{{short description|Street running east-west across Adelaide city centre}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2014}} {{Infobox Australian road | type = street | road_name = Grenfell Street | state = sa | city = [[Adelaide city centre]] | urban = yes | image = (AUS-South Australia) Grenfell Street, Adelaide 2025-12-13.jpg | caption = Grenfell Street, looking east from [[King William Street, Adelaide|King William Street]] | length = 1.0 | length_ref = <ref name="gmaps">{{google maps |url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir/-34.9243242,138.5996767/-34.923804,138.610991/@-34.9244371,138.6031703,17.03z/data=!4m2!4m1!3e0 |title=Grenfell Street | access-date=1 June 2022}}</ref> | est = 1837 | direction_a = West | direction_b = East | mapframe = no | coordinates_a = {{coord|-34.924371|138.599638|type:landmark_region:AU-SA|display=inline}} | coordinates_b = {{coord|-34.923804|138.610991|type:landmark_region:AU-SA|display=inline}} | pushpin_label_position_a = left | pushpin_label_position_b = right | alternative_location_map = Australia South Australia City of Adelaide <!--or Australia Greater Adelaide--> | end_a = '''[[King William Street, Adelaide|King William Street]]'''<br />{{small|[[Adelaide]]}} | end_b = '''[[East Terrace]]'''<br />{{small|[[Adelaide]]}} | exits = {{plainlist| *[[Hindmarsh Square]] *[[Pulteney Street]] *[[Frome Street]]}} | lga = [[City of Adelaide]] }} '''Grenfell Street''' ({{coord|34.924|S|138.602|E}}) is a major street in the north-east quarter of the [[Adelaide city centre]], [[South Australia]].<ref>{{cite book |title=2003 Adelaide Street Directory, 41st Edition |publisher=UBD (A Division of Universal Press Pty Ltd) |year=2003 |isbn=0-7319-1441-4}}</ref> The street runs west-east from [[King William Street, Adelaide|King William Street]] to [[East Terrace]]. Its intersection with [[Pulteney Street]] is formed by [[Hindmarsh Square]]. On the west side of King William Street, it continues as [[Currie Street]] towards West Terrace. ==Naming== Grenfell Street was named after [[Pascoe St Leger Grenfell]], a [[Cornishman|Cornish]] businessman and member of the [[South Australian Church Society]]. His significant donation of an acre of land on [[North Terrace, Adelaide|North Terrace]] was used for the construction of the [[Holy Trinity Church, Adelaide|Holy Trinity Church]] — one of the first churches built in the city.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.historysouthaustralia.net/STlist2.htm#gre| title=History of Adelaide Through Street Names - Streets Named on the 23rd May, 1837: Grenfell Street|access-date=2009-11-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090219093302/http://historysouthaustralia.net/STlist2.htm#gre|archive-date=19 February 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> Grenfell also donated another {{convert|40|acres}} of country land for the use of the church as [[glebe]] lands. This land later became the suburb of [[Trinity Gardens]].
==Description== [[File:Adelaide CBD developments.jpg|thumb|Corner Grenfell Street & [[Hindmarsh Square]], looking SW]] [[File:Grenfell Street, Adelaide in the 1930s.jpg|thumb|Grenfell Street, 1930s]] Grenfell Street runs from [[King William Street, Adelaide|King William Street]] to [[East Terrace]]. It is one of the intermediate-width streets of the Adelaide grid, at {{convert|1+1/2|ch|lk=in}} wide.
