marie koopmans de wet Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/marie-koopmans-de-wet Thu, 16 Aug 2018 13:53:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 KOOPMANS-DE WET HOUSE Strand Street Cape Town http://toursmaps.com/koopmans-de-wet-house-strand-street-cape-town.html Sun, 05 Nov 2017 12:50:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=247631 In the gaanderij, or lower hall, the neoclassical wall decoration behind the Cape coromandel side table (c. 1780) is original -first uncovered around 1913 by Dr William Purcell, whose aim was to restore the house to its original 18th-century appearance. hefact that this house survives at all is something to celebrate. Once at the seafront, Sea Street, now Strand Street, was lined with dwellings of considerable architectural merit and this was one of them. Neoclassicism emerged in the Cape in the 1780s, probably following the lead of French-born architect Louis Michel Thibault. Some of the finest townhouses of the period

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