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The Metropolitan Fire Station was built in 1983 | |
| General information | |
| Type | Street |
| Length | 1.2 km (0.7 mi) [1] |
| Opened | 1837 |
| Major junctions | |
| Western end | Victoria Square |
| Pulteney Street, Hutt Street | |
| Eastern end | East Terrace |
Wakefield Street is a main thoroughfare intersecting the centre of the South Australian capital, Adelaide from east to west.
It runs in from east to west between East Terrace and Victoria Square, and is one of the three streets (along with Grote Street and King William Street) to run through Victoria Square in the middle of the Adelaide city centre. The same three streets are also the widest streets in the city centre, at 2 chains (130 ft; 40 m) wide (refer to Adelaide city centre#Layout). The western end of Wakefield Street is continued across Victoria Square as Grote Street, which extends to West Terrace. The eastern end of Wakefield Street continues as Wakefield Road across the Adelaide Park Lands to Britannia Roundabout on the City Ring Route, Adelaide. Wakefield Road continues on the eastern side of the roundabout as Kensington Road.
Buildings on Wakefield Street include (more or less west to east):
The street was named after Daniel Bell Wakefield, the solicitor who drafted the Act which proclaimed Adelaide. Like his brother Edward Gibbon Wakefield, he was also involved in the South Australia Association in London, but never visited Adelaide. [2]
In 1911 the Willard Hall and Willard Guest House were opened by the South Australian branch of the WCTU, named after Frances Willard, United States national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). [3] The building, previously St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, was situated on the south side of the road, 2.75 yards (2.51 m) west of the east side of Gawler Place. In 1928 an old bell was found in the tower, which was probably the first bell cast in Adelaide and made for the church. [4] A 1939 photograph shows the new art deco additions to the building, and the premises of Frank J. Siebert, Funeral Director, on the left. [5]
The first training hospital for nurses in the colony and then state, Private Hospital, Wakefield Street, occupied various sites between Daly and Hutt Street from 1883–4 [6] [7] until January 2020, when the new Calvary Adelaide Hospital opened on Angas Street. [8] [9]
The Unitarian Christian Church which once stood opposite Francis Xavier's Cathedral was sold to the Public Service Association in 1971. [10] It was replaced with a government building known as the "Wakefield House", a 20-storey building in brutalist style completed in 1980. [11]
| Location | km [12] | mi | Destinations | Notes | |
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| Adelaide city centre | 0 | 0.0 | Victoria Square, King William Street | Continues as Grote Street | |
| 0.2 | 0.12 | Gawler Place | |||
| 0.55 | 0.34 | Pulteney Street | |||
| 0.75 | 0.47 | Frome Street | |||
| 1.1 | 0.68 | Hutt Street | |||
| 1.2 | 0.75 | East Terrace | |||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is an active international temperance organization that was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity." It plays an influential role in the temperance movement. The organization supported the 18th Amendment and was also influential in social reform issues that came to prominence in the progressive era.
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Willard became the national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1879 and remained president until her death in 1898. Her influence continued in the next decades, as the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution were adopted. Willard developed the slogan "Do Everything" for the WCTU and encouraged members to engage in a broad array of social reforms by lobbying, petitioning, preaching, publishing, and education. During her lifetime, Willard succeeded in raising the age of consent in many states as well as passing labor reforms including the eight-hour work day. Her vision also encompassed prison reform, scientific temperance instruction, Christian socialism, and the global expansion of women's rights.
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