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Garlick's Wholesale Warehouse
Cape Town, Western Cape

John PARKER: Architect 1902
FORSYTH and PARKER: Architect extensions 1925

Date:1902 : 1925
Type:Warehouse
Status:Adaptive re-use
Street:St George‘s/Waterkant Sts

 


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Coordinates:
33°55'15.18" S 18°25'25.78" E Alt: 23m

(PSB:124)

In 1925 Forsyth and Parker extended the original eight-storey building by a further three storeys. The builders were Stewart & Cowley. (Walker 2012:85)

The building has been converted into offices.

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.


References:

Parker, Howard. 2015. John Parker, 1866-1921 : architect and mayor of Cape Town. Wellington, New Zealand: Howard Parker. pg 31 ill, 32 ill
Radford, D. 1979. The architecture of the Western Cape, 1838-1901. A study of the impact of Victorian aesthetics and technology on South African architecture. Johannesburg: Unpublished Ph.D thesis. Dept of Arch. University of the Witwatersrand. pg 125
Walker, Michael. 2012. Early architects of Cape Town and their buildings (1820 - 1926) with postcard illustrations, The. St James: Michael Walker. pg 84-85 ill