The St Peters Town Hall is an Australian
heritage-listed
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town hall
In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre (in the UK or Australia), guildhall, or a municipal building (in the Philippines), is the chief administrative building of a city, town, or other municipality. It usually houses ...
located at 101 Payneham Rd, St Peters SA. St Peters is an eastern suburb in Adelaide. It was built in 1927 in the
Inter-War
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Free Classical architectural style by architects J. Campbell & Son, and replaced the 1878 St Peters Town Hall, which was located on the
Princes Highway
Princes Highway is a major road in Australia, extending from Sydney via Melbourne to Adelaide through the states of New South Wales, Victoria (Australia), Victoria and South Australia. It has a length of (along Highway 1) or via the former ...
and was resumed by the state government in 1926 for road-widening. The Town Hall was the seat of
St Peters Municipal Council from 1927 to 1948 and from 1949 was a branch library and community hall of the
Municipality of Marrickville, which absorbed St Peters.
First Town Hall, 1878–1929
Second St Peters Town Hall
Designed by J. Campbell & Son, the foundation stone of the town hall was laid by Deputy Mayor Edward Burrows on 16 April 1927. Completed to a cost of
£7000, the hall was officially opened by the mayor, George Rowswell, on 3 December 1927.
Heritage listing and conservation
The Town Hall and its interiors was first listed in 2001 under the Marrickville Local Environment Plan (updated 2011) as "one of the last buildings which commemorates the old Municipality of St Peters."
Gallery
File:St Peters Town Hall, Sydney, 10 June 2016.jpg, June 2016
See also
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List of town halls in Sydney
This is a list of Town Halls in Sydney, Australia, with local municipality listed after it. Its main town hall is the Sydney City Hall.
* Alexandria
* Annandale
* Balmain
* Botany
* Darlington
* Erskineville
* Glebe
* Granville
* Hornsby
* ...
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Architecture of Sydney
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References
External links
St Peters Town Hall– Inner West Council
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Government buildings completed in 1927
1927 establishments in Australia
Town halls in Sydney
Art Deco architecture in Sydney
Inner West