the subsequent decades, which included construction works carried out by architect Edward Woods in 1875–1876, aimed at enlarging the House of Assembly Chamber and creating more offices. Following the erection of the west wing of the new Parliament House in 1889, all the activities of the parliament gradually moved to the new building, except for the Legislative Council, which stayed in the old building until 1939.
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North Terrace, Adelaide Adelaide
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North Terrace
5000 Adelaide, Adelaide
South Australia, Australia
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