On the west side of King William Street, the western continuation of Grenfell Street is Currie Street, named after [[Raikes Currie]], a member of the [[South Australian Association]] and [[South Australian Company]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://historysouthaustralia.net/STlist1.htm| title=History of Adelaide Through Street Names - Streets Named on the 23rd May, 1837: Currie Street|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090506212546/http://historysouthaustralia.net/STlist1.htm#cur|archive-date=6 May 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>
The section of the street which runs parallel to [[Rundle Mall]] (west of Hindmarsh Square) on the northern side features many retail outlets, as well as the southern entrances of many of the arcades, side-streets, and eateries of the mall. The southern side is populated mainly by office buildings, including the [[Grenfell Centre]] ("the Black Stump") at no. 25.<ref>{{cite web | title=Grenfell Centre | website=Emporis | date=11 May 2015 | url=http://www.emporis.com/buildings/108719/grenfell-centre-adelaide-australia | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150511124809/http://www.emporis.com/buildings/108719/grenfell-centre-adelaide-australia | archive-date=11 May 2015 | url-status=usurped | access-date=22 April 2023}}</ref>
A dedicated [[bus lane]] runs the whole length of both Grenfell and Currie Streets, limiting private vehicles to one lane for most of its length, and carrying nearly all bus traffic traversing the city in an east–west direction. At the eastern end of Grenfell, a dedicated bus track carries buses across East Terrace into the [[O-Bahn Busway|O-Bahn]] tunnel under [[Rymill Park]].
The eastern end is occupied on the south side by the [[Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute]], an art and cultural museum also used as a venue for the [[Adelaide Fringe]] and other events, and on the north side by the [[East End Markets]] redevelopment.
==Former buildings== ===Central Hall/Queen's Hall/Embassy Ballroom=== <!---several redirects target this section. If you change the heading, please ensure that all redirects are changed too.---> Central Hall, at no. 102a Grenfell, was built by a Mrs Phillipson, of [[Glenelg, South Australia| Glenelg]], for the use of the [[Adelaide German Club]] (''Allgemeiner Deutscher Verein'') in 1894, opening in June of that year.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article200776222 |title=S.A. Allgemeiner Deutscher Verein. |newspaper=[[Evening Journal (Adelaide)]] |volume=XXVI |issue=7381 |location=South Australia |date=15 June 1894 |access-date=10 January 2023 |page=3 (Second Edition) |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref> It was subsequently used for a variety of community events (many unrelated to the club), for around 20 years. [[Charles Cawthorne]] took over the lease and reopened it Queen's Hall on 7 August 1915. Its use turned to performances, mainly concerts, [[opera]]s, dramas, and fundraisers for [[World War I]], and it also hosted occasional [[variety show]]s. Its use as a theatre diminished from 1923, and by 1929 it was operating as a [[dance hall]]. The building was partially destroyed by fire on 4 November 1929, and it fell into disuse until it was refurbished and reopened in 1933 as the Embassy Ballroom, which had an [[Art Deco architecture|Art Deco]] facade. In the 1950s it was converted into a cinema, first called the Plaza Theatre and renamed Paris Cinema in 1965. It was later demolished and [[Regent Arcade]] built on the site.<ref>{{cite web | title=Theatres/Venues 4a: Adelaide | website=Australian Variety Theatre Archive | date=18 April 2014 | url=https://ozvta.com/theatres-sa/ | access-date=10 January 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Queen's Hall in Grenfell Street (1933)| format=photo + caption| website=[[State Library of South Australia]] | url=https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+6398 | access-date=10 January 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=The Embassy Ballroom, Grenfell Street, 1935 | format=photo + caption| website=Flickr | url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/state_library_south_australia/17163169072/ | access-date=10 January 2023}}</ref>
