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Post date: 07/08/2012
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Bibliography archive: Walker
Bibliography archive: Walker
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History: The first registered owner of this erf was Hendrik Albertyn obtained it in 1884. In 1901 Clifford Hume Knight bought the property and built the house himself. He was the American Vice-Council in Cape Town at the time of the Jameson Raid. The property was leased from 1922 as an orphanage, a nursing home and a boy’ s college until 1939 when it was bought by Princess Ida Labia. In 1954 Mr. Maurice Myerson obtained it and in 1969 the present owner, Dr. Gail-Maryse Cochran bought the property.
Visual Description: The house is a large Venetian-looking “palazzo’. The Italian Renaissance effect is created through the use of Renaissance elements such as the arched entrance, balustrades, Tuscan columns on the second floor and unfluted Corinthian columns.The combination of stone and white-painted plaster in this house se appropriate. The slight batter of the lower floor is in keeping with the general impression of palatial massiveness. Tile on plastered brick. Front elevation stone. Stone plinth. Plastered columns and balustrade.
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Site Features: Outbuilding to side.
Condition: FairBalustrading in poor condition
Construction Date: 1899
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