Flinders Street is a main street in the

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. It runs from the northern end of Victoria Square to

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. It is one of the intermediate-width streets of the Adelaide grid, at wide.Map
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and the

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History

The street is named after the

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and

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Captain

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. On 22 November 1878 the East Adelaide Model School, later Flinders Street Public School or Flinders Street Model School, was opened in large bluestone buildings designed by E. J. Woods. A primary school occupied the premises until 1969, when the Flinders Street Adult Education Centre was established there. In 1978 it became the Flinders St School of Music, a campus of

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. Many churches were built on Flinders Street in the 1860s and 1870s, and several survive today. In August 2022, the

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renamed a laneway off Flinders Street, behind

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, Paul Kelly Lane. Previously named Pilgrim Lane after the adjacent church, the lane is now called Paul Kelly Lane. It is the fourth such renaming after musicians associated with the city, the others being Sia Furler, No Fixed Address, and

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Historic buildings

Churches

churches on Flinders Street include: * Bethlehem Lutheran Church, at no. 170, on the corner of Sudholz Place * Flinders Street Baptist Church, at no. 65; includes manse, now Baptist Church Offices, and Mead Hall; all heritage-listed. *

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, at no. 12

Other historic buildings

*Flinders Hall, originally built as school accommodation for St Paul's Church of England, sold to Hamilton Laboratories in the 1950s *Observatory House, at no. 84–86, originally built for a scientific instrument-making business run by Otto Boettger, who emigrated to South Australia from Germany in 1877 *Office of Multi-Cultural Affairs, originally the

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of the Stow Memorial Church (now Pilgrim), used as a sanitarium 1901–1911. before being sold to the

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*St Paul's Church, built 1972, known as a

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church, whose congregation included many prominent families; converted into a nightclub during the 1980s; now St Paul's Creative Centre, accommodating people working in the arts and creative industries

The Jade

The Jade is a well-known music venue, located at 142-160 Flinders Street, in the heritage-listed St Paul's Rectory. Operating from 2002 as the Jade Monkey, it lost its home at 29 Twin Street in September 2012 after their lease was terminated, and after a public campaign, Pozible crowdfunding, and some help from Adelaide City Council and the

, the owners, Naomi and Zac Coligan, reopened the new venue as The Jade in the rectory of St Paul's. The owners collaborate on musical projects with their neighbours in St Paul's Creative Space, and the venue has a large garden where there is a cafe. In 2018 they contracted a

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History

Historic buildings

Churches

Other historic buildings

The Jade

Junction list

See also

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