==Heritage-listed buildings== [[File:East Tce power station.jpg|thumb|Adelaide Electric Supply Co. power station, East Tce, c.1926]] ===Grenfell Street Power Station=== On the corner of Grenfell Street and East Terrace there is the old [[Grenfell Street Power Station]] building. Much of the building now houses the [[Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute]], facing Grenfell Street, which was [[heritage-listed]] on the [[SA Heritage Register]] in November 1984,<ref>{{cite web |website=SA Heritage Places Database Search| title=Heritage Places 241-259 Grenfell Street Adelaide| url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/heritagesearch/HeritageItem.aspx?p_heritageno=1334 | access-date=23 December 2020}}</ref> while the old [[converter station]]s face East Terrace. A "Historic Engineering Plaque" is located on a ground level [[plinth]] just east of the north-east corner of the Tandanya building, which was dedicated by the [[Institution of Engineers, Australia]], the [[Electricity Trust of South Australia]] and the [[Adelaide City Council]] on 6 April 1995.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://portal.engineersaustralia.org.au/system/files/engineering-heritage-australia/report-title/Grenfell_Street_Power_Station_Report.pdf|title=Historic Engineering Marker at the Grenfell Power and East Terrace Converter Stations (Issue 2)|author=[[Institution of Engineers, Australia]]. SA Division. Engineering Heritage Branch |date=17 July 1996}}</ref>
===Pubs=== * The Producers Hotel (formerly Old Exchange Hotel, Producers Club Hotel, Woodman's Inn), at no. 233-235,<ref name=search/> was built on the site of the first pub built and licensed in the East End, the Woodman, in 1839.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.liquidhistory.com.au/Publications/EastEnd.pdf| title=The East End Historic Pub-crawl}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article195859560 |title=Advertising |newspaper=[[Adelaide Chronicle and South Australian Advertiser]] |volume=I |issue=IV |location=South Australia |date=31 December 1839 |accessdate=18 April 2024 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71685171 |title=Advertising |newspaper=[[Southern Australian]] |volume=II |issue=43 |location=South Australia |date=27 March 1839 |access-date=18 April 2024 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref> It was first licensed by John Ragless Jr, and so named because it was the first stop for timber merchants carting timber from "the Tiers" (as the [[Adelaide Hills]] were called).<ref name=info1996/> In 1900 it was renamed the Electric Light, after the power station. It was rebuilt for the [[South Australian Brewing Company]] in [[Queen Anne style architecture|Queen Anne style]] in 1906 as the Producers.<ref name=explorer>{{cite web | title=Woodman's Inn/Producers Hotel | website=Adelaide City Explorer | url=https://adelaidecityexplorer.com.au/items/show/68 | access-date=18 April 2024}}</ref> It was listed on the SA Heritage Register on 5 April 1984.<ref>{{cite web | title=The Producers Hotel (former Old Exchange Hotel, former Producers Club Hotel) | website=Experience Adelaide | date=16 September 2019 | url=https://www.experienceadelaide.com.au/heritage-places/the-producers-hotel-former-old-exchange-hotel-233-235-grenfell-street-adelaide/ | access-date=18 April 2024}}</ref> After the East End markets moved away in 1986, the hotel became the East End Exchange Hotel for a short while before being renamed the Woodman's Inn in the mid-1990s.<ref name=explorer/><ref name=info1996>{{cite web| url=https://d31atr86jnqrq2.cloudfront.net/heritage-places/heritage-place-information-sheet-233-237-grenfell-street.pdf| title=Woodmans Inn (Former Producers Hotel)| date=1996| quote=The text in this Information Sheet was copied from the ''Heritage of the City of Adelaide: An Illustrated Guide'' (1996).|publisher= [[City of Adelaide]]}}</ref> It became a major venue for live music of many genres,<ref>{{cite web | title=Producers Hotel | website= OnlyAdelaide | url=https://www.onlyadelaide.com.au/producers-hotel | access-date=18 April 2024}}</ref> under its later name, the Producer's Bar, known simply as "The Producers".