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Greenmarket Square in 1762 with the Old Town House in the background. In the years following Cape Town's establishment in 1652 a number of streets came into existence above Strand Street (which followed the natural shoreline) and the Company Gardens which initially functioned as a market garden run by the Dutch East India Company to supply ships.
He donated the property to the congregation in the end, and in 1781, after Melck's death, construction began on the house. Louis Michel Thibault was probably the original architect. Anton Anreith is generally considered to have been responsible for the stained-glass windows, the swan in the gable, and the engravings on the front door.
Strand Street is one of the main streets in the central business district of Cape Town, South Africa. [1] It runs northwest-southeast through the centre from Green Point to Woodstock, passing the Golden Acre shopping centre, the Cape Town railway station, the Lutheran Church in Strand Street, [2] the Koopmans-de Wet House, [3] and the Castle of ...
It was transferred to the University of Cape Town in 1980 where it is now used as student accommodation. Located within walking distance of Groote Schuur, The Woolsack was used as a guest house by Rhodes, most notably hosting the noted British poet and writer Rudyard Kipling when he used to visit Cape Town for his winter holidays between 1898 ...
The municipality of Wynberg was merged into the City of Cape Town following a local referendum on the issue on 11 June 1927. [3]: 541 The merger that was prompted by complaints from community members in outlying areas of the municipality, such as Diep River and Plumstead, that their areas were being neglected and that much needed urban upgrades to roads, sanitation, and the provision of ...
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Adderley Street was the original main street of the city centre shopping district with large department stores such as Stuttafords (SW corner of Hout Street, going through to St Georges Mall, now Edgars et al.), Garlicks (at Exchange Place across from Cape Town railway station), [2] Fletcher & Cartwrights, and Thomas, Watson & Co.
Harfield Village, [1] also known as Lower Claremont, [2] is a neighbourhood in the south of Cape Town. It is located between the suburbs of Kenilworth and Claremont, Cape Town. The Arderne Gardens are located to the area's immediate north on the other side of Harfield Station. Although it is typically regarded as being part of Claremont, parts ...