The partnership between Frank EMLEY and Frederick WILLIAMSON from around 1920 in Johannesburg. Emley was joined by Williamson on Emley's winning the competition for the design of the Main Building (or Central Block) for the University of the Witwatersrand, the first building on the new University campus. Emley's health suffered at the time the new Main Building was being designed and Williamson was responsible for much of the work. Nine of Emley and Williamson's buildings, designed mostly in the Edwardian/Beaux Arts neo-classical style, were displayed at the exhibition of Dominion and Colonial architecture held in London in 1926, among 305 South African exhibits. Emley & Williamson were elected by the Witwatersrand Master Builders Association to design the Association's Johannesburg headquarters. Their work was widely illustrated in contemporary periodicals and in subsequent publications as being representative of a particular Johannesburg style. The practice was continued by Williamson after Emley's retirement. (Greig 1971; Herbert 1975; Musiker 1979; Pearse 1960; Van der Waal 1979; SAAR Dec 1927:91-5)
Submitted an entry for the Competition for the new Prime Minister's Residence - unplaced. All truncated references not fully cited in 'References' are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon. List of projects With photographs
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Aegis Building - Second: 1934-1936. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| Alliance Investment Co Building: 1926. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| Annan House: 1935. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| Anstey's Building - Third: 1935. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| Beckett's Buildings, alterations: 1931. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| Beresford House: 1925-1927 : 1934. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| Castle Mansions - Second: 1930. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| Chamber of Mines Building - Second: 1921-1923. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| Commercial Exchange Building: 1935. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| Davidson's Mansions: 1923-1925. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| Flats: 1926. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| Flats, Houghton Estate for Afr City Props: 1934. Houghton, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| Good Shepherd Home, chapel: 1926. Norwood, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| Green's Building: 1935. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| Hellenic Government School: 1928-1931. Malvern, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| House AJJ Goldby: 1933. Saxonwold, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| House DA Tullis, add: 1933. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| House GH Adie: 1923. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| House J Tilson Barry: 1926. Dunkeld, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| House Langerman: 1927. Lower Houghton, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| House N Kreen: 1928. Houghton, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| House Palmer - Abegweit - Emlovu: 1919 : 1936. Westcliff, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect 1936
| House R Stratford: 1928. Dunkeld, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| House RAC Kearns: 1933. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| House Schabort: 1927. Parkview, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| House W Gemmill: Dhlulimiti: 1924. Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| House WG Ross: 1925. Houghton, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| Lauriston Court: 1936. Orange Grove, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| London House: 1935. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| MacKay Mansions: 1934. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| Mackay Mansions: 1930?. Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng - Architect
| Manners Mansions: 1939. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| Marlborough House, alt: 1935. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| Master Builders' Assn Bldg: 1927. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| Stanley House for African City Props Trust: 1926. Central, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| Tudor Lodge: 1933. Saxonwold, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| TW Beckett's Bldg, alt with H ROWE ROWE: 1931. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| TW Beckett, offices/factory/store, with H ROWE ROWE: 1939. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| Union House: 1928. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| University of the Witwatersrand, Central Block - Robert Sobukwe Block: 1920. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| University of the Witwatersrand, Chemistry and Physics block: 1919. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| University of the Witwatersrand, Chemistry and Physics block: 1924. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| University of the Witwatersrand, Engineering Building: 1925. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| University of the Witwatersrand, ext, Engineering block: 1934. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| University of the Witwatersrand, Main Block - Great Hall: 1920-1925 : 1937-1940. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
| University of the Witwatersrand, William Cullen Library: 1933. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
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References Chipkin, Clive M. 1993. Johannesburg Style - Architecture & Society 1880s - 1960s. Cape Town: David Phillip. pp 79, 80, 89, 95, 96, 145, 148, 149
| Chipkin, Clive M. 2008. Johannesburg Transition - Architecture & Society 1950 - 2000. Johannesburg: STE Publishers. pp 72, 75, 77
| Fisher, RC, Le Roux, SW. 1998. Architecture of the Transvaal. Pretoria: UNISA. pp 90
| Herbert, Gilbert. 1975. Martienssen & the international style: The modern movement in South African architecture. Cape Town - Rotterdam: AA Balkema. pp 40, 74, 75, 85, 111
| Picton-Seymour, Désirée. 1989. Historical Buildings in South Africa. Cape Town: Struikhof Publishers. pp 151
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