Adelaide Club

The Adelaide Club is an exclusive gentlemen's club in the South Australian capital city of Adelaide. Founded in 1863, the club comprises members of the Adelaide establishment.[1]

An earlier club with similar aims and membership was the South Australian Club, founded 1838, who purchased the Victoria Hotel on Hindley Street for their premises.[2] Members included Sturt, Morphett and Fisher.[3][4] Membership was by ballot; joining fee 10 gns., membership 2 gns. per annum.[5] It folded in 1843 after failing financially.[6]

Adelaide Club
Formation1863 (1863)
Location
  • 165 North Terrace
    Adelaide, South Australia
Coordinates34°55′19″S 138°36′00″E

The Club's headquarters are at the Club House on North Terrace in the city-centre. The Club House was built in the same year as the club's establishment, and has been continually occupied since 1864. Facilities include a library, mixed accommodation for members and reciprocal club members, dining rooms, billiards room, function rooms and office facilities.

The equivalent elite club for women, the Queen Adelaide Club, is located a short distance to the east along North Terrace.

Members have included:[7]

In 1980, the club house was listed on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate.[9]

References
  1. Adelaide Club bid to block licence of new rooftop club above Jamie Oliver’s luxury restaurant The Advertiser, 30 May 2014, Accessed 7 November 2015.
  2. "The South Australian Club". The Southern Australian. II (51). South Australia. 22 May 1839. p. 3. Retrieved 4 November 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. "Henry Calton versus South Australian Club". The Southern Australian. IV (263). South Australia. 23 November 1841. p. 4. Retrieved 3 November 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. "Resident Magistrate's Court". The Adelaide Observer. III (156). South Australia. 20 June 1846. p. 4. Retrieved 3 November 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. "South Australia". South Australian Record And Australasian And South African Chronicle. 3 (55). South Australia. 11 July 1840. p. 6. Retrieved 4 November 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. "Advertising". South Australian Register. South Australia. 12 April 1843. p. 2. Retrieved 4 November 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. Dirk van Dissel, ‘The Adelaide Club’, Adelaidia, History SA accessed 20 February 2016
  8. John Huxley and Maryann Stenberg, (26 May 1994), Meanwhile, The Adelaide Club Snores On, Sydney Morning Herald Retrieved 23 February 2016]
  9. "Adelaide Club, 165 North Tce, Adelaide, SA, Australia - listing on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate (Place ID 6403)". Australian Heritage Database. Department of the Environment. 21 October 1980. Retrieved 3 March 2019.


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