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		Potchefstroom Boys' High School Potchefstroom, North West Piercy James (Patrick) EAGLE: Design Architect PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT of the TRANSVAAL COLONY: Architect

Date: 1904-1905 Type: School Status: Extant   Click to view large map Coordinates: 26°42'31.16" S 27°05'22.56" E Alt: 1345m

In 1993 the school purchased and restored the Magistrates Residence which is now the Headmaster's Residence. Read the history of the school on their website. See also: Buxton Boarding House. Milton and Granton Boarding Houses. --------------------------- "Potchefstroom College, for the higher education of boys, is the principal scholastic establishment of the town. The College was formally opened on January 21st, 1905, by Sir Richard Solomon, K.C.M.G., Attorney-General (then Acting Lieut. -Governor of the Transvaal). It was built by Government on 40 acres of ground presented by the town. The style of architecture of the building is a modified form of Flemish. The architect was Mr. Bevan, late of the Public Works Department." (Source: Transvaal Encyclopedia, 1906:458)