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Bloch and Co Building Cape Town, Western Cape PERRY and LIGHTFOOT: Architect 1938

Date: 1938 Type: Offices Style: Italianate Status: Extant   Click to view map Coordinates: 33°55'20.79" S 18°25'16.69" E

(SAB Mar 1938:71) Tripartite bays to St George's Mall and quintipartite bays to Hout Street. In Florentine Palazzo manner having rusticated hewn granite plinth with double storeyed coursed stucco base, smooth plastered 4 storeyed body capped with giant fine moulded egg-and-dart and block modillion cornice and additional attic. Now serves as the main circulation for the St George's Centre together with St George's St 78 and Hout St 15. References: Rennie, John for CPIA. 1978. The Buildings of Central Cape Town 1978. Volume Two : Catalogue. Cape Town: Cape Provincial Institute of Architects. pg 111 item 50.51 Shorten, John R. 1963. Cape Town : A record of the Mother City from the earliest days to the present. Cape Town: JR Shorten in association with Shorten and Smith Publications. pg 456 ill.; 458