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North Terrace Campus

Maintenance Service Centre
Ground Floor, Oliphant Building
The University of Adelaide
SA 5005 Australia

Phone: +61 8 8303 4008
Facsimile: +61 8 8303 4010

Heritage Properties

Barr Smith Library

The University owns numerous heritage listed facilities with the oldest dating back to the mid 1800s. They range in value from $80,000 to over $15 million.

The University’s architectural heritage is of significant cultural value to the campus and to the wider community and plays an important role in the marketing of the University. There is an expectation that the University will maintain these structures in perpetuity for the benefit of the broader community. The University is allocating funds to address heritage building conservation issues.

The North Terrace Campus as the original campus of the University of Adelaide contains the most significant heritage buildings within the University’s property portfolio. They stand at the centre of a remarkable set of heritage buildings stretching half a kilometre along North Terrace from Kintore Avenue along to Frome Road. These buildings include The Institute, State Library Mortlock Wing, SA Museum, Art Gallery of SA, Mitchell Building, Elder Hall, Bonython Hall and the Brookman Building

This particular grouping of buildings is a built environment of national heritage significance. There are also other heritage-listed buildings on the site such as the Barr Smith Library reading room, Hartley Building, Bragg Laboratories and the Union Building Group which comprises the Lady Symon and George Murray wings.

The heritage listed buildings on the North Terrace campus are in daily use for teaching, research, administrative and community purposes. Three major sandstone buildings, Mitchell Building, Elder Hall and Bonython Hall, form the public face of the University and are used extensively for marketing and public relations.

For information about the University's Heritage Conservation Plan contact Facilities Records.

University of Adelaide's Heritage Inventory List