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Among the town's earliest public buildings were the Independent (Congregational) church, opened 7 March 1848, St Peter's (Anglican) church, opened 28 March 1852 and the Pier Hotel, opened Christmas Day 1856, all the work of [[Henry J. Moseley]],<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article25730069 |title=Death of Mr. H. J. Moseley |newspaper=[[The Advertiser (Adelaide)]] |volume=XXXVII |issue=11145 |location=South Australia |date=7 July 1894 |access-date=23 March 2018 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> for whom Moseley Street and Moseley Square were named. No trace of the original structures remains.
The [[Corporate Town of Glenelg]] was proclaimed in 1855, separating local governance of the township of Glenelg from that of the [[District Council of West Torrens|West Torrens]] and [[District Council of Brighton|Brighton]] district councils. Construction of the Glenelg Institute, which is now the Glenelg Town Hall
===Jetty===
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The jetty kiosk was wrecked in a storm in 1943, and the jetty was severely damaged by a freak [[cyclone]] in 1948. Most of the structure washed away and the remaining structure was deemed unsafe. Just two weeks later, the local council began drafting plans for a new jetty and construction was completed in 1969.<ref>Rogers, Tony; (2009), ''South Australia’s Extreme Weather: Its Human Impact'', Australian Metrological Association Incorporated, Kent Town SA, pages 113-123. ({{ISBN|978 0 646 51841 1}})</ref><ref name="mlssaJuly">{{Cite web|url=http://www.mlssa.asn.au/nletters/july2002.htm |first=Steve |last=Reynolds |title=The Glenelg Jetty (Part 2) |work=MLSSA Newsletter July 2002 |access-date=15 December 2006 |year=2002 |publisher=[[Marine Life Society of South Australia]], Inc. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060920124544/http://www.mlssa.asn.au/nletters/july2002.htm |archive-date=20 September 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="CHB1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.holdfast.sa.gov.au/heritage_history/attractions.htm |publisher=City of Holdfast Bay |title=Attractions Within Holdfast |access-date=15 December 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061208010615/http://www.holdfast.sa.gov.au/heritage_history/attractions.htm |archive-date=8 December 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The new structure was just 215 metres (705 ft) long,<ref name="CHB1" /> less than two-thirds of the length of the original jetty. The second jetty continues to stand today, at the end of [[Jetty Road, Glenelg|Jetty Road]].
On 1 January 2016, two boys were drowned after falling into the water from rocks to north of the
=== The Glenelg Blocks ===
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===High-rise development===
[[File:Atlantic Tower During Development in the 1970's.jpg|thumb|Atlantic Tower During Development, circa mid-1970s]]
Atlantic Tower was built in the late 1970s and was Adelaide's tallest residential building at the time. The fourteen-story tower featured a revolving restaurant on its top floor, and was part of a larger development plan that never eventuated.<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=atlantictower-adelaide-australia | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929141557/http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=atlantictower-adelaide-australia | url-status=
The Holdfast Shores development, starting in the late 1990s, included the construction of the Marina Pier apartment building with its own private marina in [[Glenelg North]], and the Pier Hotel, founded 2001, and unrelated to the historic [[Pier Hotel, Glenelg|Pier Hotel]] on Moseley Square. The development was met with strong opposition, from both local residents and the City of Holdfast Bay, fearing overdevelopment would ruin the area.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.holdfast.sa.gov.au/pdf/Hfast_Shores_Media_Release_160604.pdf |author=City of Holdfast Bay |title=Profound Regret and Disappointment, Apartments to go ahead on Glenelg foreshore |access-date=1 December 2006 |year=2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061113095454/http://www.holdfast.sa.gov.au/pdf/Hfast_Shores_Media_Release_160604.pdf |archive-date=13 November 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Parts of the plan were scaled back, with the Platinum Apartment building scaled down from fifteen stories to nine, and the cinema complex cancelled.
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