The former Port Pirie Railway Station on Ellen Street, built in a striking Victorian Pavilion style in 1902, forms part of the National Trust of South Australia’s Port Pirie Historic and Folk Museum. This interactive model captures the front facade of the building, built from squared coursed sandstone and complimented by an ornate verandah that incorporates pressed metal ceilings, zinc detailing and roofing products from the 1899 - 1901 Wunderlich Catalogues. The markers on the interactive model match some of the building features to the catalogue pages available online.
About Wunderlich Pty Ltd:
Founded in 1887, by the end of the century demand for Wunderlich’s lightweight ceilings and roofs had grown to the point where they were used in preference to plaster in practically every major museum, church, hospital, town hall, school, railway station across Australia.
With many thanks to the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences for access to the Wunderlich Collection and Archive . More https://ma.as/189912
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