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Cape Town City Municipal Workshops
Cape Town, Western Cape

Edwin Austin COOKE: Architect

Date:1900
Type:Offices and Warehouse
Style:Industrial Archaeology
Status:Extant

 


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Coordinates:
33°55'39.37" S 18°25'33.23" E Alt: 15m

(SAWW 1908; AB&E Sep 1922:1; Pryce-Lewis and Stewart Harris list 5108)

This is very probably the Daniel Mills and Sons, Grain Store designed by E A Cooke.

Extensive two storey offices and stores within the main warehouse space. Marked on Thom's survey c1895 "Granary".
(Rennie 1978:349)


Books that reference Cape Town City Municipal Workshops

Radford, D. 1979. The architecture of the Western Cape, 1838-1901. A study of the impact of Victorian aesthetics and technology on South African architecture. Johannesburg: Unpublished Ph.D thesis. Dept of Arch. University of the Witwatersrand. pg 113
Rennie, John for CPIA. 1978. The Buildings of Central Cape Town 1978. Volume Two : Catalogue. Cape Town: Cape Provincial Institute of Architects. pg 349 item 110.11