Glenelg. A fine Adelaide mansion on the esplanade at Glenelg. Built 1873 for William Hill a partner in John Dunn's flour milling company from Mt Barker

William Hill of Glenelg. He was the owner of Glenara House on the South Esplanade which was built in 1873.

Hill was made a Justice of the Peace at Glenelg in 1875. He died in 1885 and his estate was valued at just under £25,000. Hill owned a house called Crowsnest at Mt Barker on eight acres which he used as his summer residence. He also owned property at Norwood and also in the city of Adelaide and blocks of land in Edithburgh on Yorke Peninsula. He was a shareholder in Parkside Tramway, the Port Pire North Land Company, a tin mine in the Northern Territory etc. William Hill married one of the daughters of John Dunn the flour miller of Mt Barker. William Hill became partner in Dunn Milling Company with his father-in-law as the main shareholder. The Dunn Milling Company had flourmills across South Australia in the late 19th century. During his life William Hill was a successful wheat and grain agent in his own right as well as his work with Dunn Milling. He had three daughters and no sons. His wife died at Glenara in 1912. The property remained in the possession of William Hill’s descendants until the 1990s.

 

 

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