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Post Office - First Johannesburg, Gauteng Johannes Victor LINDHORST: Architect

Date: 1887 Type: Post Office Status: Demolished 1895 Street: Rissik St

This building was demolished in 1895 to make way for the new General Post Office designed by HCP WERNER under Sytze WIERDA of the PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT (Picton-Seymour, 1977:318) Books and articles that reference Post Office - First Benjamin, Arnold. 1979. Lost Johannesburg. Johannesburg: Macmillan South Africa (Publishers) (Pty) Ltd. pg 68, 70 ill Picton-Seymour, Désirée. 1977. Victorian Buildings in South Africa. Cape Town: AA Balkema. pg 318 ill, 323 Picton-Seymour, Désirée. 1989. Historical Buildings in South Africa. Cape Town: Struikhof Publishers. pg 149 van der Waal, Gerhard-Mark. 1987. From Mining Camp to Metropolis - The buildings of Johannesburg 1886-1940. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council. pg 49, 55