Urrbrae. Adelaide. The Waite Agricultural Research Institute building erected on land donated by Peter Waite 1922. It was built 1924. The institute opened 1925 when the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Adelaide was established : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Urrbrae. Adelaide. The Waite Agricultural Research Institute building erected on land donated by Peter Waite 1922. It was built 1924. The institute opened 1925 when the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Adelaide was established / denisbin
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| 説明 | Peter Waite Urrbrae House. Peter Waite 1834 to 1922 was a leading pastoralist and philanthropist in 19th and 20th century South Australia. He arrived in Melbourne from Scotland in 1859 and immediately travelled overland to Adelaide to join his brother in a pastoral lease near Terowie named Pandappa Station. Then in 1862 Peter Waite took over Paratoo Station in partnership with Thomas Elder. After his brother died he took over Pandappa in his own right and eventually Paratoo Station as well. In 1864 he built a new homestead on Paratoo and bought out his fiancé from Scotland so that they could marry. They settled down at Paratoo during the devastating drought of 1864 to 1865. Waite survived the drought well as he had pastured 12,000 sheep at Penola in the South East during the drought. He progressed with further partnerships with Thomas Elder (later Sir Thomas Elder) including Beltana, Cordilla Downs, Murnpeowie stations etc. From 1870 his family spent their summers at Glenelg until they purchased a 100 acre property on the corner of Cross and Fullarton roads in 1875 with Thomas Elder. It included a single storey house built in 1846 named Urrbrae by another Scot. The Waite family took possession of the property in 1877 as their main residence and they owned it by 1882. On a trip back to Scotland furnishings, porcelain, silverware and furniture were bought for the old Urrbrae House. Then in 1885 they decided to build a new residence and demolish the old one. The family travelled overseas in 1889 and took up residence in London for several years during construction of the two storey house. The architects of their new house were C.H.Marryat and E. J. Woods. The Waites returned in 1891 and occupied the new Urrbrae House not long after that. Although Peter and Mathilda Waite had eight children including three sons only one son married and produced any heirs to the massive Peter Waite estate. But that son had no links to South Australia and lived in England. The son who lived in South Australia died in an unfortunate accident in 1913. Three of his adult daughters had never married and were unlikely to do so. After the tragic accidental death of his son David, Peter Waite decided to donate much of his fortune to education in South Australia. In that year he wrote the Chancellor of the University of Adelaide informing him that he intended leaving Urrbrae House and its 100 acres of city land for university agricultural studies. At the same time he wrote to the Premier of South Australia informing him that he intended leaving 90 acres to the government for an agricultural high school on land he was about to purchase. In his letter Peter Waite wrote: “....our agriculturists and pastoralists....have…. with little scientific training.. ..placed our wheat, wool and fruits in the highest estimate of the world; our sheep have been brought to such perfection that they are sought after not only by all the sister states but by South Africa. Our agricultural machinery has been found good enough even for the Americans to copy…” In 1915 Peter Waite acquired more land adjoining Urrbrae House and donated a further 130 acres to the University of Adelaide. That land is now the Waite Agricultural Campus of the University of Adelaide and the land west of Cross Road is Urrbrae Agricultural High School and Unley High School. Peter Waite died at his holiday house called Davaar at Victor Harbor in April 1922. Martha Waite died at Urrbrae House in November of that same year. Both were buried in the family plot in the Anglican cemetery at Mitcham. The Gothic style stone and brick gate house on the corner of Cross and Fullarton roads was undoubtedly built during the late 1850s when Edward Stirling, another partner of Thomas Elder, occupied Urrbrae House. The Waite Agricultural Research Institute was erected in 1924. You can see that motto in the triangular pediment above the main entrance of Waite Building. The planting of the nearby Waite Arboretum began in 1928 and it now has over 800 tree species from 200 genera planted in it. The University of Adelaide began offering degrees in agriculture in the early 20th century but the Faculty of Agriculture was not established until 1925 when the Waite Agricultural Research Institute began operations. The Institute’s first director was Professor A.E Richardson a graduate of Roseworthy Agricultural College near Wasleys. |
| 撮影日 | 2019-05-28 15:29:58 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| 撮影地 | Highgate, South Australia, Australia 地図 |
| カメラ | DSC-HX90V , SONY |
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