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Date: 1889 Client: William Gwynne Evans Type: Retail Status: Demolished Street: Pritchard/Rissik Sts

The architect of the building was one RICHTER, it seems, who designed Palace Buildings from the Netherlands; Donaldson and Lindhorst seem to have been appointed architects in residence. The Palace Building was noted for the towers and was known as the Rand Eiffel Tower. The iron weather-vane which surmounted the lesser tower is preserved in the Africana Museum, Johannesburg. (RDM 11 Jan 1957, dem of Palace Bldg; SAAR Jan 1938:571) 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. References: Benjamin, Arnold. 1979. Lost Johannesburg. Johannesburg: Macmillan South Africa (Publishers) (Pty) Ltd. pg 6 Chipkin, Clive M. 1993. Johannesburg Style - Architecture & Society 1880s - 1960s. Cape Town: David Phillip. pg 15 ill, 84 ill, 85 Eliovson, Ezra. n.d.. Johannesburg, The Fabulous City. Cape Town: Howard Timmins. pg 6 Picton-Seymour, Désirée. 1977. Victorian Buildings in South Africa. Cape Town: AA Balkema. pg 303, 304 ill, 317, 318 ill van der Waal, Gerhard-Mark. 1987. From Mining Camp to Metropolis - The buildings of Johannesburg 1886-1940. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council. pg 34 ill, 36