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Date: 1907 Type: Town Hall Style: English Renaissance Status: Extant   Click to view map Coordinates: 28°16'12.55" S 29°07'29.01" E

(SAMBF Jnl Jan 1907:23) The Town Hall was declared a National Monument in 1983 and is now a Provincial Heritage Site. Description from Government Gazette 9007 of 23 Dec 1983: “This impressive red brick building, which was designed by the architects Price and Agutter, was erected by the builders Kelly and Anderson of Johannesburg. The cornerstone of the building was laid by Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams on 2 August 1907. The Town Hall was officially inaugurated on 7 September 1908.” 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 Town Hall Greig, Doreen. 1971. A Guide to Architecture in South Africa. Cape Town: Howard Timmins. pg 128 Hillebrand, Melanie. 1975. Aspects of architecture in Natal, 1880-1914. Pietermaritzburg: Unpublished MA. Dept Fine Art and History of Art, University of Natal. pg 155 Picton-Seymour, Désirée. 1989. Historical Buildings in South Africa. Cape Town: Struikhof Publishers. pg 129 Richardson, Deirdré. 2001. Historic Sites of South Africa. Cape Town: Struik Publishers. pg 178