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35: 45: 19: 27: 100:, four shops had frontages on King William Street and three facing Rundle Street, each 8 ft. (2.4 m) high, with jarrah floors and plastered walls and rear access and one shop 14 ft. (5.3 m) high, all having large plate-glass windows and nickel-plated columns. It was built three storeys above the pavement, and was Gothic in character, each gable finishing with 84:'s shop opened by Brewer and Robertson from October 1849 then J.V.B. Ryley from 1850 to 1858, followed by Israel Simmons (ca.1831 – 9 June 1893) who ran the shop until 1886, when his business, with many others, failed. According to one reference it had a beehive motif on the glass door portrayed in gold leaf. Nearby tenants included 117:
granite. Sliding shutters were fitted to the windows facing King William Street, with a handsome iron verandah made by Fulton & Co. The sills of the windows facing Rundle Street were fitted with a small iron railing. The architects were
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between them. At the main angle an ornamental turret was corbelled out, surmounted by a gilded beehive and bee and on the shaft of the turret the words 'Beehive Corner 1895' among foliage. The piers dividing the shopfronts were of
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the well-known architect, William Ekins the gunsmith and James Allen's printing shop. The name is even older – archivist G. H. Pitt found the name was chosen by the original owners to denote a busy trading centre.
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Forgotten today, but once a familiar landmark, "Stump's Corner", directly across King William Street from the Beehive Corner, was an earlier
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For over a century, "Meet you at the Beehive Corner" has been a common phrase among Adelaideans when nominating a meeting-place in the city.
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This corner hosted a succession of photographers: Melbourne Photographic Company to 1885, then (briefly)
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were built for the owner, Henry Martin to replace the antiquated structure. In the new design by
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It had been a well-known landmark for fifty years in 1895 when what is essentially the present
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Painter, Alison (1990). Marsden, Susan; Stark, Paul; Sumerling, Patricia (eds.).
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In 1950 the prime corner section of the complex was sold to confectioner
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At night, looking east towards Rundle Mall from King William Street
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John Venables Ball Ryley and William Moore were in partnership
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were refurbished in 1998 by the firm of Harrold and Kite.
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Waterhouse Chambers survives little changed in 2013
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Adelaide city centre
King William Street
Rundle Street
railway station
draper
Edmund Wright
George Klewitz Soward
crockets
finial
balustrades
Palmer
English & Soward
C. A. Haigh
Haigh's Chocolates
neo-Gothic
tourelle
Alfred Stump
Emanuel Cohen
"Suspected Suicide in the Botanic Park"
The Advertiser
"Advertising"
South Australian Chronicle and Weekly Mail
"Jubilee of South Australian Journalism"
South Australian Register
"13 April 1895 Beehive Corner"
"Illustrated article"

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