Our setting is the suburb of Glenelg in Adelaide, South Australia, during Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee (1887). This coastal suburb, now part of the local government area of the City of Holdfast Bay, is the oldest European settlement on mainland South Australia.

An understanding of Glenelg’s architectural heritage is necessary before we select buildings to inspire our setting. Surviving buildings constructed during or prior to 1887 show style and decorative trim characteristic of their era. They serve as valuable sources of 3D modeling and texture details for their contemporaries that have since been demolished or otherwise destroyed.

State Heritage

The South Australian Heritage Places Database identifies registered items of state heritage in Glenelg North, Glenelg, and Glenelg South. The Colley Reserve Rotunda, the Pioneer Memorial, and the former Glenelg Post Office were all built after 1887 so are excluded as relevant sources of inspiration for our setting.

Heritage numbers in the table below link to the item’s record in the South Australian Heritage Places Database. Construction or other significant dates were determined from heritage surveys. Details, where relevant, link to recent photographs of the item and further historical information.

_{The Government of South Australia, SA Heritage Places Database Search sourced on 18 October 2018,
http://maps.sa.gov.au/heritagesearch/HeritageSearchLocation.aspx}

Local Heritage

The South Australian Heritage Places Database also identifies local heritage registered buildings in Glenelg North, Glenelg, Glenelg East and Glenelg South, including detached and semi-detached dwellings, terrace houses, offices, and shops.

Additional buildings have been identified from heritage surveys, strategies, and policy reviews undertaken by state and local governments since the South Australian Heritage Act, 1978 and its 1993 successor came into force.

The following buildings are of particular interest due to their relevant construction dates.

There are many contributory heritage listed structures, mostly dwellings, across Glenelg North, Glenelg, Glenelg East and Glenelg South that add to the area’s unique historical character. These structures are not under the protection of the Heritage Act, 1993 but many have features common to their missing contemporaries.