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Date: 1899 Type: Flats with shops to street Status: Extant Street: 217 Main Street   Click to view large map Coordinates: Alt: 125m

See more photographs Housed the printing presses for P. M. Cross. "Built in 1899 for commercial purposes, this building reflects a style popular throughout South Africa at the time. The plate-glass display windows are well protected from the elements by the elegant wrought-iron verandah, enticing customers into the shop. There are attractive small Victorian tiles at the entrance and rooms still have their original steel-pressed ceilings. It is the last intact double-storey commercial building left in Paarl from the late Victorian period." (A Walking Tour of the Historical Heart of Paarl) References: Fransen, Hans. 2004. The old buildings of the Cape. A survey of extant architecture from before c1910 in the area of Cape Town - Calvinia - Colesberg - Uitenhage. Johannesburg & Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers. pg 265 Raymond, Cathy . n.d.. A Walking Tour of the Historical Heart of Paarl. Paarl: Drakenstein Heritage Foundation. pg