South west corner of Hindley and Morphett Streets, 1926

State Library Catalogue Reference: B 4040

The Adelaide Ice and Cold Storage Company built this ornamental facility (on the right of this photograph) in Light Square in 1900. Seen here in 1926 it had a frontage of 30 metres on Morphett Street and a depth of 27 metres. In 1911 it became the Government Produce Depot. It was known locally as the 'cold stores'.

It was unusually ornamental for a cold produce storage facility, being a neoclassical red brick building featuring pilasters - slightly projecting columns on the face of a wall - with rendered mouldings, and a decorative parapet.

The building was extended in 1926. The chimney was demolished in 1942 and the whole building was demolished in the 1980s to make way for the new Adelaide College of TAFE in Light Square.

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