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		Government House Bryntirion, Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng BAKER, MASEY and SLOPER: Architect Ernest Willmott SLOPER: Design Architect

Date: 1903 Type: Official Residence Status: Extant   Click to view map Coordinates: 25°44'18.18" S 28°13'51.05" E Alt: 1401m

Built for the Governor General of the Transvaal Colony (BC 206.223; Jnl ATA Sep 1916:27) 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 Government House Baker, Herbert. 1944. Architecture & personalities. London: Country Life. pg 51-52 Fairbridge, Dorothea. 1924. Gardens of South Africa : with some chapters on practical gardening under South African conditions and some notes on the cultivation of South African wild flowers. Cape Town: Maskew Millar . pg opp.21 Greig, Doreen. 1970. Herbert Baker in South Africa. Cape Town: PURNELL. pg 241 Keath, Michael. 1992. Herbert Baker: Architecture and Idealism 1892 - 1913: The South African Years. Gibraltar: Ashanti Pub. Ltd.. pg 116-119 Viney, Graham with Proust, Alain (Photography). 1987. Colonial houses of South Africa. Cape Town: Struik-Winchester. pg 245-255