VON BUCHENRODER, Wilhelm Ludwig

Contractor

Born in Germany, Von Buchenroder became an officer in the British Army and arrived at the Cape in 1806, left the army and set up as a merchant and building contractor in Grahamstown, where he apparently received contracts for three government buildings in 1813 but eventually lost them by 1817 since he could not complete them in time. He then set up as a general dealer in Uitenhage, Cape. He eventually turned unsuccessfully to farming.

List of projects

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With notes

Old Gaol - First: 1813. Makhanda (Grahamstown), Eastern Cape - Architect

Books citing VON BUCHENRODER

Lewcock, Ronald. 1963. Early Nineteenth Century Architecture in South Africa : a study of the interaction of two cultures, 1795-1837. Cape Town: AA Balkema. pp 444

Potgieter, DJ (Editor-in-chief). 1972. Standard Encyclopaedia of South Africa [SESA] Volume 5 For-Hun. Cape Town: Nasou. pp 301