Adelaide Town Hall

The Adelaide Town Hall is defined by its tall Albert Tower, which rises prominently above a colonnaded facade of freestone and bluestone. Completed in eighteen sixty-six, the building was designed by architects Edmund Wright and Edward Woods following a public competition. Its foundation stone was laid in eighteen sixty-three, and the tower itself became the focus of a unique celebration in November eighteen sixty-five, when a lunch was hosted for guests on the scaffolding near the top of the unfinished structure.