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		Officers' Houses Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng DEPARTEMENT PUBLIEKE WERKEN - ZUID-AFRIKAANSCHE REPUBLIEK: Architect Klaas (jnr) VAN RIJSSE: Design Architect John Johnston KIRKNESS: Contractor

Date: 1890s Type: Officers' Quarters Status: Extant Street: 1-15 Artillery Street

These small buildings have all the attributes of Republican architecture. Although each of the houses is similar in concept, the corner house, allotted to Colonel Stefaans Trichardt, is the most spectacular, with turrets and gables and a corrugated-iron roof pierced with airvents and spiked with finials. A stoep shelters the cool rooms within, and broad steps lead down to the diminutive front garden. (Picton-Seymour, 1989: 169) 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 that reference Officers' Houses Alberts, Paul. 1992. South African military buildings photographed : an historical heritage. Cape Town: The Gallery Press. pg 48, 48-49 ill