<ref>{{cite web | last=Dexter | first=John | title=A Guide to Adelaide's Pub Heritage | website=The Adelaide Review | date=21 April 2016 | url=https://www.adelaidereview.com.au/latest/news/2016/04/21/guide-adelaides-pub-heritage/ | access-date=18 April 2024}}</ref> It also hosted [[Adelaide Fringe]] events, until its closure in 2018.<ref>{{cite web | title=Adelaide Fringe at The Producers | website=Facebook | url=https://www.facebook.com/ProducersFringe/ | access-date=18 April 2024}}</ref> It was functioning mainly as a nightclub in 2022,<ref>{{cite web | title=‘They’re going to complain’: Apartments squeeze city music pubs |first=Thomas |last=Kelsall | website=[[InDaily]] | date=12 July 2022 | url=https://www.indaily.com.au/news/local/2022/07/12/theyre-going-to-complain-apartments-squeeze-city-music-pubs | access-date=18 April 2024}}</ref> with a large knife fight reported in March of that year.<ref>{{cite web | title=Stabbing victim in critical condition as anti-gang police investigate large fight at Adelaide pub | website=ABC News | date=13 March 2022 | url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-13/police-investigate-fight-at-grenfell-street-hotel/100906326 | access-date=18 April 2024}}</ref> In 2023 it was known as Friday's Lounge.<ref>{{cite web | title=Friday's Lounge | website=Facebook | url=https://www.facebook.com/fridayslounge235/ | access-date=18 April 2024}}</ref> * [[The Griffins Hotel]], built 1886, on the corner of Grenfell Street and Hindmarsh Square (address 40 Hindmarsh Square), is state heritage-listed.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://d31atr86jnqrq2.cloudfront.net/heritage-places/heritage-place-information-sheet-40-hindmarsh-square.pdf| title= Griffins Head Hotel |series=Heritage of the City of Adelaide| quote=The text in this Information Sheet was copied from the City of Adelaide Heritage Study, October 1990, Volume One, part of a review of the City of Adelaide Plan 1986-1991.|author= [[City of Adelaide]] |access-date=6 June 2022}}</ref> * [[Crown and Anchor Hotel]], cnr Grenfell/Union (built 1879;<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article43108905 |title=Building Improvements during 1879. |newspaper=[[South Australian Register]] |volume=XLV |issue=10,338 |location=South Australia |date=2 January 1880 |access-date=17 April 2024 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Crown and Anchor Hotel | website=SA History Hub |first=Hannah|last=Stewart | url=https://sahistoryhub.history.sa.gov.au/places/crown-and-anchor-hotel | access-date=24 December 2020}}</ref> extensive alterations in 1929;<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.unisa.edu.au/contentassets/8fabb302c15b465a9c917b32480dd2c5/milne-fk-22-2017.pdf|title=Milne, F. Kenneth Collection |date=6 September 2017 |publisher= Architecture Museum, [[University of South Australia]]| p=20 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article129259047 |title=Money in hotels |newspaper=[[The News (Adelaide)]] |volume=XII |issue=1,778 |location=South Australia |date=27 March 1929 |access-date=17 April 2024 |page=13 (Home edition) |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref> local heritage-listing in 2001,<ref>{{cite web | title=196-198 Grenfell Street (also known as 35-39 Union Street) Adelaide | website=Experience Adelaide | date=16 September 2019 | url=https://www.experienceadelaide.com.au/heritage-places/crown-anchor-hotel-196-198-grenfell-street-35-39-union-street-adelaide/ | access-date=17 April 2024}}</ref> facade only<ref>{{cite web | title=Student accommodation development proposed for Crown & Anchor | website=[[The Note (magazine)|The Note]] | date=22 March 2024 | url=https://www.thenote.com.au/news/crown-and-anchor-under-threat-from-developers | access-date=17 April 2024}}</ref>) [[File:Wiggs Building B-10365.jpg|thumb|E. S. Wigg & Son stationers and adjoining buildings, 1922]]
