Ayers House

This morning we visited Ayers House.

Ayers House is named after Sir Henry Ayers who lived in the house during the latter half of the 19th Century. Sir Henry Ayers was a distinguished politician and financier, who became Premier of South Australia seven times during the nineteenth century.

Constructed of local bluestone, the house is attributed to the work of colonial architect Sir George Strickland Kingston. Built on the site of a small cottage, the house evolved in several stages from a nine-roomed brick house built by William Paxton, a chemist and early Adelaide entrepreneur who returned to England in 1855.