Auburn in the Clare Valley.The Rising Sun Hotel. It was established in 1851. This building from the 1880s. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Auburn in the Clare Valley.The Rising Sun Hotel. It was established in 1851. This building from the 1880s. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Auburn.William Tateham (or Tatum) established himself on the Wakefield River where the town of Auburn is now located. These early settlers soon had annual occupation licenses for the land. The land was finally surveyed and put up for auction in 1849 by the government as at that time they were establishing a bullock dray route from Burra to Port Wakefield to cart the copper to a port. An Adelaide surveyor planned the route from Burra to Port Wakefield with nine selected stopovers along the way for the bullocks and their drivers. The stopovers had to have suitable water and pasture. Speculators then moved in to establish villages at these stopover points, which were one day’s travel apart. Auburn township was surveyed and registered in 1850, and the first allotments were sold to teamsters, storekeepers, clergy, a teacher, and a number of tradesmen including a blacksmith. Many of these first settlers came from Burra.The first hotel, the Rising Sun Inn was opened in 1851, but it would have been nothing more than a bush hut in those days. The copper route to Port Wakefield only lasted until the railway from Adelaide reached Gawler in 1857, and after that boom period, Auburn reverted to a rural service centre. Yet it was a prosperous agricultural area and many fine buildings were erected in the town. It grew partly because it was on the main road north to Clare and Burra. One particular person influenced many of the buildings in town, and that was Joseph Meller, a stonemason who quarried local sand stone, and was contracted to build a number of the town’s major structures. Most of the solid buildings still standing date from the period when Meller was active in the 1860s and 1870s. The closure of the Burra mine in 1870 meant that the town “stood still” for much of the next century, but the legacy of fine buildings is still here for us to appreciate. Here are details on some fine stone Auburn structures.1. Anglican Church. Up the street by the Rising Sun Hotel you will find more of Mellor’s Handiwork:- the Post Office (1862), the former Courthouse (1860), and beyond, the fine Anglican Church. St John’s Anglican was opened in 1862, after costing £800 to build. It is built of blue stone with local sandstone quoins and window arches. This fine Gothic church is unusual in that the main entrance is on the southern side (instead of the usual western side). Mellor, the stonemason, consider his stone window surrounds his finest work. 2. Town Hall. The Institute-Town Hall was built in a number of stages although the main hall was erected in 1866.This original section, which faces on to the Main North Road, was made of Meller stone. The pediment above the doors has an interesting metal vent, and there is fine stonework decoration around the upper windows. This façade is somewhat ruined by a more modern concrete porch. The more interesting part of the building is the 1888 addition, which faces onto King Street. It has a fine bay window and ornate parapet above. It was primarily built to serve as a library and institute for the local community. The 1970s red brick addition on the corner of the Town Hall site is completely out of character with the rest of the building and should be demolished. 3. Former Corn Mart- now CWA. Another building built by Mr Meller. It was built as a corn market in 1878 for William Barkla. It is a fine stone building but not built square to the main road. The CWA bought it in 1949 .4. Former boot Factory – now an accommodation site. This attractive two-story building was a later addition for Auburn, as it was not erected until about 1880. Nevertheless it was still built in a Georgian style, with square windows on the upper floor, and small paned shop style windows on the ground floor. Above the veranda is a small pediment to the street, and the street frontage is in warm sandstone from the Meller quarry. The rear walls have a limestone base. Note the fanlights above the shop doors, and that the building is not square to the main road. Vestiges of a painted Shell advertising sign on the Church Street wall are still visible. Daniel Smith, a boot maker, purchased the property in 1884. |
| 撮影日 | 2024-04-28 15:05:45 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX90V , SONY |
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| 開放F値 | f/4.5 |