Pirie Street is served by a stop on the Glenelg tram line on King William Street. It is mainly occupied by office buildings, restaurants, and nightspots. It is one of the narrower streets of the Adelaide grid, at 1 chain (66 ft; 20 m) wide, and has a bicycle lane.
The Pirie Street Brewery, later known as Adelaide Brewery,[4] occupied a number of buildings down Wyatt Street, as well as no. 113 Pirie, which was occupied by the Hill Smith Gallery from July 1983[5] for 37 years.[6] While no. 113 has not been heritage-listed, the other brewery buildings in Wyatt street were listed on the South Australian Heritage Register on 20 November 1986.[7]
Buildings which are heritage-listed at state level as of April 2024[update] are:[8]
the old Tivoli Hotel at no.248 (state and local listing)[8]
Other buildings which are heritage-listed as of local heritage interest as of April 2024[update] are:[8]
The Epworth Building at 31–35 Pirie Street was built in 1926 as a commercial property for the Methodist Church.[10] Designed by the architectural practice of English and Soward,[11] it is listed among 120 nationally significant 20th-century buildings in South Australia.[12]
In March 2019 a section of Pirie Street was closed for the day and transformed to represent Cape Town in the 1970s, for filming of the thriller film Escape from Pretoria, starring Daniel Radcliffe.[14][15]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pirie Street, Adelaide.
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^"History of Adelaide Through Street Names - Streets Named on the 23rd May, 1837". 4 March 2005. Retrieved 9 November 2009.
^"The Adelaide Brewery, Pirie Street". Adelaide Observer. Vol. XXVI, no. 1392. South Australia. 6 June 1868. p. 14. Retrieved 14 December 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
^"City of Adelaide Heritage Survey (2008) [Section on Hill-Smith Fine Art Gallery, 113 Pirie Street]". Adelaide City Council.
^"Hill Smith Gallery". Hill Smith Art Advisory. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
^"54-60 Wyatt Street ADELAIDE". The South Australia Heritage Places database. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
^ a b c d e f g"Heritage places [Search results, Adelaide LGA]". SA Heritage Places Database Search. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
^Marsh, Walter (3 November 2019). "Archie Roach tells his story right and true in memoir Tell Me Why". The Adelaide Review. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
^Architecture Museum, UniSA > - Architects of South Australia > Epworth Building Accessed 10 June 2014.
^Architecture Museum, UniSA > Architects of South Australia > Herbert Montefiore Jackman Accessed 10 June 2014.
^120 notable buildings - Australian Institute of Architects Archived 13 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 8 May 2014.
^Richards, Stephanie (27 August 2020). "Heritage facade to be demolished as Pirie St Hyatt gets green light". InDaily. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
^Sutton, Malcolm (13 March 2019). "Adelaide transformed into apartheid-era Cape Town for Escape From Pretoria filming". Australian Broadcasting Corporation News. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
^Polychronis, Gabriel (14 March 2019). "Adelaide's Pirie St transformed into 1978 Cape Town for Daniel Radcliffe's movie Escape from Pretoria". Adelaide Now. The Advertiser. Retrieved 14 March 2019.