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Queen's College was a privately owned and run school for boys on Barton Terrace, North Adelaide. It ran continuously from 1891 to 1949, an Australian record for a proprietary boys' school. History
State Heritage Place. Established as Queen's School in 1874 in Jeffcott Street, the School later became known as Queen's College. It closed in 1949. The school reflects aspects of the development and change in private school education.
- School Management
- Scholars
- School Closure
- Architecture
- Significance
The school began in ad hoc fashion in 1897. Christ Church School building in Jeffcott Street was let for school use to Miss Miller in 1879 and then to a series of ministers between 1880 and 1891, the last, Reverent T. Field (1883-91), selling the goodwill to Messrs Lindon and Heineman who were to open Queen’s School. Queen’s School maintained a con...
By 1928 former pupils had gained six Rhodes scholarships and several other old scholars had gained acclaim in their field of knowledge. These old scholars included Professor Walter Duffield, the first director of the Commonwealth Observatory in Canberra, Dr Grenfell Price, and the physicist Sir William Lawrence Bragg who was the youngest-ever Nobel...
In common with most other private schools during the Depression, Queen’s College suffered heavily in the 1930s. Although it survived until 1949, the school simply could not overcome the major financial obstacle of minimum enrolments, and the school was eventually closed and sold. Memorabilia such as school honour rolls, cricket shields and scholars...
This purpose-built school building which included classrooms and laboratories was designed in 1892 by F.J. Naish, architect of Elder Hall at the University of Adelaide (see PL27) and Ambassadors Hotel in King William Street (see CBD26). Naish’s tender notice ‘… for the erection of Queen’s School, Barton Terrace’ appeared in the South Australia Regi...
The house is an important contributory element on Barton Terrace because of its domestic scale and style. It reinforces the essential residential character of the streetscape.
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Students and staff of Queen's College, Barton Terrace, North Adelaide, 1928.
History of Queen's College North Adelaide 1883-1949. Brian Edward O'Connor. University of Adelaide, Graduate School of Education, 2002 - Education - 224 pages. Presents the history of...
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This dissertation is a study of the proprietary boys' schools in early South Australia and especially Queen's school, North Adelaide. In response to a request from the Queen's College Old Boys' Ass...
