Contact Artefacts please if you have any comments or more information regarding this record.	Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon		Bear Lodge Upper Houghton, Johannesburg, Gauteng Robert HOWDEN: Architect

Date: 1906 Type: Homestead Status: Extant Street: 17 Elm Street   Click to view map Coordinates: 26°10'28.21" S 28°03'36.76" E Alt: 1757m

Transcription of Blue Plaque: JOHANNESBURG CITY HERITAGE BEAR LODGE The elegantly neoclassic Bear Lodge was designed in 1906 by Robert Howden for Henry John Hofmeyr. Prominent in politics and education, Hofmeyr served as Chairman of the King Edward VII School Governing Body for twenty-five successive years, was Mayor of Johannesburg in 1910/1911, and was elected the first President of the Convocation of Wits University in 1923. Subsequent owners of the house incude architect Saul Margo and Upper Houghton heritage champion and architect Rocco Bosman. The Heritage Portal The building was a National Monument and is now a Provincial Heritage Site.