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		Jeppe High School for Boys Jeppestown, Johannesburg, Gauteng PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT of the TRANSVAAL COLONY: Architect John RALSTON: Architect William Henry BEVAN: Architect Piercy James (Patrick) EAGLE: Architect

Date: 1906 Type: School Status: Extant   Click to view map Coordinates: 26°12'07.12" 28°04'54.71" Alt: 1750m

(Afr Archt Jul 1911: iii; SAMBF Jnl Nov 1906:23; SAWW 1908) Originally called Jeppestown High School. Greig (1971:136) ascribes the design of the school to EAGLE, at the time he was working under BEVAN. In RALSTON's biography it states that he won the competition to design the school for the PWD. Declared a National Monument in 1990 it is now a Provincial Heritage Site.. 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 Jeppe High School for Boys Fisher, RC, Le Roux, SW & Maré, E (Eds). 1998. Architecture of the Transvaal. Pretoria: UNISA. pg 128, 175-196, 128, 175-196, 214, 215, 216 Greig, Doreen. 1971. A Guide to Architecture in South Africa. Cape Town: Howard Timmins. pg 136