Urrbrae House Minstrels' Gallery, South Australia

            The current Urrbrae House was completed in 1891 as the home of pastoralist Peter Waite’s family.
It replaced a large single-storey house believed to have been constructed in the late 1840s-early 1850s by Robert Forsyth Macgeorge. The Waites moved into the original Urrbrae House in March 1877.
Urrbrae was the name given to the land Macgeorge bought in 1846: “Urr” after his home parish in Scotland. 
The new house was designed by architects Charles Howard Marryat and Edward John Woods, built by Nicholas W Trudgen and the interior decorations were designed by Aldam Heaton, a contemporary of William Morris.
In 1895 a domestic refrigeration plant and cold rooms were installed by Wildridge & Sinclair of Sydney, New South Wales. The house was the first in Adelaide to use electricity. 
The grounds include extensive gardens and the internationally esteemed Waite Arboretum.
Urrbrae House was the Waite family home until the deaths of Peter Waite and his wife Matilda, when it was handed over to the University of Adelaide in February 1923.
Today it is an accredited museum with the History SA and the historic heart of the University of Adelaide’s Waite Campus, providing educational, cultural and social activities for the on-campus community and the general public. 


   

Taken on: May 1, 2016

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