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Date: 1895 Type: Homestead Status: Extant Street: Princess of Wales Terrace   Click to view map Coordinates: 26°10'45.62" S 28°02'51.52 E

(Aron 1972:106-7) Currently (2012) an hotel Wording on the National Monuments Council Plaque SUNNYSIDE BUILT BY EARLY JOHANNESBURG MINING ENGINEER HENNEN JENNINGS (1854 – 1905) WHO LIVED HERE 1895 – 1898 RESIDENCE OF LORD MILNER: 1901 – 1905 ON OCCASION ALSO THE RESIDENCE OF LORD SELBORNE, DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CONNAUGHT AND VISCOUNT GLADSTONE ARCHITECT FRANK EMLEY F.R.I.B.A. GEBOU VIR DIE VROEË JOHANNESBURGSE MYNINGENIEUR HENNEN JENNINGS (1854 – 1905) WAT VAN 1895 TOT 1898 HIER GEWOON HET LATER BEWOON DEUR LORD MILNER: 1901 – 1905 EN BY GELEENTHEID OOK DEUR LORD SELBORNE, DIE HERTOG EN HERTOGIN VAN CONNAUGHT EN BURGGRAAF GLADSTONE ARGITEK FRANK EMLEY F.R.I.B.A. _______________________________________ Wording on the Parktown & Westcliff Heritage Trust plaque SUNNYSIDE PARK The house was built in 1895 for Hennen Jennings, a mining engineer. In March 1901 it became the official residence of Sir Alfred (later Lord) Milner, British High Commissioner, and the man generally blamed for the outbreak of war. As governor of the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies, Milner introduced civil administration more than a year before the war ended and was responsible for the post war construction. He left South Africa in 1905. 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.