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Date: c. 1865 : 1870 : 1904 : 1940s Client: A Zeederberg | H P Hablutzel | Roy Garlick Trust Type: Homestead Status: Extant Street: 94 Main Rd   Click to view large map Coordinates: 34°07'14.20" S 18°27'20.14" E Alt: 10m

Lot 3 was initially sold out of whaler J. H. Muller's deceased estate to W. J. Langeveld in June 1842. In early 1844 Langeveld was declared insolvent and it was sold to William McDonald. The ground passed steadily down the line: Messrs James Bell (1846-47), Francis Pocock (1847-1853), Johannes Stukeris (1853-1865), Adriaan Zeederberg (1865-1867) and Heinrich Pieter Hablutzel in October 1867. Zeederberg was a member of the successful Mailcoach Pioneers. Heinrich Peter Hablutzel (1822-1902) lived here from 1870 to 1902 and altered the house in 1870. The most eminent owner of the Homestead was the first Archbishop of Cape Town, William West Jones (1839-1908). He bought it from the deceased estate of Heinrich Pieter Hablutzel in 1902. It was his holiday home until his death in May 1908. His wife Emily stayed there for some five years until she sold it to Mary Cathcart in 1913. After Mary Cathcart's (1913) ownership, the home passed through the hands of Nicholas Prettijohn (1916), George Swart (1920), and on his death in 1934 to his son Arthur and daughter Mary. During Nicholas Prettijohn's ownership (1916-1920) the Homestead stables were demolished when the Council expropriated the ground for the building of Ley Road. The Roy Garlick Trust Co. owned The Homestead in the 1940s and had extensive renovations done, which included a new concrete slab over garages and the construction of a completely new stairway. Compiled by Paul v d Merwe from: (1) A heritage survey of the built environment and other conservation-worthy objects in Lakeside, Muizenberg and St James. Commissioned by Muizenberg Historical Conservation Society. Compiled by H. Fransen. 2011. (2) Michael Walker: St James: Rovos Rail's Elegant Guesthouses, p5.