The first building on the site of Beehive Corner was built in the early 1840s, but little is known about the use of this particular structure. In 1849, a store was opened stocked with linens and drapery from ‘all the principal manufacturing towns in the United Kingdom’. Their new store was called The Bee Hive. Construction on the current Beehive Corner began in 1895. Its design is highly unusual, a very ornate form of Gothic Revival architecture, a style almost exclusively used for ecclesiastical buildings. Haigh’s original retail store, established in 1915 in Adelaide’s historic Beehive Corner