EMLEY and WILLIAMSON

Architect

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

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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 Bldg: 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 Bldg: 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 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 Invest Trust Building: 1934. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Mackay Mansions: 1930?. Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng - Architect

Manners Mansions: 1939. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Manners Mansions - Second: 1937. 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

Books citing EMLEY and WILLIAMSON

Picton-Seymour, Désirée. 1989. Historical Buildings in South Africa. Cape Town: Struikhof Publishers. pp 151