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GEERS and GEERS

Established: 1934
Ended: 1945

Architect


A partnership between LM GEERS and his son GMJ GEERS in Johannesburg from 1934 to 1945. The firm continued under the same name after GMJ Geers's death. They were responsible for several churches for various branches of the Dutch Reformed Church community, including those at Villiers in the Orange Free State (1940), Mayfair in Johannesburg (1940) and the NHG Church at Roodepoort (1940). Their influence on Afrikaner Protestant Church architecture persisted through the work of VERMOOTEN who had served as an architect-in-training and then Junior Partner in Pretoria for their firm until the death of the younger GEERS.

(SAAR Sep 1934:247-8; Van Niekerk 1950)

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
With notes

Eeufees Church bldg: 1939. Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal - Architect
Gereformeerde Kerk: 1938. Benoni, Gauteng - Architect
Gereformeerde kerk Delarey: 1960-1962. Randburg, Gauteng - Architect
Hollandia House: 1939. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
Lembro flats: 1938. Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng - Architect
Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk: n.d.. Groot Marico, North West - Architect
Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk: 1946. Lichtenburg, North West - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: 1950. Bethal, Mpumalanga - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: 1935. Biesiesvlei, North West - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: 1951. Douglas, Northern Cape - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: n.d.. Eendracht, Mpumalanga - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: 1944. Emalahleni (Witbank), Mpumalanga - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: 1945. Ermelo, Mpumalanga - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: 1941. Hendrina, Mpumalanga - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: 1939. Melville, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: 1940. Brixton, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: 1941. Rosettenville, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: 1941. Linden, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: 1943. Westdene, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: 1944. Kensington, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: 1946. Koster, North West - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: 1950-1951. Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: 1933. Odendaalsrus, Free State - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: 1950. Sabie, Mpumalanga - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: 1941. Standerton, Mpumalanga - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: 1926. Tweeling, Free State - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: 1940. Villiers, Free State - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: 1888 : 1946. Wakkerstroom, Mpumalanga - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk - Kerkenberg: 1942. iNtabazwe (Harrismith), Free State - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk and orphanage: 1939. Krugersdorp, Gauteng - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk Boksburg-Noord: 1938. Boksburg, Gauteng - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk Germiston: 1923 : 1949. Germiston, Gauteng - Architect 1949
Nederduitse Hervormde Kerk: 1949. Bethal, Mpumalanga - Architect
Nederduitse Hervormde Kerk: c1938. Losberg, Fochville, North West - Architect
Nederduitse Hervormde Kerk: 1937. Germiston, Gauteng - Architect
Nederduitse Hervormde Kerk: 1946. Standerton, Mpumalanga - Architect
Nederduitse Hervormde Kerk: 1937. Central, Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng - Architect
Nederduitse Hervormde Kerk: n.d.. Pretoria West, Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng - Architect
Netherlands Bank: 1939. Polokwane (Pietersburg), Limpopo - Architect
Netherlands Bank, Von Brandis Branch: 1938. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect
Sher Court: 1935. Central, Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng - Architect
Shops/flats for Ned Herv Church: 1936. Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng - Architect

Books citing GEERS and GEERS

Chipkin, Clive M. 1993. Johannesburg Style - Architecture & Society 1880s - 1960s. Cape Town: David Phillip. pp 112

Coetzee, Abel. 1960. Die Afrikaanse Volkskultuur. Cape Town: Balkema. pp 117

Harris, CT, Noëth, JG. 2010. Van seringboom tot kerkgebou : die argitektoniese erfenis van die Gereformeerde Kerke. Krugersdorp: Gereformeerde Kerke in Suid-Afrika. pp 15, 59, 267

Kesting, DP. 1978. Afrikaans Protestantse kerkbou : erfenis en uitdaging. Port Elizabeth: Unpublished PhD. pp