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Date: 1894-1905 Type: Town Hall Status: Extant Street: Darling/Corporation/Longmarket/Parade Sts   Click to view map Coordinates: 33°55'31.14" S 18°25'25.59" E Alt: 19m

A portion of furnishings, paneling and furniture were done by John CRAN. (SAA&B Jan 1905:78; SAA&B Jul 1905:200) Transcript of the wording of the inauguration plaque. Inauguration of the City Hall Building Capetown 25 July 1905 By His Worship the Mayor in the two hundred and forty eighth year since the appointment of Burgher Senators or Councillors the sixty sixth year from the Constitution by Government Ordinance of the Municipal Board of Commissioners and Wardmasters and the thirty eighth year of the reconstruction by Statue and of the Administration of the Local Affairs of the City of Capetown by a Mayor and Councillors Mr Councillor Hyman Liberman J.P. Mayor Sir William Thorne Kt M.L.A. J.P. Deputy Mayor Councillors A R McKenzie Chevalier T J O’Reilly       KSG, CMG, JP G Cunningham F L St Leger C Matthews JP P J Bosman W Irwin J Bartlett W S Woodhead JP C F Sedgwick T Harris Dr A Abdurahman C Friedlander W D Baxter M Alexander       MA, LLB, JP A Hilliard Town Clerk JR Finch City Treasurer CB Martin City Engineer J Cook AM Inst. CE Water Engineer RO Wynne-Roberts M Inst. CE Electrical Engineer W F Long M Inst. EE Medical Officer of Health A Jasper Anderson MA MB Oxon Architects Reid and Green Builders Howard and Scott Visit City of Cape Town for more photos, a 3D Model and a Virtual Tour. Submitted by Lila Komnick. All truncated references not fully cited below are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon. Books that reference City Hall Cole, DI. 2002. The building stones of Cape Town : a geological walking tour. Cape Town: Council for Geoscience. pg 21-24 Duncan, Paul & Proust, Alain. 2013. Hidden Cape Town. Cape Town: Random House Struik. pg 62-73 Gaylard, Shaun & McDougall, Brett . 2022. RSA 365 : 365 Drawings of South African Architecture. Johannesburg: Blank Ink Design. pg 82-83 ill, 83 Greig, Doreen. 1971. A Guide to Architecture in South Africa. Cape Town: Howard Timmins. pg 99 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 Johannesburg: Unpublished Ph.D thesis.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 248-249 Walker, Michael. 2012. Early architects of Cape Town and their buildings (1820 - 1926) with postcard illustrations, The. St James: Michael Walker. pg 33