Building Details - Architects of South Australia

Another of Dancker’s works were major additions to Menz’s Biscuit Factory, at 82 Wakefield Street, Adelaide, originally built in 1878 was a two-storey bluestone factory, in Italianate style (Fischer and Seamark 2005, p.54). Major additions were made in 1911-12 by Dancker. In 1912 H.G. Jenkinson, engineer for South Australian Reinforced Concrete writing to John Monash regarding the Menz job described Dancker as one who ‘thinks wonders can be done with brick in cement’ (John Monash website). It is also claimed that Dancker was ‘the first South Australian to call for the use of reinforced concrete in walls’ (AHPI).