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17-488: Plaza Theatre or Plaza Theater may refer to: Australia [ edit ] Plaza Theatre, Adelaide , a former theatre in Adelaide, South Australia, now demolished Plaza Theatre, Paddington , Brisbane, Queensland, a cinema built from 1929, now known as Empire Revival Plaza Theatre, Perth , Western Australia, a cinema opened in 1937 Plaza Theatre, Sydney , New South Wales,

34-438: A former theatre, now heritage-listed building India [ edit ] Plaza Theatre (Bangalore) United States [ edit ] Plaza Theater (Tucson) , Arizona Plaza Theatre (Palm Springs) , California Plaza Theatre (Atlanta) , Georgia Plaza Theatre (El Paso) , Texas Plaza Theatre Company , Cleburne, Texas Plaza Theatre (Charleston, West Virginia) , a historic building Topics referred to by

51-704: A ground level plinth just east of the north-east corner of the Tandanya building, which was dedicated by the Institution of Engineers, Australia , the Electricity Trust of South Australia and the Adelaide City Council on 6 April 1995. Other state heritage-listed buildings in Grenfell Street include: Other local heritage-listed buildings include: In July 2012, dedicated bus lanes were introduced along

68-549: A theatre diminished from 1923, and by 1929 it was operating as a dance hall . The building was partially destroyed by fire on 4 November 1929, and it fell into disuse until it was refurbished and reopened in 1933 as the Embassy Ballroom, which had an Art Deco facade. In the 1950s it was converted into a cinema, first called the Plaza Theatre and renamed Paris Cinema in 1965. It was later demolished and Regent Arcade built on

85-520: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Plaza Theatre, Adelaide Grenfell Street ( 34°55′26″S 138°36′07″E  /  34.924°S 138.602°E  / -34.924; 138.602 ) is a major street in the north-east quarter of the Adelaide city centre , South Australia . The street runs west-east from King William Street to East Terrace . Its intersection with Pulteney Street

102-559: Is formed by Hindmarsh Square . On the west side of King William Street, it continues as Currie Street towards West Terrace. Grenfell Street was named after Pascoe St Leger Grenfell , a Cornish businessman and member of the South Australian Church Society . His significant donation of an acre of land on North Terrace was used for the construction of the Holy Trinity Church — one of the first churches built in

119-567: The Adelaide German Club ( Allgemeiner Deutscher Verein ) in 1894, opening in June of that year. It was subsequently used for a variety of community events (many unrelated to the club), for around 20 years. Charles Cawthorne took over the lease and reopened it Queen's Hall on 7 August 1915. Its use turned to performances, mainly concerts, operas , dramas, and fundraisers for World War I , and it also hosted occasional variety shows . Its use as

136-596: The Botanic Line of the Adelaide trams had begun in early October that year). After this, nearly all buses travelling in an east–west direction across the city use Grenfell. [REDACTED] Australian Roads portal Trinity Gardens Trinity Gardens is a suburb of Adelaide , South Australia . The name is taken from Holy Trinity Church . On 28 March 1840 the trustees of Holy Trinity – Osmond Gilles , Charles Mann and James Hurtle Fisher – were given approximately 40 acres (160,000 m ) of land in

153-652: The O-Bahn tunnel under Rymill Park . The eastern end is occupied on the south side by the Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute , an art and cultural museum also used as a venue for the Adelaide Fringe and other events, and on the north side by the East End Markets redevelopment. Central Hall, at no. 102a Grenfell, was built by a Mrs Phillipson, of Glenelg , for the use of

170-629: The area, as Glebe lands, by Pascoe St Leger Grenfell . The land came to be known as Trinity Glebe . From 1911, the trustees of Holy Trinity Church had wanted to sell the Trinity Glebe for housing. However, the terms of the trust deed forbade it and required an act of Parliament to alter. In 1920, the Parliament made the necessary amendment. The land was then immediately subdivided, named 'Trinity Gardens', and sold for housing by Wilkinson, Sando & Wyles Ltd, who promised to make "liberal provision in

187-420: The city. Grenfell also donated another 40 acres (16 ha) of country land for the use of the church as glebe lands. This land later became the suburb of Trinity Gardens . Grenfell Street runs from King William Street to East Terrace . It is one of the intermediate-width streets of the Adelaide grid, at 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 chains (99 ft; 30 m) wide. On the west side of King William Street,

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204-590: The full length of Grenfell Street in both directions, in operation from 7am to 7pm each weekday. When operational, taxis , cyclists and emergency vehicles are also able to use the lane, but private vehicles can only travel up to 100 metres (330 ft) in the bus lane. In December 2016, after the O-Bahn extension tunnel was built underneath Rymill Park at the eastern end of the street, buses formerly routed along North Terrace were permanently routed along Grenfell (although they had been temporarily diverted from North Terrace via East Terrace, since construction of

221-565: The mall. The southern side is populated mainly by office buildings, including the Grenfell Centre ("the Black Stump") at no. 25. A dedicated bus lane runs the whole length of both Grenfell and Currie Streets, limiting private vehicles to one lane for most of its length, and carrying nearly all bus traffic traversing the city in an east–west direction. At the eastern end of Grenfell, a dedicated bus track carries buses across East Terrace into

238-423: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Plaza Theatre . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plaza_Theatre&oldid=1152015099 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

255-525: The site. On the corner of Grenfell Street and East Terrace there is the old Grenfell Street Power Station building. Much of the building now houses the Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute , facing Grenfell Street, which was heritage-listed on the SA Heritage Register in November 1984, while the old converter stations face East Terrace. A "Historic Engineering Plaque" is located on

272-521: The way of space for tennis, bowls and croquet." North Norwood Post Office opened around 1886, was renamed Trinity Gardens in 1950 and St Morris in 1963, when the second Trinity Gardens office opened in the present area of the suburb. Trinity Gardens is in the City of Norwood Payneham St Peters local government area , the South Australian House of Assembly Electoral district of Dunstan and

289-471: The western continuation of Grenfell Street is Currie Street, named after Raikes Currie , a member of the South Australian Association and South Australian Company . The section of the street which runs parallel to Rundle Mall (west of Hindmarsh Square) on the northern side features many retail outlets, as well as the southern entrances of many of the arcades, side-streets, and eateries of

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