Adelaide Street, Brisbane

By May 1873 there was a Primitive Methodist Church in Adelaide Street.{{cite news|date=24 May 1873|title=ADELAIDE.|page=2|newspaper=The Telegraph|issue=203|location=Queensland, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article169489157|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=17 September 2021}}File:BrisbaneTramsAdelaideSt1954.jpg.]]

Under the provisions of the City of Brisbane Improvement Act 1916 and the Local Authorities Act Amendment Act 1923 the Brisbane City Council contributed significantly to the 1920s building boom, with a programme of city beautification and street improvements, including the cutting down and widening of several of the principal thoroughfares. From 1923 to 1928 the Brisbane City Council implemented its most ambitious town improvement scheme to that date: the widening of Adelaide Street by {{convert|14|ft}} along its entire length. Resumptions in Adelaide Street had commenced in the 1910s, but work on the street widening did not take place until the 1920s. The work was undertaken in stages, commencing in 1923 at the southern end where the new Brisbane City Hall was under construction. Some buildings had the front section removed and a contemporary facade installed on the new road alignment. Elsewhere, earlier buildings were demolished and substantial new structures took their place. At the northern end of Adelaide Street the cutting down of the hill below St John's Cathedral in 1928 facilitated greater access to Petrie Bight, which, close to new city wharves at the end of Boundary Street, boomed in the 1920s as a warehousing district.{{cite QHR|19627|Austral Motors Building (former)|602505|access-date=1 August 2014}}

In 1975, Adelaide Street was extended from George Street to North Quay as construction on the Brisbane Administration Centre was underway.{{cite book |title=Shaping a city |last=Cole |first=John R. |year=1984 |publisher=William Brooks Queensland |location=Albion, Queensland |isbn=0-85568-619-7 |pages=251 }}

In November 2021 work began on the construction of a tunnel under Adelaide Street. The tunnel provides a link between the South East Busway and the Inner-Northern Busway for Brisbane Metro vehicles and buses.{{cite news |last=Nally |first=Alicia |date=14 February 2023 |title=Brisbane Metro project commences tunnel under Adelaide Street, linking busways |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-14/brisbane-metro-project-commences-tunnel-under-adelaide-street/101971196 |work=ABC News |access-date=22 February 2024}}

A number of locations on Adelaide Street are listed on the Queensland Heritage Register, including:

• 64 Adelaide Street: Brisbane City Hall{{cite QHR|14840|Brisbane City Hall|600065|access-date=13 July 2015}}
• 228 Adelaide Street: ANZAC Square{{cite QHR|14837|Anzac Square|600062|access-date=13 July 2015}} and South African War Memorial{{cite QHR|14835|South African War Memorial|600060|access-date=13 July 2015}}
• 232 Adelaide Street: Commonwealth Government Offices{{cite QHR|14839|Commonwealth Government Offices|600064|access-date=13 July 2015}}
• 418–420 Adelaide Street: former Castlemaine Perkins Building{{cite QHR|30281|Castlemain Perkins Ltd Building (former)|602684|access-date=13 July 2015}}
• under Adelaide Street: part of former heritage listed Wheat Creek Culvert{{cite QHR|17031|Wheat Creek Culvert|602218|access-date=13 July 2015}}
• 160 Queen Street: Brisbane Arcade{{cite QHR|14833|Brisbane Arcade|600058|access-date=13 July 2015}} (but goes through to Adelaide Street)
• 255A Ann Street: Anzac Square Building incorporating the ANZAC Square Arcade{{cite QHR|14834|Former Queensland Government Offices (Anzac Square Building)|600059|access-date=13 July 2015}} (but extend through to Adelaide Street)
• 325 Edward Street: Rowes Building{{cite QHR|14870|Rowes Building|600095|access-date=13 July 2015}} (officially located at 221 Adelaide Street, but this is an L-shaped block of land and the heritage-listed building fronts onto Edward Street)

The Atlas Café, located at Atlas Chambers, 27 Adelaide Street in Brisbane's CBD, was operated by Greek migrant George Sklavos, starting some time during the mid-1920s. Sklavos is first listed as the proprietor of the Atlas Cafe in the 1927–1928 edition of the Queensland Post Office Directory.{{Cite SLQ-CC-BY|url=http://blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/jol/2019/11/11/atlas-cafe-brisbane/|title=Atlas Cafe, Brisbane|author=Myles Sinnamon|date=11 November 2019|website=|access-date=5 February 2020}}

Notable buildings and parks along Adelaide Street include Brisbane City Hall, King George Square, ANZAC Square with the Shrine of Remembrance (both of which honour Australia's war dead), ANZAC Square Arcade, Brisbane Square and Post Office Square.

ANZAC Day parades, in which Australian war veterans (and war veterans of allied nations) march, take place in Adelaide Street, on 25 April every year, and Dawn services are held at the Shrine of Remembrance within ANZAC Square at Adelaide Street.[http://www.anzacday.org.au/education/tff/memorials/queensland.html Shrine of Remembrance - Anzac Square, Brisbane] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012155556/http://www.anzacday.org.au/education/tff/memorials/queensland.html |date=October 12, 2007 }} – Anzac Day War Memorials official website. The website also includes information about the Shrine of Memories beneath the Shrine of Remembrance, as well as explaining the significance of the number of columns forming the Shrine of Remembrance, and the significance of the number of steps leading to the Shrine of Remembrance from Anzac Square[http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200704/r139655_478904.jpg Photo of Dawn Service on ANZAC Day, at ANZAC Square, Adelaide Street] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108130849/http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200704/r139655_478904.jpg |date=8 November 2012 }}[http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200704/r139657_478919.jpg Photo of Dawn Service on ANZAC Day at the Shrine of Remembrance, ANZAC Square, Adelaide Street] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108130854/http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200704/r139657_478919.jpg |date=8 November 2012 }} Adelaide Street is featured on television every year on ANZAC Day, 25 April, with the ANZAC Day Dawn Service and the ANZAC Day Parade (when the full parade is telecast live, including the saluting of the veterans by the Queensland Governor near King George Square, next to Brisbane City Hall).[http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200704/r139697_479173.jpg ANZAC Day Parade photo taken in Adelaide Street] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108130836/http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200704/r139697_479173.jpg |date=8 November 2012 }}

Adelaide Street bus mall is a hub for Brisbane's buses, with services operated under Translink. Entrances to King George Square busway station and Central station are also accessed from Adelaide Street side of King George Square and Anzac Square.

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• North Quay
• George Street
• Albert Street
• Edward Street
• Creek Street
• Wharf Street
• Queen Street
• Macrossan Street
• Boundary Street

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