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Archer Street [B 10496] • Photograph

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Summary

Archer Street, south side, May 21st 1941, frontage of the house is 28 yards. The near side is in line with the western alignment of Cambridge Street. This building was erected in 1940 and housed Melrose House for the Blind. It was built in honour of pastoralist and local government councillor Sir John Melrose who, himself went blind. According to a researcher, the room with a bay window to the left was a formal sitting room. 'On entering at the central doors, one walked through to a linoleum-floored dining room. (Congoleum-floored, perhaps.) At December 2019, the dining room space still exists. I believe that a kitchen was behind the dining room. After entering the central doors, a corridore to the right took one to individual residents' small rooms. Rooms were fitted with a small, built-in cupboard and a heavy, white steel-tubed single bed.'

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Physical description

photograph

Dates / Publication details

1941

Photographer

State Library of South Australia

Collection

Part of Acre 790 Collection

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Date

21/12/2005

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Resolution

3,522 x 2,145 pixels (7.6 MP)

Size

7.59 MB

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