| Marble Hill South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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 Ruins of the Governor's summer residence, showing the restored tower. | |||||||||||||||
  Marble Hill | |||||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 34°55′9.80″S 138°45′30.29″E / 34.9193889°S 138.7584139°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 69 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1879 | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5137 | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 615 m (2,018 ft) | ||||||||||||||
| Location | 14 km (9 mi) from Adelaide | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Adelaide Hills Council | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Morialta | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Mayo | ||||||||||||||
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Marble Hill was the Vice-Regal summer residence for the Governor of South Australia for seventy-five years, from 1880 to 1955. It is also the name of a ward of the Adelaide Hills Council, and a suburb, both named after the residence and in which the residence is located. It is about 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of Adelaide between the towns of Ashton and Cherryville, and has expansive views of the Adelaide Hills to the North and East, and the Adelaide Plains to the West.[2]
The residence was destroyed during the Black Sunday bushfire of 1955. Subsequently, the site was managed by the National Trust of South Australia from 1967 to 1992, and the Department for Environment and Heritage from 1992 to 2009. A volunteer Friends of Parks group, Friends of Marble Hill, ran open days and maintained the site from 1994 to 2008. To date, the main building has never been fully restored, but the National Trust undertook restoration of the tower and the nearby stables in the 1970s. Successive State Governments have not been prepared to restore the building (despite it having been a residence of the vice-regal representative), as the expense involved would not be considered responsible use of public funds.[3] In 2009, Marble Hill was sold to a local family, who plan to reconstruct and re-use the building.[4]
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Marble Hill (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ "South Australia – Marble Hill – Vice-regal Ruin In Park Setting".
- ^ "Historic Marble Hill to be restored". Archived from the original on 25 July 2008. Retrieved 16 January 2009.
- ^ "To the manor, reborn to its glory days". Retrieved 3 January 2018.
