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Boshof gateway, Paradise Road, Newlands, Cape Town

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22/06/2012

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Post date: 07/08/2012
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History: Adjoining historic Rondebosch lies Newlands, named so by Ryk Tulbagh when he built a new country residence for the Governor and ploughed up “new lands” there. In 1666 the land that lay in the fork formed by the “old wagon road to the forest” and the main road to the south was granted to the miller and brickmaker W. C. Mostert who called his farm Goed-en-Quaad. Towards the end of the seventeenth century this land and the small adjoining farm Boshof passed into the possession of the chief surgeon, Willem ten Damme. The name Goed-en-Quaad gradually fell into disuse and when the well-known Alexander van Breda acquired the estate towards the end of the eighteenth century, the whole of it was known as Boshof. Van Brecla erected various buildings but the Boshof Gateway is probably one of the few structures that survived. It is situated at the corner of Paradise Road and Boshof Avenue and is one of the finest and best preserved eighteenth century Cape gate ways. It opens into Boshof Avenue, one of the oldest avenues at the Cape. This leads to the old Boshof house with the date 1793 on it, and to Bosbeek extension and Fernwood.
This elegant gateway was completely restored by the City Council of Cape Town in 1940.
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