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Tokai Manor House, Porter Reformatory, Tokai, Constantia, Wynberg District

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Post date: 07/08/2012
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Tokai is situated almost due south of Groot Constantia up against the Steenberg mountain, on a portion of Simon van der Stel’s former grazing lands. Tokai Road runs in a direct line from the main road to this stately old farm.
The farm was first granted in 1792 to Johan Andreas Rauch, the head of the armoury and chief supervisor of Groote Schuur. Only two months after the grant, Rauch sold it to the “Burgher Chirurgijn” Andries George Hendrik Teubes. He must have built the house in 1795-1796 according to the design of L. M. Thibault. Indeed, the high stoep, round pillars and the raised artificial freestone he used are well-known features of Thibault’s architectural style. The gable is considered by many to be one of the earliest with a rectangular pediment. The high building costs must have ruined Teubes, for he became bankrupt in 1799 and the farm changed hands three times in the next three years until it became the property of Petrus Michiel Eksteen in 1802. Eksteen came from a well-to-do family and his father was at that time the owner of the farm Bergvliet. It seems that Tokai was too much for him too, for it was bought by two Eksteen brothers, Sebastiaan Valentyn and Jacob Pieter, from his insolvent estate. In 1883 the farm with its buildings became the property of the government of the Cape Colony. In the twentieth century it became part of a well-known reformatory and was extensively restored by the government in collaboration with members of the Historical Monuments Commission.

Construction Date: 1795c

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