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Title: Foreshore, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Date unknown, Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Urban development, Building
Description: Foreshore
Identifier: islandora:15097

Title: Residence, Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Political prisoners, Historic sites, Monuments, Architecture, Residential buildings
Description: A residence on Robben Island, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16513

Title: Bo Kaap Museum, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Historic districts, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Architecture
Description: The Bo-Kaap Museum in Wale Street, Cape Town, housed in what is believed to be the oldest surviving structure in the area formerly known as the Malay Quarter.
Identifier: islandora:17235

Title: Church in Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Church with a mural, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:17328

Title: Granger Bay Court, Victoria and Alfred Waterfront
Subject: Granger Bay Court (Cape Town, South Africa), Office buildings--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town,
Description: Granger Bay Court, Victoria and Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town. Landscaping proposal: Dock Road elevation (line drawing)., Original, hand-drawn in ink on tracing paper., Elevation: scale 1:200
Identifier: islandora:22437

Title: Lioness Gateway, Company's Gardens, Cape Town, 1957
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Historic buildings, Colonialism, Botanical gardens
Description: The Lioness Gateway in the Company's Gardens, Cape Town, designed by architect Louis Thibault in the early 1800s and with sculptures by Anton Anreith.
Identifier: islandora:17252

Title: Adderley Street, Cape Town, 1920s
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, Roads, Urban development
Description: This is what Adderley Street looked liked in the 1920s, when the Cape Town Chamber of Commerce was already more than 100 years old (see far right).
Identifier: islandora:17347

Title: Visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York to Cape Town, 1901
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Trains, Historic buildings, Architecture, Royalty
Description: The Cape Town railway station is decorated in honour of the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, 1901.
Identifier: islandora:17415

Title: Granger Bay Court, Victoria and Alfred Waterfront
Subject: Granger Bay Court (Cape Town, South Africa), Office buildings--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town,
Description: Granger Bay Court, Victoria and Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town. Landscaping proposal: Dock Road elevation (line drawing)., Amended original, hand-drawn in ink on tracing paper., Elevation: scale 1:200
Identifier: islandora:22438

Title: Victorian Houses, Gardens, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Gardens (Cape Town, South Africa), Residential buildings, Architecture
Description: Gracious past: these elegant Victorian town houses in Hiddingh Avenue, Gardens, may be lost to residents, if a rezoning application for business rights is approved.
Identifier: islandora:15162

Title: Standard Bank, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Banking, Commerce, Architecture, Building,
Description: Horses and carriages outside the Standard Bank in Adderley Street, Cape Town, before the addition of the two upper storeys in the 1930s
Identifier: islandora:16752

Title: Wynberg Dutch Reformed Church, Cape Town, 1986
Subject: Wynberg (Cape Town, South Africa), Religion, Architecture, Historic buildings
Description: Founded in 1829, the historical Wynberg Dutch Reformed Church has been the subject of drastic and unusual restoration measures, carried out by Gordon Verhoef and Krause, the well known Cape Town decorating company. The 700 mm thick walls were pushed aside by the roof structure and to remedy this craftsmen cut grooves 25 mm x 30 mm deep in two sets, 300 mm apart, on the inner and outer walls at eaves level. These grooves accommodated 12 mm thick high tensile steel cables anchored in steel plates at the end of the walls. The cables were then stressed hydraulically, secured and cut off flush with the face of the plates. They were then mortar caulked and faced up so that after re-decoration inside and outside one is unable to detect the building is now collared with steel. The history of the church goes back to the time when members of the Dutch Reformed Church living in Constantia and Simonstown, etc., found the distance to Cape Town becoming irksome. After some discussion as to whether a new church should be built in Mowbray or in Wynberg, Wynberg was chosen and application was made to the Government for a grant of land. In August 1831 the foundation stone was laid by Sir John Truter, father and founder of the congregation. Born in the Cape, he studied law and was for many years in the service of the Dutch East India Company. In 1809 he became fiscal and then, in 1812, Chief Justice. In 1820 he was knighted by King George IV, the first Afrikaner to be honoured. The church was finished in 18 months and dedicated in September 1832, but by 1843 the congregation had grown in size and two new wings were added. This enlarged church was in use until 1889 when the congregation had outgrown it again, and a new church was built on the site of the old one. The new church is substantially the same as the old one except for the spire which replaced an ornate lantern. Inside, the arched roof is supported by four grey granite pillars which were a gift from Cecil John Rhodes when the church was rebuilt. All that is left of the original structure is a little side building with a small bell arch which still summons the congregation to morning and evening services.
Identifier: islandora:17272

