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Date: c1900 Client: The Rt Honourable CJ Rhodes Type: Homestead Status: Extant   Click to view map Coordinates: 33°57'13.05" S 18°27'58.72" E Alt: 50m

Welgelegen was built among the trees in the grounds of Groote Schuur as a gift from Rhodes to a family who had been kind to him in Kimberley when he was young, the Curreys. (Greig. 1970:61-62) It is now owned by the University of Cape Town and houses the university's Communication and Marketing Department. (Pryce-Lewis list 12 538) Books that reference House Currey - Welgelegen Baker, H. 1934. Cecil Rhodes by his architect. London: Oxford University Press. pg opp 43 ill, 44 Baker, Herbert. 1944. Architecture & personalities. London: Country Life. pg 35 Duncan, Paul & Proust, Alain. 2013. Hidden Cape Town. Cape Town: Random House Struik. pg 126-129 Fairbridge, Dorothea. 1924. Gardens of South Africa : with some chapters on practical gardening under South African conditions and some notes on the cultivation of South African wild flowers. Cape Town: Maskew Millar . pg opp. 28 Greig, Doreen. 1970. Herbert Baker in South Africa. Cape Town: PURNELL. pg 61-62, 63 ill Keath, Michael. 1992. Herbert Baker: Architecture and Idealism 1892 - 1913: The South African Years. Gibraltar: Ashanti Pub. Ltd.. pg 69, 70, 196 Simons, Phillida Brooke, Proust, Alain & Martin, Leni. 1996. Groote Schuur : Great Granary to Stately Home. Cape Town: Fernwood Press. pg 15, 24