About
A booking hall turned casino floor was something I passed on foot growing up
Heritage planning is my job here in Adelaide, and for years I passed, on my commute, the North Terrace railway station of 1928 — back before anyone had rebranded it a gaming floor. Beneath the carpet you can still read the marble concourse and the old ticket hall. It's precisely that distance between a space made for trains and one now given over to cards that prompted this site.
Private notes, then a public case
It began as a private set of notes, measured against the building's forebears in Europe: within the Palazzo Dandolo, the Ridotto of 1638; the hall at Monte Carlo where, in 1863, François Blanc restored a bankrupt principality to solvency; and, from the 1970s, the rooms of an octagonal tower laid out so each upper storey looked out at water rather than in at a table. Nowhere had anyone treated the casino chiefly as a *building* — its plan, its structural change, its planning rationale — leaving the game as the secondary concern. Out of those notes, this site grew.
What this is not
- No odds advice — this is not a strategy guide.
- No operator affiliations, sponsorship, or paid placement.
- No visits, bookings, or venue information — nothing here is an invitation to attend anywhere.
The drawings on my desk are working copies — plans redrawn from public records to compare footprints, not to reproduce anyone's property. Where a source disagrees with itself, I say so rather than pick the tidier number.
Corrections and sources
I get dates and material details wrong sometimes — a floor plan misdated, a listing year transposed. If you can correct a fact, or point to a better source than the one I've used, write to me. I read everything and credit corrections when I use them.