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Date: 1894 Type: Opera House Status: Demolished 1930s Street: Grand Parade, c/o Darling Street and Grave Street (later renamed Parliament St)   Click to view large map Coordinates: Alt: 28m

(Pryce-Lewis list item 2 471) A limited competition for the design of the Opera House was won by George Alexander. He was one of three architects invited to participate, the other two were Charles FREEMAN and George RANSOME. This building was replaced by the Grand Central Post Office. References: Johnson, Brian Andrew. 1987. Domestic architecture at the Cape, 1892-1912 : Herbert Baker, his associates and his contemporaries. Pretoria: UNISA (unpublished MA thesis). pg 360 Picton-Seymour, Désirée. 1977. Victorian Buildings in South Africa. Cape Town: AA Balkema. pg 57, 82 ill 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 Johannesburg: Unpublished Ph.D thesis.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 110