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		Valkenberg Psychiatric Hospital Observatory, Cape Town, Western Cape Sydney MITCHELL: Design Architect Henry [Harry] Sidon GREAVES: Supervising Architect John Stockwin CLELAND: Architect possible alterations

Date: 1899 Type: Hospital Status: Extant   Click to view large map Coordinates: 33°56'22.17" S 18°28'52.67" E Alt: 16m

(FRIBA nom papers 1925) In earlier times referred to as the Valkenberg Lunatic Asylum. The original hospital building was proclaimed a National Monument in 1991 and is now a Provincial Heritage Site. Sydney MITCHELL, architect to the Scottish Board of Lunacy in Edinburgh, was appointed by this body to design the Valkenberg Asylum in Cape Town for the Valkenberg Association in about 1892, supervised by HS GREAVES. JS CLELAND may have made alterations at a later date but this is unconfirmed. References: Walker, Michael. 2012. Early architects of Cape Town and their buildings (1820 - 1926) with postcard illustrations, The. St James: Michael Walker. pg 28