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House Lipschitz - Noordhoek
Houghton, Johannesburg, Gauteng

John Albert HOOGTERP: Architect 1938
FRASER + LLOYD: Architect 1969

Date:1938 : 1969
Client:Maurice Lipschitz
Type:Homestead
Style:Cape Dutch Revival
Status:Extant
Street:11 Seventh Avenue

 


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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 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)


Books that reference House Lipschitz - Noordhoek

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