===Other historic buildings=== Other state heritage-listed buildings in Grenfell Street include:<ref name=search>{{cite web | title=Heritage Places: Search By Keywords - grenfell AND adelaide| website=SA Heritage Places Database Search| url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/heritagesearch/SearchResultPage.aspx?p_searchtype=KEYWORD&p_operator=AND&p_keyword1=grenfell&p_keyword2=adelaide&p_keyword3=&p_keyword4=&p_keyword5=&p_keyword6= | access-date=23 December 2020}}</ref> * Parts of the former [[Adelaide Fruit and Produce Exchange]] facing the street * [[British & Foreign Bible Society]] office (Bertram Hall) * Executor Trustee Office, no. 22 * [[Tattersalls (gambling organisation)|Tattersalls]] Building, 10-14 * Ferrari House (former [[Eagle Star Insurance]] Building), 28-30 * Former [[Alliance Assurance Company]] Building, 18
Other local heritage-listed buildings include:<ref name=search/> * [[Wiggs Building]] (former home of stationers [[E. S. Wigg & Son]]<ref name=heritage>{{cite web | title=Wiggs' Building - 63-69 Grenfell Street Adelaide | website=City of Adelaide | date=19 August 2020 | url=https://explore.cityofadelaide.com.au/heritage-places/wiggs-building-63-69-grenfell-street-adelaide/ | access-date=24 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://d31atr86jnqrq2.cloudfront.net/heritage-places/heritage-place-information-sheet-63-69-grenfell-street.pdf?mtime=20200123101035&focal=none|title=Wiggs Building, 63-69 Grenfell Street |author=City of Adelaide|series=Heritage of the City of Adelaide}}</ref>) * Wyatt House, 113-119 * Warehouse, 121-127 * Hindmarsh Buildings, 134-140
==Transport changes== In July 2012, dedicated bus lanes were introduced along the full length of Grenfell Street in both directions, in operation from 7am to 7pm each weekday. When operational, [[taxi]]s, [[cyclist]]s and [[emergency vehicle]]s are also able to use the lane, but private vehicles can only travel up to {{convert|100|m}} in the bus lane.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200227202823/https://www.dpti.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/80011/Priority_Bus_Lane_Project_-_A3_fact_sheet_-_May_2012.pdf Installation of bus priority lanes Grenfell Street, Currie Street & East Terrace] [[Department of Planning, Transport & Infrastructure]] May 2012</ref><ref>Adelaide bus lanes ''[[Australian Bus]]'' issue 53 September 2012 page 6</ref>
In December 2016, after the [[O-Bahn Busway|O-Bahn]] extension tunnel was built underneath [[Rymill Park]] at the eastern end of the street, buses formerly routed along [[North Terrace, Adelaide|North Terrace]] were permanently routed along Grenfell (although they had been temporarily diverted from North Terrace via East Terrace, since construction of the [[Botanic Line]] of the [[Adelaide trams]] had begun in early October that year).<ref>{{cite web | title=Hundreds more O-Bahn buses to hit "deteriorating" Grenfell St | website=InDaily |first=Bension|last=Siebert| date=8 December 2017 | url=https://indaily.com.au/news/local/2017/12/08/hundreds-o-bahn-buses-hit-deteriorating-grenfell-st/ | access-date=22 December 2020}}</ref> After this, nearly all buses travelling in an east–west direction across the city use Grenfell.<ref>{{cite web | last=Brennan | first=Ben | title=Confusion reigns as bus routes change | website=adelaidenow | date=18 December 2017 | url=https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/adelaide-bus-changes-timetable-change-leaves-commuter-confused-as-obahn-opening-rolls-on/news-story/59619f545b00a4d06d1fde8350c95b48 | access-date=22 December 2020}}</ref>
==Junction list== {{AUSinttop|noLGA=yes|length_ref=<ref name="gmaps" />}} {{SAint |location_special=[[Adelaide city centre]] |lspan=6 |type= |km=0 |road= [[King William Street, Adelaide|King William Street]] |notes=Continues as [[Currie Street]] }} {{SAint |type= |km=0.2 |road=[[Gawler Place]] |notes= }} {{SAint |type= |km=.55 |road=[[Pulteney Street]] |notes= }} {{SAint |type= |km=.75 |road=[[Frome Street]] |notes= }} {{SAint |type= |km=1.0 |road=[[East Terrace]] |notes=Continues as the bus-only [[O-Bahn Busway]] tunnel under the [[Adelaide Park Lands]] }} {{Jctbtm}}
==See also== {{portal-inline|Australian Roads}}
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Adelaide CBD Streets}} {{commons category|Grenfell Street, Adelaide|Grenfell Street}}
[[Category:Streets in Adelaide]]