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Our Boys Institute (OBI) was a junior branch of the Young Men's Christian Association. Opened in 1896, the club was housed in a purpose-built premises at 221 Wakefield Street, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. The Our Boys Institute included lecture and games rooms, indoor running track, pool, and was available for boys aged 13–18, 'a forefunner to the various youth groups which flourished in the first half of the twentieth century' such as the Boys Brigade, Scouting, etc. The Our Boys Institute promoted a Christian philosophy and also ran camps and provided employment assistance for young men.〔SA Memory http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=61&c=1743〕 F.W. Danker was the architect for the building.〔http://www.architectsdatabase.unisa.edu.au/arch_full.asp?Arch_ID=12〕 The carved sandstone Venetian Gothic facade of the building is Heritage Listed.〔 The facade of the Our Boys Institute bears similarities to the Chicago Athletic Club; it has been suggested that Danker was influenced by the Club and its architect, Henry Ives Cobb.〔Perterson, B. State History Conference 2006, Community History Unit, History Trust of South Australia http://www.history.sa.gov.au/chu/programs/history_conference/BobPetersonPaper.pdf〕 The building has since been used as office space and an external studies college〔 and was converted by architects JPE Design Studio〔JPE Design Studio http://www.jpe.com.au/#/projects〕 to a boutique hotel in 2008. The hotel opened as Wakefield Residence but has since changed the name to Adabco Boutique Hotel.〔Adabco Boutique Hotel http://adabcohotel.com.au〕 Wakefield Residence and Wakefield Street are named for Edward Gibbon Wakefield, coloniser of South Australia and former prisoner of Newgate Gaol.〔 Bill Bryson, 2000 Down Under, Black Swan, page 159.〕 A plaque on the facade of the building shows the role played by the wife of the South Australian Governor, Sir Thomas Buxton, 3rd Baronet, Lady Victoria Buxton. Lady Buxton was a Christian Philanthropist who supported the Mothers' Union and YWCA and who resided in Adelaide between 1895 and 1898.〔Joan B. Huffman, ‘Buxton , Lady Victoria (1839–1916)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 〕 ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Our Boys Institute」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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