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Date: 1938 : 1969 Client: Maurice Lipschitz Type: Homestead Style: Cape Dutch Revival Status: Extant Street: 11 Seventh Avenue   Click to view large map Coordinates: 26°09'38.05" S 28°03'44.12" E Alt: 1684m

(RAU doc) HOOGTERP designed Noordhoek at the corner of 7th Avenue and 4th Street Lower Houghton; his contribution to the posh suburb below the ridge – not a white flat-roofed cubist villa associated with l'Esprit nouveau via MARTIENSSEN – but a white double-storey gable house in stockbroker’s Cape Dutch Revival for Maurice Lipschitz, member of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange: teak windows, half-shutters, north stoep and a giant south gable to address the driveway entrance. [CHIPKIN, CLIVE M. 2008. Johannesburg Transition - Architecture & Society from 1950. Johannesburg: STE Publishers. p. 64.] Alterations were made to the house in 1969 by FRASER + LLOYD. The house has been restored and is in beautiful, pristine condition.(2011). Information kindly sent to us by Marius Lombard. Transcription of Johannesburg Heritage Foundation Blue Plaque LOWER HOUGHTON HERITAGE NOORDHOEK Stockbroker and influential gold commentator Maurice Lipschitz commissioned John Albert Hoogterp to design Noordhoek in 1938. Hoogterp had established his career working with Baker on the Union Buildings, and proceeded to numerous civic projects in then Northern Rhodesia and Kenya. The enormous scale of the house reflects its owner’s wealth and aspirations. It was designed in the fashionable style of the time, Cape Dutch Revival, and set on a double Houghton acre. Lipschitz would go on to own Lenin, one of South Africa’s most successful racehorses. (The Heritage Portal) References: Chipkin, Clive M. 2008. Johannesburg Transition - Architecture & Society 1950 - 2000. Johannesburg: STE Publishers. pg 64 MacMillan, Allister & Rosenthal, Eric. 1948. Homes of the Golden City. Cape Town: Hortors. pg 169 van der Waal, Gerhard-Mark. 1987. From Mining Camp to Metropolis - The buildings of Johannesburg 1886-1940. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council. pg 235