BAKER and MASEY

Architect

The partnership agreement (Kendall & Earle Gift, UCT Libr BC 206) between H BAKER and FE MASEY dates from 1899, changing in 1906 to include FK Kendall's name (BAKER, MASEY & KENDALL). Masey joined Baker in about 1897 as an assistant. In partnership the two executed a number of significant buildings in Cape Town. They worked together for about five years before Baker moved to Johannesburg in 1902. Masey remained in Cape Town and ran the Cape Town office though with Baker keeping a close watch on it. The branch in Johannesburg was known first as BAKER & MASEY and then as BAKER, MASEY & SLOPER, until Masey left for Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). For a few years it was known as BAKER, MASEY & FLEMING. The last years of the partnership were unhappy years for Masey and there was a certain amount of acrimony after the partnership had ended which hinged on the obtaining of work and sharing of fees. This may have been the cause of Masey's discontent in Cape Town.

(BLB 1910-1912 ? letters between B & M; Greig 1970; Rennie 1978, 1983; Baker, Kendall & Earle Gift, UCT Ms libr BC 206)

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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Cape Explosives Works: 1903. Somerset West, Western Cape - Architect

Cathedral of St Michael and St Andrew: 1863-1866 : 1904-1906. Bloemfontein, Free State - Architect

Church of St Barnabas: 1896. Tamboers Kloof, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

City and Civil Service Club: 1896. Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Dale College: 1877 : 1906. Qonce (King William's Town), Eastern Cape - Architect

Diocesan College, physics lab: 1905. Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Diocesan College, School House: 1900. Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Double-storeyed villa for Lyon Polhenuis: 1902. Claremont, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Findlay & Co: 1900. Central, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Groot Constantia - Second Restoration: 1902. Constantia, Western Cape - Architect

Guardian Assurance Co Bldg: 1901-1902. Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Honoured Dead Memorial: 1902. Kimberley, Northern Cape - Architect

House Alpheus F Williams - Vergenoeg: 1936. Muizenberg, Western Cape - Architect

House Barry - Hurstcliff - Trevadlock: 1903. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

House JC Molteno: 1900. Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

House Kuhlman: 1903. Mountain View, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

House Mrs Given-Wilson: 1910. Yeoville, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

House R Stuttaford: Lidcote: 1904. Kenilworth, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

House Sammy Marks - Hatherley: 1902. Muizenberg, Western Cape - Architect

House WJ Wybergh: Inanda House: 1902. Inanda, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Houses of Parliament extensions: 1906. Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Juta's Building: 1900. Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Kelvin Grove Country Club: 1895 : 1899. Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Lightfoot Memorial Fountain: 1907 : 2018-2019. Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect 1907

Marks Building: 1903-5. Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Michaelhouse School Chapel: 1908. Balgowan, KwaZulu-Natal - Architect

National Mutual Life Association of Australasia: 1905 : 1933. Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Parliament House of Assembly: 1910. Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Rhodes Building: 1902 : c1950. Central, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Seamen's Institute: 1904. Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

St Alban's Cathedral: 1905-1909 : 1958. Central, Pretoria, Gauteng - Architect

St Andrew's School, Lower School House: 1909. Makhanda (Grahamstown), Eastern Cape - Architect

St Anne's Diocesan School, chapel: 1908. Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal - Architect

St Dunstan's Anglican Church: 1909. Benoni, Gauteng - Architect

St George's Cathedral: 1897-1911 : 1930 : 1957-1963. Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

St George's Grammar School: 1904 : 1949-1950. Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

St John's Chapel: 1922. Durban, KwaZulu-Natal - Architect

St Mary's Church: 1909. Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal - Architect

St Paul's Church: 1878-1880 : c1900. Central, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

St Philip's Church: 1898. District Six, Woodstock, Western Cape - Architect

St Saviour's Church: 1850 : 1871 : 1904. Claremont, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Standard Bank: 1905. Malmesbury, Western Cape - Architect

Vredenburgh Cottages for CJ Rhodes: 1900. Stellenbosch, Western Cape - Architect

Wellington Fruit Growers building: 1902 : 1934. Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

WH Struben, Koornhoop (restoration): 1896. Mowbray, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Books citing BAKER and MASEY

Crump, Alan & Van Niekerk, Raymund. 1988. Public sculptures & reliefs Cape Town. Cape Town: Clifton Publications. pp 28

Cumming-George, L. 1934. Architecture in South Africa - Volume Two. Cape Town: The Speciality Press of S.A. Ltd.. pp 77-78

Greig, Doreen. 1971. A Guide to Architecture in South Africa. Cape Town: Howard Timmins. pp 80, 96, 98-99, 100, 103-104, 107, 129, 162-163, 166, 194-195, 213, 215

Rennie, John for CPIA. 1978. The Buildings of Central Cape Town 1978. Volume Two : Catalogue. Cape Town: Cape Provincial Institute of Architects. pp 216-217

Walker, Michael. 2015. Old hotels of Cape Town (1890-1911), The : A history long forgotten, seldom told. St James: Published Privately. pp 46