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Date: 1890 Type: Homestead Style: Victorian Status: Extant Street: 101 Voortrek Street   Click to view map Coordinates: 34°01'25.29" S 20°26'17.39" E Alt: 130m

Old DR Mission Parsonage. A five-bay single-storey set well back from the street, with a simple veranda, two rooms deep with the corresponding high roof, french windows on the corners. Much restored, it retains two enormously tall palm trees in front. [Fransen p460.] Books and articles that reference Voortrek Street, No 101 Fransen, Hans. 2004. The old buildings of the Cape. A survey of extant architecture from before c1910 in the area of Cape Town - Calvinia - Colesberg - Uitenhage. Johannesburg & Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers. pg 460