The Sheridan Kiosk at the Adelaide Hospital on North Terrace, Adelaide was designed as a partly-open refreshment pavilion for both visitors and the convalescent to use and was operated by the volunteers of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Adelaide Hospital for fundraising purposes. It was opened on 18 November 1925 and dedicated to the memory of hospital benefactors, sisters Alice Frances Keith Sheridan and Violet Laura Simpson. The building was praised on its opening as “conveniently contrived and well lighted and ventilated within” (Sheridan Kiosk 1925: 10). The brick building featured a small octagonal plan with the front four faces open to the air and enclosed by verandah. A tea room area was located inside with a shop and a kitchen at the rear. The exterior was white cement and freestone in finish with a colour scheme was of blue and white and terrazzo flooring inside (Hospital Kiosk 1925: 3). Its distinctive metal domed roof gives it the appearance of a tempietto or small temple (South Australian Heritage Council 2014) and it is now on the South Australian State Heritage Register.
Sources:
Health Museum South Australia, online, accessed 31 March 2020 [https://www.healthmuseumsa.org.au/adelaide-hospital-1900-to-1960/adelaide-hospital-auxiliary/]
South Australian Heritage Council (2014) Old Royal Adelaide Hospital, Summary of State Heritage Place, online, accessed 31 March 2020 [https://data.environment.sa.gov.au/Content/Publications/26413_ORAH_SW_Precinct_Summary_of_SHP.pdf]
‘Imposing Memorial Kiosk’, Mail, 15 August 1925, 1, [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58202387]
'Sheridan Kiosk', Register 19 November 1925, 10, [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60638285]
'Hospital Kiosk', News, 13 August 1924, 1, [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article129801507]
'Hospital Kiosk, New Building Opened', News, 18 November 1925, 3, [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article129755865] |