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		Cogill's Hotel Wynberg, Western Cape Anthony (Antonie) Mauritz DE WITT: Architect pre-1908 William Hood GRANT: Architect 1938

Date: pre-1886 : 1938 Type: Hotel Status: Demolished Street: Main Rd

(SAWW 1910; SAB Oct 1938:65; SA Archt Mar 1940:444, 445, 447; AB&E Aug 1938:17?) Originally designed by AM DE WITT before 1908 it was apparently rebuilt in 1938 to a design by WH GRANT. Walker (2015: 67) mentions an advertisement for this hotel placed in 1886. Dennis Edwards & Co included it in their Cape Town Guide of 1897 (p109) as one of the leading hotels in Cape Town at the time. 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 Cogill's Hotel Keen, Adele. 1990. Under Devil's Peak : some old houses and the people who lived in them in Mowbray, Rosebank and Rondebosch (2nd enlarged issue). Cape Town: Private. pg 0pp. p 11 Walker, Michael. 2012. Early architects of Cape Town and their buildings (1820 - 1926) with postcard illustrations, The. St James: Michael Walker. pg 48-49 Walker, Michael. 2015. Old hotels of Cape Town (1890-1911), The : A history long forgotten, seldom told. St James: Published Privately. pg 32, 32 ill, 67, 68