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Summary

New premises for Leopold Conrad (The Austral Stores), side and rear elevations.

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Physical description

Architectural drawing, 89 x 65 cm.

Dates / Publication details

1903

Creator

Conrad, Albert Selmar

Subject

Conrad, Albert Selmar, 1868-1948
Conrad, Leopold, 1839-1918
Waterfall Gully Restaurant (Waterfall Gully, S.A.)
Architects -- South Australia
Architecture -- South Australia -- Designs and plans

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Historical information

Albert Selmar Conrad was born in Adelaide in 1868. Following his schooling Conrad was articled to local architect Daniel Garlick between 1884 and 1889. He then worked under C.E. Owen Smyth in the Works & Buildings Department of the South Australian Government. In 1893 he started his own practice, taking on his younger brother, Frank Herbert Conrad (b.1878), as an articled pupil in 1898. In 1906 Frank was offered a partnership in the practice which became known variously as Conrad & Conrad or A.S. & F.H. Conrad. A.S. Conrad travelled widely, became a Fellow of the South Australian Institute of Architects and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Furthermore he had an interest in town planning and became a member of the South Australian Town Planning Association. Conrad's architectural commissions comprised hotels, residences, ecclesiastical buildings (particularly for the Catholic Church), schools and banks. He worked predominantly in the Gothic or Romanesque style using stone and brick broken up with banding to create a highly decorative appearance, unique among South Australia's architecture of the era. By far the best-known of Conrad's work is the Austral Stores, later known as West's Coffee Palace, Hindley Street, Adelaide (1903). Albert Conrad retired from practice in 1934 and died in 1948. For further background on Albert S. Conrad see Architects of South Australia Database ( www.architectsdatabase.unisa.edu.au ).

Digitisation information

Date

26/06/2006

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

10,780 x 7,717 pixels (83.2 MP)

Size

249.60 MB

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