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Harrison's Building Cape Town, Western Cape Robert MacBeth ROBERTSON: Architect

Date: 1903 Type: Unknown Status: Demolished Street: Strand St

(SAA&B May 1905:157) According to the City of Cape Town's Heritage Building Plans Register (2013), the building was on the north-east side of Strand Street, 63 feet [19.38m] from the NW corner of St George's Street. That makes it one of the buildings that was demolished the early 1960s to make way for the Prudential Insurance building. (Arthur Radburn, April 2023) 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 and articles that reference Harrison's Building 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 Johannesburg: Unpublished Ph.D thesis.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 130