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		Dorchester Mansions Central Johannesburg, Gauteng COOK and COWEN: Architect

Date: 1931 Type: Flats Style: Art Deco - Exhibition Style Status: Extant Street: Bree/Rissik Sts   Click to view map Coordinates: 26°12'03.85" S 28°02'29.29" E Alt: 1758m

Condition: neglected; occupied. Address: 234 Bree; 73, 75 Rissik. (SAB May 1931:45) Transcription of Blue Plaque: JOHANNESBURG CITY HERITAGE DORCHESTER MANSIONS This block of flats with shops on the ground floor was designed in 1931 by J.C. Cook & Cowan. The elaborate decoration on the facade, combined with the name of the fashionably grand hotel being built at the time in London, were used to attract wealthy tenants. The decorative plasterwork resembles the striking linear forms used in jewellery of the period, culminating in the diadem which crowns the central bay. The Heritage Portal 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.