Rose Park is a suburb with a population of 1,374 in the

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n capital city of

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. It is located east of Adelaide's central business district. Rose Park is a leafy, tree-lined and wealthy inner suburb containing a number of historical and contemporary attractions. Much of the area's 19th-century housing stock has been recognised with heritage protection. Part of the Burnside Council, it is bounded to the north by

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, to the east by Prescott Terrace, to the south by Dulwich Avenue and to the west by

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. The area is mainly residential in nature, with commercial buildings along Fullarton Road, Kensington Road, and Dulwich Avenue. This places it on the very edge of the

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, bordering

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History

Laid out in 1878 on part section 262,

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by the

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. Named after Sir John Rose, chairman of the company for fourteen years in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Rose Park Post Office opened on 1 October 1946 but was renamed ''Norwood South'' in 1966.

Heritage-listed buildings

The Gartrell Memorial Church, located on Prescott Terrace between Alexandra and Grant Avenues, was designed in 1914 by architect

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in the Gothic Revival style when he was in the architectural practice of

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, and built as a

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church in 1915. Jory also designed the Gartrell Memorial Schoolroom. The church and its hall were state heritage-listed in November 1989, with the hall estimated to be built at a later date, probably 1925. The church was named after James Gartrell, who was a parishioner and benefactor. He paid for the pipe organ and contributed generously to its building.

Residents

In the , the population of the Rose Park was 1,374 people. This compares with 2,663 in 2001 (when the census area included adjoining

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) with a very slight decrease in population between the 1996 and 2001 censuses.Community Profile for Dulwich/Rose Park
City of Burnside In the , the population of the Rose Park (without Dulwich) was 1,293 people. In 2016 there were 352 families in 615 private dwellings, with a median weekly household income of . Notable residents include

Albert Fryar Albert Edmund Fryar (2 December 1875 – 23 July 1944) was a noted South Australian philatelist and sportsman.

and Andrew Fairweather.

Education

Rose Park Primary School Rose Park Primary School is a coeducational R–7 school (5- to 13-year-olds) located in the Adelaide inner suburb of Rose Park. The school is located at 54 Alexandra Avenue and occupies the land between Alexandra and Grant Avenues. It is one of ...

is located in Rose Park. The Adelaide Japanese Community School, Inc. (ACJS; アデレード日本語補習授業校 ''Aderēdo Nihongo Hoshū Jugyō Kō''), a part-time Japanese educational programme, holds its classes in Rose Park Primary School.

Politics

, Rose Park is part of the state

electoral district of Dunstan Dunstan is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly, covering the inner eastern suburbs of Beulah Park, College Park, Evandale, Firle, Hackney, Joslin, Kensington, Kensington Park, Kensington Gardens ...

, which has since March 2018 has been held by Steven Marshall, also

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. In federal politics, the suburb has been part of the

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since 20 July 2018, and has been represented by

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MP James Stevens since the 2019 election. Rose Park formerly in the

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) and was, from 2004 until her retirement in 2019, represented by

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MP Kate Ellis.

References and notes

External links

Rose Park Primary School
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