Title: Parliamentary Precinct
Subject: South Africa ; Western Cape, Province of the ; Cape Town, Gardens (open spaces), Good Hope Theatre (Cape Town, South Africa), Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town, Public buildings--South Africa--Cape Town--Landscape architecture, Tuynhuys (Cape Town, South Africa)
Description: Good Hope Theatre and part of Tuynhuys, Cape Town, Western Cape. Parliamentary accommodation. Landscape sketch proposals: South Garden to the Good Hope Theatre, within the Parliamentary Precinct, Cape Town. This hand-drawn landscape plan and elevation is rendered with Pantone colour application and shadow projection, and indicates, with annotations, proposed planters, pathways and terraces., Scale 1:100
Identifier: islandora:22391

Title: Optimum Colliery, Hendrina
Subject: Office buildings--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Hendrina,
Description: Optimim Colliery, Hendrina, Mpumalanga. Proposed garden plan for office block, including plant species., Ammonia copy (blueprint) of original, hand-drawn, ink on tracing paper.
Identifier: islandora:28024

Title: Former New Apostolic Church, Cape Town, 1984
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Urban development, Commerce, Architecture
Description: A night club and takeaways have replaced a New Apostolic church.
Identifier: islandora:17310

Title: Foreshore, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Urban development, Building
Description: Foreshore
Identifier: islandora:15094

Title: Oldest house in the Malay Quarter, Cape Town
Subject: Bo-Kaap (Cape Town, South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, Culture, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Built between 1763 and 1768, no. 71 Wale Street is believed to be the earliest dwelling house in Cape Town surviving in its original form. The building is to be converted to a museum and is part of the city council's larger plan for the restoration of the Malay Quarter. The house is the only example left of a wavy, moulded parapet that was a common feature in Cape Town at the end of the 18th century.
Identifier: islandora:17225

Title: St Thomas's Anglican Church, Camp Ground Road, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: The church, recently rethatched, faces Camp Ground Road at Rondebosch. A transept and chancel, added to the stone building in 1903, complete the church as it stands to-day except for a vestry added later.
Identifier: islandora:17305

Title: St. Timothy's Church in Kensington, Cape Town, 1974
Subject: Kensington (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: St. Timothy's Church, Kensington, Cape Town, 1974.
Identifier: islandora:17334

Title: Catholic church of St. Joseph, Cape Town.
Subject: Kommetjie (Western Cape, South Africa), Religion, Architecture, Historic buildings
Description: On the hillside at Kommetjie a small church with a bell tower. This is the Catholic church of St Joseph, built by a devoted wife in honour of her husband. Guiseppe Rubbi came to South Africa from Italy at the turn of the century as a humble carpenter but struggled on to become one of the foremost builders in Cape Town. The Old Mutual building in Darling Street, which in its day was considered outstanding, was built by him. He owned one of the first four holiday homes in Kommetjie and loved to walk in the mountains behind. He expressed the wish that he could be buried there as the view was reminiscent of his birthplace, Marostica. When he died in 1946, Mrs Rubbi bought the piece of land where he used to sit and admire the view and had a tomb and ventilated vault erected there. She persuaded Bishop O'Reilly to allow her to build a chapel in memory of her husband. In 1948 Mr Garnelli, the nephew who had inherited the family business, built this chapel. No expense was spared. On the ceiling are three paintings in the style of an Italian church, with different marbles imported from the Alps and Vicenza for the altar and the floor. Around the walls are tablets depicting the 14 Stations of the Cross, and a mosaic of the Holy Mother and Child. When the church was completed, Mrs Rubbi arranged for a Salesian father to conduct a service there once a month, except at holiday times, when a priest came each Sunday. With foresight the Catholic Church had brought two adjoining plots and in 1968 when Ocean View township was established, a monastery was built behind the church. From then on, regular services were held in the church. Father Smeets looks after the new church at Ocean View and the local congregation from the kommetjie and Sun Valley areas.
Identifier: islandora:17274

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