Building Details - Architects of South Australia

Hamilton also designed the Police Station and the Court House on Commercial Road, Port Adelaide, in 1860. Fearing the proposed buildings might sink into the soft soil at Port Adelaide, he ‘devised what was then a unique system of footings; a raft of baulks of red gum cross-sections and longitudinals, embedded in and then covered with lime concrete’ (Page 1986, p.63). The design of the buildings was in the Italianate style with a symmetrical colonnade and the court house featured a dome (now removed).