Medindie, South Australia

Medindie(formerly also known asMedindeeorMedindi) is an inner northern suburb ofAdelaidethe capital ofSouth Australia.It is located adjacent to theAdelaide Park Lands,just north ofNorth Adelaide,and is bounded byRobe Terraceto the south, Northcote Terrace to the east, Nottage Terrace to the north andMain North Roadto the northwest.

Medindie
Adelaide,South Australia
Victorian home in Medindie
Medindie is located in South Australia
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Coordinates34°53′46″S138°36′18″E/ 34.896°S 138.605°E/-34.896; 138.605
Population1,175 (SAL2021)[1]
Postcode(s)5081
LGA(s)Town of Walkerville
State electorate(s)Adelaide
Federal division(s)Adelaide
Suburbsaround Medindie:
Prospect Medindie Gardens Collinswood
Thorngate Medindie Walkerville
North Adelaideparklands North Adelaideparklands Gilberton
"The Briars" on Briar Avenue, Medindie, in 1910

The upper class suburb is mainly residential and contains many fine homes, and a number of historic mansions: "Willyama", (the Aboriginal name forBroken Hill), at 12 The Avenue was named so byCharles Rasp,the boundary rider who pegged a mining claim that became Broken Hill, after he bought it in 1887 from Oscar Görger, a local doctor/surgeon;[2][3]"The Briars" at 15 Briar Avenue, built forGeorge Hawkerin 1856, is now the McBride Hospital; and there are many fine houses along Robe Terrace.[4][5][6]

In 1884 the Brown sisters established a school on Mann Terrace on the north east fringe of North Adelaide. The school moved to Northcote Terrace north of the current location in 1885 and to its current address at 30 Northcote Terrace in 1893. Initially called the Medindie School and Kindergarten, it acquired the designation ofWilderness Schoolin 1918.[7]It is now a girls-only private school.

Scotty's Motel, an Adelaide landmark at Scotty's Corner on the northern edge of Medindie

Medindie's median property sale price in the June quarter of 2010 was $1,657,000.[8]The suburb regularly ranks with the highest median sale price in the South Australian Real Estate Institute's quarterly sales statistics. The top sale price in the 12 months to 21 March 2012 was $2,350,000 for a 4 bedroom house on Dutton Terrace.[9]

References

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  1. ^Australian Bureau of Statistics(28 June 2022)."Medindie (suburb and locality)".Australian Census 2021 QuickStats.Retrieved28 June2022.
  2. ^South Australian Directory,1883, pg. 191, and 1887, pg. 123
  3. ^South Australian Directory,1888, pg. 159
  4. ^Susan Marsden (1986)Metropolitan Adelaide: a short history,first appeared as chapter 7 of Jenny Walker (ed.),South Australia’s Heritage,Department of Environment & Planning, Adelaide, 1986, pp. 87–100. SA Historians.org.au
  5. ^Heritage Plan Amendment Reports,Walkerville News, April–June 2007, The Corporation of the Town of Walkerville, pg.3
  6. ^Robe Terrace, Medindie SA 5081,onthehouse.au
  7. ^"History".The Wilderness School.Retrieved8 December2017.
  8. ^"Archived copy"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 1 March 2012.Retrieved22 August2010.{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. ^Property Research Report for Medindie 5081,homepriceguide.au