Map of Cape Town
There are places that are less well known, other than to those who use them. The Lodge de Goede Hoop is one, Herbert Baker’s Welgelegen is another. Here hang …
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CITY HALL Darling Street Cape Town
The 1909 Cape of Good Hope Official Handbook, by town clerk Finch, describes the City Hall in Cape Town as being in the Italian Renaissance style. Hans Fransen, in …
GROOTE KERK Adderley Street Cape Town
The stairs lead to the galleries, one on either side of the gigantic interior space above the main doors, and added as the congregation expanded. Originally, the less-elevated sat …
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SOUTH AFRICA Queen Victoria Street Cape Town
Portrait of HRH Prince Alfred, Queen Victoria’s favourite son, presented to the library on its opening in 1861 and signed by the artist, Frederick Say (b.1804). During his working …
SENDINGGESTIG MUSEUM Long Street Cape Town
The interior is dominated at one end by a pulpit (1824) and a gallery, made of yellowwood and stinkwood, that runs around the back and the two long sides. …
NEDERLANDSE GEREFORMEERDE KERK TAFELBERG Buitenkant Street Cape Town
The organ has always been a feature of the NGK Tafelberg. It was installed in 1892, and has 1164 pipes and a walnut case. The innards have subsequently been …
GEREFORMEERDE KERKGEBOU HOF STREET
The creed of the congregation requires a plain, unadorned interior in which to worship. Unwittingly, perhaps, this enhances the beautiful simplicity of the architectural forms. I April 6th, 1952. …
MOUNT NELSON HOTEL Orange Street, Gardens Cape Town
The vaulted Garden Room is the hotel’s original dining room. Today, it is used for formal lunches, gala dinners, presentations and performances. At the far end is a portrait …
FOUNDER’S HOUSE, BISHOPS Rondebosch Cape Town
The dining hall (1862), one of the oldest sections of the Founder’s Quadrangle, was panelled in 1957. Fder’s House is the oldest part of Bishops. It’s at the core …
PALM TREE MOSQUE Long Street Cape Town
A little two-storey, 18th-century building in Long Street, originally a house, survives in use as a mosque – for which it was first used early in the 19th century. …